2Ki 19:20-37  Save us out of his hand that all may know that you are God alone – Part 2

[Study Aired March 9, 2023]

2Ki 19:20  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2Ki 19:21  This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
2Ki 19:22  Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
2Ki 19:23  By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
2Ki 19:24  I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
2Ki 19:25  Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2Ki 19:26  Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
2Ki 19:27  But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
2Ki 19:28  Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
2Ki 19:29  And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
2Ki 19:30  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2Ki 19:31  For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
2Ki 19:32  Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2Ki 19:33  By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
2Ki 19:34  For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
2Ki 19:35  And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
2Ki 19:36  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2Ki 19:37  And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

The last verse we looked at last week was (Ki 19:19) Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

In this section of Kings (2Ki 19:20-37) we will learn how God answers this prayer of Hezekiah who typifies the elect who cry out to God day and night wanting to be avenged for the blood of the saints that has been spilt out over the years (Rev 6:10, Hab 2:3, Heb 10:37).

Heb 10:35  Cast not away therefore your confidence (Php 1:6), which hath great recompence of reward.
Heb 10:36  For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Heb 10:37  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

Rev 6:10  And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Hezekiah’s prayer is symbolic of how we sign and cry for the abominations of this world and are heard because of our fear and reverence toward God (Heb 5:7) that he has caused in us through the fiery trials of this life that make it possible for us to be received of God (Eze 9:4, 1Pe 4:12, Heb 12:6).

2Ki 19:20  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
2Ki 19:21  This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

The “LORD God of Israel” hears our prayers and answers them “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (Eph 3:20) when we are brought to that place of being abased as Hezekiah was (Mat 23:12, Jas 4:6, the prayer of untried faith does not receive anything from God Jas 1:5-8).

Eph 3:20  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Mat 23:12  And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Jas 1:5  If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Jas 1:6  But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering [tried faith 1Pe 1:7]. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed [and he that is not driven by the flesh, less and less is like a sea of glass mingled with fire (Rev 4:6) ].
Jas 1:7  For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Hezekiah is a type of the church being called “The virgin the daughter of Zion” and is the way God sees the bride of Christ now through our Lord (2Co 11:2, Rev 19:7, Rev 3:4)

2Co 11:2  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Rev 3:4  Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Christ alone is able to “make thine enemies thy footstool” and make us worthy (Mat 22:44) by setting us free from sin (Joh 8:36) as our sins typified by Sennacherib’s are laughed to scorn, “laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee“. This life long process of becoming stedfastly confident and more than a conqueror through Christ is promised to God’s elect who in time become persuaded of God’s faithfulness and power, something that is achieved through a process of having our faith tried repeatedly through this life (Rom 8:38, Act 14:22).

Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Act 14:22  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

We shake our heads in dismay at our former conversation in this world (Eph 2:2) as Hezekiah did for ever having tried to make some sort of deal with Sennacherib “the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee“. We thank God for the mercy that he has shown to us as a kind of first fruits who are being given the power to put off that former conversation little and by little as God gives us victory or growth in our heavens through Christ the vine, who God’s first fruits are hoping in and seeking (Rom 11:30-31, Jer 29:13, Mat 6:33).

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.

2Ki 19:22  Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Sennacherib’s reproach and blasphemy against the nation of  Judah was “even against the Holy One of Israel” and God is showing us that same principle that we find in (Act 9:4-5) that tells us that when we do it unto the least of these we do it unto Christ himself whether good or bad (Mat 25:40).

Act 9:4  And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Act 9:5  And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

2Ki 19:23  By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his bordersH7093, and into the forest of his Carmel.
2Ki 19:24  I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

The words “With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains” of  Sennacherib is symbollic of how sin wants to rule over us because it is at the door of our hearts, but we will rule over it through Christ who is the mountain that we look to for deliverance from our enemies within and without (Gen 4:7, Psa 121:1).

