2 Chronicles 32:31

When Babylonian envoys came, God withdrew to test Hezekiah and reveal what was in his heart. God sometimes tests His servants to expose and refine the heart.

Cross-references · 22

• Deut 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
• Prov 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
• John 15:5I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
• Gen 22:1Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
• 2 Chr 32:24In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.
• Deut 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
• Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
• Isa 39:1–8At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard about Hezekiah’s illness and recovery.
• Ps 139:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
• Jas 1:13When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone.
• Mal 3:2–3But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
• Job 1:11–12But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Ps 51:11–12Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
• 2 Kgs 20:8–13Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
• Job 2:3–6Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
• Judg 16:20Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.
• Isa 38:7–8This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised:
• Deut 13:3you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
• 1 Pet 1:7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 119:116–117Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
• Ps 27:9Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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