2 Chronicles 32:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

I and my

Daniel 5:19

Were the gods

General references

2 Kings 19:11

Bible References

I and my

In the days of Pekah king of Israel,

Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years.

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

“Is not Calno like Carchemish,
Or Hamath like Arpad,
Or Samaria like Damascus?

Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

The king reflected and said, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?’

Because of the grandeur which He bestowed on him, all the peoples, nations and men of every language feared and trembled before him; whomever he wished he killed and whomever he wished he spared alive; and whomever he wished he elevated and whomever he wished he humbled.

Were the gods

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men’s hands.

Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

But our God is in the heavens;
He does whatever He pleases.

‘Do not tremble and do not be afraid;

Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it?

And you are My witnesses.
Is there any God besides Me,
Or is there any other Rock?
I know of none.’”

Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

You see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of

Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that

gods made with hands are no gods at all.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

General references

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?