2 Chronicles 32 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ After these matters and this trustworthiness, Sanḥ

² And Ḥ

³ and he took counsel with his rulers and mighty men to stop the water from the springs which were outside the city. And they helped him.

⁴ And many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the stream that ran through the land, saying, “Why should the sovereigns of Ashshur come and find much water?”

⁵ And he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and outside of it another wall, and strengthened Millo, the City of Dawiḏ

⁶ And he appointed battle officers over the people, and gathered them to him in the open space at the city gate, and spoke to their heart, saying,

⁷ “Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid nor be cast down before the sovereign of Ashshur, nor before all the army that is with him. For with us there are more than with him.

⁸ “With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is יהוה  our Elohim, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people leaned on the words of Ḥ

⁹ After this Sanḥ

¹⁰ “Thus said Sanḥ

¹¹ ‘Is Ḥ

¹² ‘Has not Ḥ

¹³ ‘Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the mighty ones of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

¹⁴ ‘Who was there among all the mighty ones of those nations that my fathers put under the ban that could deliver his people from my hand, that your Elohim should be able to deliver you from my hand?

¹⁵ ‘And now, do not let Ḥ

¹⁶ And his servants spoke even more against יהוה  Elohim and against His servant Ḥ

¹⁷ And he wrote letters to reproach יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁸ Then they called out with a loud voice in the language of Yehuḏ

¹⁹ And they spoke against the Elohim of Yerushalayim, as against the mighty ones of the people of the earth, the work of men’s hands.

²⁰ And Sovereign Ḥ

²¹ And יהוה  sent a messenger who cut down every mighty brave one, both the leader and the commander in the camp of the sovereign of Ashshur, and he returned shamefaced to his own land, and went into the house of his mighty one, and there some of his own offspring caused him to fall by the sword.

²² Thus יהוה  saved Ḥ

²³ And many brought gifts to יהוה  at Yerushalayim, and presents to Ḥ

²⁴ In those days Ḥ

²⁵ However, Ḥ

²⁶ Then Ḥ

²⁷ And Ḥ

²⁸ and storehouses for the harvest of grain, and wine, and oil, and stalls for all kinds of livestock, and folds for flocks.

²⁹ And he made cities for himself, and possessions of great numbers of flocks and herds, for Elohim gave him much property.

³⁰ And Ḥ

³¹ However with the envoys of the princes of Baḇ

³² And the rest of the acts of Ḥ

³³ So Ḥ