What Satan wants to attack specifically in our lives is symbolized by this sentence “to the sides of (Lebanon – whiteness), and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his (Carmel – fruitful field)”. Satan’s goal is to always try to defile the temple of God and destroy the fruitful field of our life by corrupting it with lies (Mat 13:27-30). Cutting down “cedar trees” , and “choice fir trees” is referring to men who are as trees (Mar 8:24) that are cut down and sifted by the wicked one to become proselytes, twofold more the child of hell than yourselves (Mat 23:15). Entering into the “lodgings of his borders H7093” is referring to the extremities of the land and symbolizes for us how Satan like a roaring lion tries to cut us off in the area of our land [our bodies] where we are the weakest. We counter these attacks by humbling ourselves under His mighty hand, as we cast all our cares upon him, and look well to the flock to protect it against all such attacks, the strong bearing the weak (1Pe 5:6-9, Heb 13:17 CLV, Rom 15:1).

1Pe 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
1Pe 5:7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

borders H7093 qêts kates  Contracted from H7112; an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after: –  + after, (utmost) border, end, [in-] finite, X process.

Isaiah’s recounting of Sennacherib’s boastful claim in his flesh with these words “I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt” further demonstrating the mind of a man being controlled by the man of perdition on the throne of his heart, whose idols within that perverted heart have been answered by those things which he has accomplished in the earth “I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt“.

2Ki 19:25  Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
2Ki 19:26  Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Sennacherib is God’s sword who was given those victories in his flesh (Psa 17:13), and it is God who has ordained the things that have been determined from the foundation of the world according to the counsel of His will.

Psa 17:13  Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

2Ki 19:24  I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Isaiah goes on to declare what God wants Hezekiah to hear in regards to Sennacherib “Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it?” in regard to Sennacherib’s boastful claim that “I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places“. In other words we don’t have free moral agency and God is the one who has formed the light and the darkness, and the peace and the evil (Isa 45:7), and “Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up“. These were the conditions that God created to his glory and reminds us of through the prophet Isaiah’s message to Hezekiah.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

2Ki 19:27  But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

The Lord continues to drive this point home of His sovereignty to the proud and arrogant Sennacherib within “But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me“. These words spoken about Sennacherib cannot be heeded as he represents our old man of sin that must be destroyed by the brightness of Christ’s coming (2Th 2:8). The verses in (Rev 2:12-13) are words for God’s people today that bare some similarity and also remind us that God is sovereign and knows our works and where our abode is and that we can through the mind of Christ, be granted to read hear and keep the sayings of this prophecy (Rev 1:3). The admonition found in (Rev 2:14) explains what it is that must be burnt out of our heavens and will be as the bride of Christ who God is going to make ready (Rev 19:7).

Rev 2:12  And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
Rev 2:13  I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Rev 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

2Ki 19:28  Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer 17:9), however it is known and not hidden from God as revealed with these words “to” Sennacherib, “Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears“. The way in which God will deal with that first corrupt nature that is within us is typified by what will happen to Sennacherib, described with these words “therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest“. Sennacherib is going to reap what he sows, and like Satan he will be bound “by the way which thou camest” (Rev 9:2, Rev 9:11, Rev 20:3) until the day of his judgement when his old nature will be destroyed in the lake of fire (Rev_20:10).

Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Rev 9:11  And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Sennacherib’s death will come by his own sons, his own household that will prove to be a house divided as Satan is (2Ki 19:37). A hook and a bridle in these very sensitive areas of one’s face reveals that God is in complete control of the beast seen here as Sennacherib who He has caused to err by going up against Hezekiah, and the nation of Judah (Isa 63:17). Going “by the way which thou camest” is reflective of the unchanged pattern in the heart of Sennacherib, unlike the true prophets of God who do not go back the same way, symbolizing the growth and the increase that God gives to his people (1Ki 13:17).

1Ki 13:17  For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

2Ki 19:29  And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
2Ki 19:30  And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2Ki 19:31  For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

These three verses are in contrast with the old man and the new man, the old man that must decrease through a process of judgement described in (2Ki 19:29) along with the new man typified by Judah who must increase (Joh 3:30-31) and “yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward” in.

Things that we eat that “grow of themselves” represent the way that seems right to us but lead to death (Pro 14:12). That is the time in our life when we don’t understand God’s sovereignty over all things, or know of it but lack the faith to trust in it (Joh 21:18, Mar 9:23-24).

