Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 32:11
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
11. persuade ] Or “entice”; cp. 1Ch 21:1 (“provoked” for the same Heb. word).
to give over yourselves ] R.V. to give you over.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine, and by thirst,…. Suggesting that would be their case if they did not surrender:
saying, the Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? [See comments on Isa 36:15].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(11) Doth not Hezekiah persuade you.Is not Hezekiah inciting you (2Ki. 18:32; 1Ch. 21:1). The, verb recurs in 2Ch. 32:15.
To give over yourselves . . . by thirst.In order to deliver you to dying . . . by thirst. A softening down of the coarse expression recorded in 2Ki. 18:27. Esarhaddon in the record of his Egyptian campaign uses similar language: siege-works against him I constructed, and food and water, the life of their souls, I cut off.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Ver. 11. Doth not Hezekiah persuade (or deceive) you?] See on 2Ki 18:29-30 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
deliver = rescue.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
to give over: 2Ki 18:27, Isa 36:12, Isa 36:18
The Lord our God: 2Ch 32:15, 2Ki 18:30, 2Ki 19:10, Psa 3:2, Psa 11:1-3, Psa 22:8, Psa 42:10, Psa 71:11, Mat 27:43
Reciprocal: 2Ki 17:4 – bound him 2Ki 18:19 – What confidence 2Ki 18:29 – Let not Isa 36:14 – General Nah 1:7 – that Nah 3:14 – Draw Act 18:4 – persuaded
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ch 32:11-12. To give over yourselves to die by famine, &c. It appears by this he did not intend to storm the city, but to keep them pent up till they were starved. Hath not Hezekiah taken away his high places, &c. He speaks thus through his ignorance of the divine law, which enjoined them to worship only at Jerusalem.