Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 32:13

"Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?" — 2 Chronicles 32:13 (ASV)

What I and my fathers have done. —The Assyrian kings are fond of such references to their predecessors.

The people of other lands. —Rather, the peoples of the countries.

Those lands. —The countries.

Their lands. —Their country. The chronicler omits the names of the vanquished states given in 2 Kings 18:34, some of which had probably become obscure by lapse of time.

Assurbanipal relates that in his eighth campaign he carried off the gods of Elam with the other spoils: “His gods, his goddesses, his furniture, his goods, people small and great, I carried off to Assyria;” and he adds the names of nineteen of these deities.