Pro 14:12  There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Joh 21:18  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest:[Pro 14:12] but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. [Rom 15:1]

Mar 9:23  Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Mar 9:24  And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. [Rom 3:27]

The second year we eat that which “springeth of the same” witnessing to us that because we are accustomed to doing evil we will continue on in our deception without God changing us (Jer 13:23). The third year represents that part of the process of judgement in Sennacherib’s life where the word of God comes to him symbolized by vineyards. God’s judgements are in the earth of Sennacherib “and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof” (Isa 26:9) however he will only learn righteousness in the lake of fire, when the “fruits thereof” that he has digested become purified at that time (Joh 12:48, Mat 12:37).

Jer 13:23  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Mat 12:37  For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

It is through the process of judgement that is described as “a sign unto thee” to Sennacherib that we can go unto perfection on the third day God permitting, and it is very few who are granted that deliverance in this life from the man of perdition on the throne of our hearts (2Th 2:8) a deliverance typified by this statement “And the remnant (Rom 11:5) that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward“. Sennacherib represents our old man who cannot inherit the kingdom of God and yet his experience of evil (Ecc 1:13) is necessary as is ours in order to bring us unto perfection Lord willing in the first resurrection.

2Th 2:8  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Ecc 1:13  And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Those few, the remnant “that escape” represent the bride of Christ who is made ready by the zeal of the Lord “ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this” (Rev 19:7, Joh 2:17).

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him:(“the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this“) for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

Joh 2:17  And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

2Ki 19:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
2Ki 19:33  By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
2Ki 19:34  For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

Two things are being expressed here, one that the gates of hell will not prevail against the body of Christ (Mat 16:18), those gates being represented by the king of Assyria who shoots arrows [false doctrines] that represents all the fiery darts of the devil that the faith of Christ within God’s elect will quench (Eph 6:16). He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world (1Jn 4:4) is what we are being told in symbolic language and “He shall not come into this city” means that sin will no longer dominate God’s elect (Rom 6:14, Tit 2:11-12) who will go unto perfection, learning that no weapon formed against God’s people will prevail because God tells his little flock “I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake (who typifies Christ)” (Isa 54:17, Luk 12:32). Like the previous mentioned point when someone goes “By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD” it represents that this person was not ordained to go unto perfection in this life, but rather to go back to the same path that leads to death (Heb 6:1-6).

Rom 6:14  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

2Ki 19:35  And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

185,000 people smote by the angel of the LORD is a symbollic number that explains how the day of the Lord 1 will bring about the new man 8 by way of grace through faith 5.

It is “early in the morning” that we discover life comes out of death, and that a seed must die in order for life to come forth (Joh 12:24). That life, for those who are granted it today, is the life of Christ which enables us to die daily and be dead to sin and alive in Him (Gal 2:20).

Mat 20:1  For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. [we are hired of Christ and Lord willing labour in the eleventh hour]

Mar 16:2  And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

Luk 21:38 And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

Luk 24:1  Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

Joh 8:2  And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

Act 5:21  And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

2Ki 19:36  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2Ki 19:37  And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that AdrammelechH152 and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

After this devastating defeat of Sennacherib’s army, you would think there would be some humility and brokenness of spirit in him, but because he represents our man of sin no such contriteness is found, and  “So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh“, continuing in his idolatrous ways of “worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god“. His two sons Adrammelech who was named after an Assyrian idol and Sharezer whose name means “prince of fire” “smote him with the sword” and “they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead“, telling us that sin persists, and that although Satan’s house is divided against itself it continues to flourish regardless of the severity of God’s correction (Rev 16:21). That is the pattern of waxing worse and worse that is unfolding in this present age and God is the one who softens or causes hearts to be hardened which is the overarching lesson of this study that teaches us of His sovereignty over light and darkness and over good and evil (Rom 11:22, Isa 45:7).

Rom 11:22  Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

In the end Hezekiah is delivered from Sennacherib and all of his forces, and all these things happened unto them for our sakes upon whom the end of the ages is come (1Co 10:11), that demonstrate the mercy that God shows to his elect first (Rom 11:31-32) in this life so that all of God’s creation can one day come to know this truth “Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee,(Heb 5:7) save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only“(2Ki 19:19).

Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.