2 Chronicles 32:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

The lord

Angel

Cut off all

Job 9:4

Psalm 76:5

The leaders

With shame

Proverbs 11:2

Proverbs 16:18

He was come

2 Kings 19:36

Isaiah 37:37

Bible References

The lord

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.

Angel

And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.

My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.

So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,

And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

Cut off all

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

The leaders

For he says, Are not all my captains kings?

Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!

And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.

And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.

How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;

And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun; and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God;

With shame

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

He was come

So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.