What Does 2 Chronicles 32:15 Mean in the King James?
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Hezekiah’s name means “YHWH strengthens,” while the threat equates strength with whoever holds the people.
THE MEANING
A threatening voice tells you that what has captured others must hold you too, making domination feel final. The Hebrew word for “deliver” describes rescue as being pulled from a grip, so the disputed question is whether that hand has the last word.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that because this power has held others, it must be impossible for you to be delivered from it.
THE ROOT
לְהַצִּיל
lehatsil
GROWS FROM
נצל
natsal
To snatch away, rescue, or pull free from a grasp.
“deliver” in this verse is lehatsil. The speaker uses this word twice while asking whether anyone can pull a people out of his hand. Rescue here means removal from the captor’s hold, not merely surviving within it.
ALSO GROWS
hitsil: He rescued or delivered.
הִצִּיל
The active form makes the act of pulling someone out explicit.
nitsal: Was rescued; escaped.
נִצַּל
This form shows the other side of the same movement: a person is no longer held.
תַּאֲמִינוּ
ta’aminu
GROWS FROM
אמן
aman
To be firm, steady, or reliable.
“believe” in this verse is ta’aminu. The speaker is not only arguing about power; he is pressing on where your trust rests. The root carries the sense of placing weight on what seems firm, and the taunt tries to make the captor’s claim feel immovable.
ALSO GROWS
emunah: Trust; steadiness, leaning your full weight on what is reliable.
אֱמוּנָה
This branch reveals the kind of trust the speaker is trying to redirect toward his own claim.
amen: Firm; truly; so be it.
אָמֵן
The word’s sense of firmness echoes the demand that the threat be accepted as final.
חִזְקִיָּהוּ
Ḥizqiyyahu
GROWS FROM
חזק
ḥazaq
To be strong or to strengthen; the name means “YHWH strengthens.”
The speaker names Hezekiah as the one trying to persuade the people, and the name itself carries a different account of strength. The verse places that name beside the boast without making the name a guarantee of safety.
ALSO GROWS
ḥazaq: Strong.
חָזָק
This branch names the strength the speaker claims belongs only to the captor.
ḥizzeq: Strengthened; made strong.
חִזֵּק
This branch echoes the name’s claim about where strength comes from.
THE PATTERN
A captor’s claim that its hand is final is answered by deliverance that takes people out of its grip.
Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;THE THREAD
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.The Hebrew word behind “delivereth” shares the root נצל (natsal) with the taunt’s repeated “deliver.” The boast says no one can pull a people free; this verse describes the LORD hearing and rescuing from every trouble.
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