KJV King James Version
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?
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2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
WEB World English Bible
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
ASV American Standard Version
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who are in Thelassar?
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 19
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?
13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest [between] the cherubims, thou art the God, [even] thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
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הַהִצִּ֨ילוּH5337 · na.tsalto rescueאֹתָ֜םH853 · et[Obj.]אֱלֹהֵ֤יH430 · e.lo.himGodהַגּוֹיִם֙H1471 · goynationאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichשִׁחֲת֣וּH7843 · sha.chatto ruinאֲבוֹתַ֔יH1 · avfatherאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]גּוֹזָ֖ןH1470 · go.zanGozanוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]חָרָ֑ןH2771 · cha.ranHaranוְרֶ֥צֶףH7530 · re.tsephRezephוּבְנֵי־H1121 · benson: childעֶ֖דֶןH5729 · e.denEdenאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichבִּתְלַאשָּֽׂר׃H8515 · te.las.sarTelassar
Cross-references
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.Ezekiel 27:23Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?Acts 7:4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.1 Chronicles 5:26And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.Genesis 2:8And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.Genesis 29:4And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? And they said, Of Haran [are] we.2 Kings 18:33-34Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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