2 Chronicles 32:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the peoples of the earth—products of human hands.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of men's hands.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they spake{H1696} of{H5921} the God{H430} of Jerusalem,{H3389} as of the gods{H430} of the peoples{H5971} of the earth,{H776} which are the work{H4639} of men's{H120} hands.{H3027}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they spake{H1696}{(H8762)} against{H5921} the God{H430} of Jerusalem{H3389}, as against the gods{H430} of the people{H5971} of the earth{H776}, which were the work{H4639} of the hands{H3027} of man{H120}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And they spake agaynst the God off Ierusalem, euen as agaynst the goddes off the nacions vpon earth, which were but the workes of mens hondes.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus they spake against the God of Ierusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, euen the workes of mans hands,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And they spake against the God of Hierusalem, as against the gods of the nations of the earth, whiche were the workes of the handes of men.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of man.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and they speak against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the peoples of the land -- work of the hands of man.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 19:18 : 18 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.
  • Isa 2:8 : 8 Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 What answer will be given to the messengers of the nation? 'The LORD has established Zion, and in her, the afflicted of His people will find refuge.'
  • Isa 37:19 : 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
  • Isa 44:16-20 : 16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire; he roasts meat over it, eats, and is satisfied. He warms himself and says, 'Ah, I am warm; I see the fire.' 17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.' 18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand. 19 No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?' 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Jer 1:16 : 16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.
  • Jer 10:3 : 3 For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.
  • Jer 10:9 : 9 Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz—the work of the craftsman and of the goldsmith. Their clothing is blue and purple, all made by skilled workers.
  • Jer 32:30 : 30 For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have only done what is evil in My eyes since their youth. Indeed, the sons of Israel have only provoked Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
  • Hos 8:5-6 : 5 Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence? 6 This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
  • 2 Chr 6:6 : 6 But I have chosen Jerusalem for My name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule over My people Israel.'
  • 2 Chr 32:13-17 : 13 Do you not know what I and my ancestors have done to the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands able to deliver their land from my hand? 14 Who among all the gods of these nations that my ancestors utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God will be able to deliver you from my hand? 15 Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this way, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my ancestors. How much less will your God save you from my hand? 16 His servants continued to speak against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah. 17 Sennacherib also wrote letters to ridicule the LORD, the God of Israel, and to say against Him, "Just as the gods of the nations of other lands did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand."
  • Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he has stretched out his hand against God and boasts arrogantly against the Almighty. 26 He rushes against Him defiantly, with a sturdy shield for the thickness of his defense.
  • Ps 10:13-14 : 13 Why does the wicked spurn God? He says in his heart, 'You will not call me to account.' 14 But You have seen; for You observe trouble and grief, to repay it by Your hand. The helpless entrusts themselves to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth. 10 Therefore His people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance. 11 They say, 'How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?'
  • Ps 76:1-2 : 1 For the director, with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph, a song. 2 God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.
  • Ps 78:68 : 68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
  • Ps 87:1-3 : 1 A psalm, a song of the sons of Korah: His foundation is on the holy mountains. 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, city of God. Selah.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 6 They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell. 7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: 14 'This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.'
  • Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 16 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Ps 139:19-20 : 19 If only You, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! 20 They speak of You with evil intent; Your adversaries misuse Your name.
  • Deut 4:28 : 28 There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.
  • Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed is anyone who makes a carved or cast idol, an abomination to the LORD, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 'Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 32:13-18
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    78%

    13 Do you not know what I and my ancestors have done to the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands able to deliver their land from my hand?

    14 Who among all the gods of these nations that my ancestors utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God will be able to deliver you from my hand?

    15 Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this way, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my ancestors. How much less will your God save you from my hand?

    16 His servants continued to speak against the LORD God and against His servant Hezekiah.

    17 Sennacherib also wrote letters to ridicule the LORD, the God of Israel, and to say against Him, "Just as the gods of the nations of other lands did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand."

    18 They called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order to capture the city.

  • Isa 37:19
    76%

    19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • 2 Kgs 19:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17 Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.

    18 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • Ps 115:4
    75%

    4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Ps 135:15
    74%

    15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Isa 2:8
    74%

    8 Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • 2 Kgs 18:35
    73%

    35 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'

  • Jer 16:20
    72%

    20 Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • Isa 36:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

    20 Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?

  • 2 Chr 36:19
    72%

    19 They burned the house of God, tore down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, destroying all its valuable articles.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29 But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the towns where they lived.

    30 The men from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

  • Jer 2:28
    70%

    28 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise and save you in your time of trouble, if they can. For as many as your cities are your gods, Judah.

  • Jer 1:16
    70%

    16 I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • Jer 10:11
    70%

    11 Tell them this: 'The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.'

  • Jer 32:32
    70%

    32 It is because of all the evil that the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger. Their kings, princes, priests, prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem have all been guilty.

  • Dan 5:4
    70%

    4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

  • Jer 11:12
    69%

    12 The cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but those gods will not save them in their time of disaster.

  • Deut 32:37
    69%

    37 And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in?

  • 2 Kgs 18:22
    69%

    22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    69%

    8 Therefore, the wrath of the LORD fell upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He made them an object of horror, devastation, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

  • Ps 74:6
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    6 Now they smash all its carved work together with hatchets and hammers.

  • Ps 2:2
    69%

    2 The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18 They abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and started worshiping the Asherah poles and idols. As a result, God's wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their guilt.

  • Ps 135:18
    69%

    18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.

  • Jer 27:19
    69%

    19 For this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the pillars, the bronze sea, the stands, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,

  • Ps 115:8
    69%

    8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  • Deut 4:28
    69%

    28 There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • 2 Chr 32:20
    69%

    20 King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

  • Deut 32:16
    69%

    16 They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices.

  • Neh 6:9
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    9 For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, "Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed." But now, strengthen my hands!

  • Dan 9:12
    68%

    12 He has carried out His words that He spoke against us and our rulers who governed us, bringing on us a great disaster. Nothing like it has ever been done under the entire heaven as what has been done in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 46:6
    68%

    6 They pour out gold from their purses and weigh silver on a scale. They hire a craftsman to make it into a god, and they bow down and even worship it.

  • Acts 7:41
    68%

    41 At that time, they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Ps 73:9
    68%

    9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.

  • Jer 32:36
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    36 Now therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says concerning this city about which you are saying, 'It has been handed over to the king of Babylon through sword, famine, and plague':

  • Zeph 2:11
    68%

    11 The Lord will be awesome to them when He destroys all the gods of the earth. People from every shore and nation will bow down to Him, each from their own place.

  • Neh 2:18
    68%

    18 I told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, "Let us arise and build!" So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

  • 1 Chr 16:26
    68%

    26 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • Deut 29:26
    68%

    26 Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book.

  • 2 Chr 36:16
    68%

    16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people beyond remedy.

  • Isa 40:19
    68%

    19 As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.