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 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Prov 17:3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
• John 15:5I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
• Gen 22:1After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
• 2 Chr 32:24In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
• Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
• Isa 39:1–8At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
• Ps 139:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
• Jas 1:13Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
• Mal 3:2–3“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;
• Job 1:11–12But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
• Ps 51:11–12Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.
• 2 Kgs 20:8–13Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”
• Job 2:3–6Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
• Judg 16:20She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.
• Isa 38:7–8This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.
• Deut 13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
• 1 Pet 1:7that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Ps 119:116–117Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.
• Ps 139:23–24Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
• Ps 27:9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

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