2 Chronicles 32

7 “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him. 2 Chronicles 32:8 With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.” I just love this. I think one reason I love it so much is because being strong is just not me. So I love to read the Lord will fight for us. It actually reminds me of what Moses said when God split the red sea. In Exodus 14:14 Moses says: The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still." I really love that God fights for us, because I dont consider myself in the least a fighter so the idea that God will will do the fighting makes me feel so much better. I know some people like a fight or a challenge but not me. Hezekiah seems like such a man of God. The way he went and tore down all the idols and pole, and basically forced the people to serve only God. I wonder if sometimes that is what it takes to force people to trust in the Lord. I really love this part. All that time the King is talking mess, and saying what they would do and then God just annihilated them. 2 Chronicles 32:20 King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to heaven about this. 21 And the Lord sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the commanders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons, his own flesh and blood, cut him down with the sword. I wondered about this part.30 It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the City of David. He succeeded in everything he undertook. 31 But when envoys were sent by the rulers of Babylon to ask him about the miraculous sign that had occurred in the land, God left him to test him and to know everything that was in his heart. I guess I really dont know what it meant. So he did good, but then God left him to test him. Did that means he started to do bad? Was God angry with him now? Did he somehow not acknowledge God? I mist find this out but its not in this chapter. 2 Chronicles 33