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18 *Now it came to pass in athe third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that b||Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was ||Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. 3 cAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. 4 dHe removed the high places, and brake the †images, and cut down ethe groves, and brake in pieces the fbrasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it ||Nehushtan. 5 He gtrusted in the Lord God of Israel; hso that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. 6 For he iclave to the Lord, and departed not †from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. 7 *And kthe Lord was with him; and he lprospered whithersoever he went forth: and he mrebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 8 He nsmote the Philistines, even unto †Gaza, and the borders thereof, ofrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And pit came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 **And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: 12 Because qthey obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but rtransgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 *Now sin the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did †Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to tLachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah uthree hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah xgave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house. 16 *At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave †it to the king of Assyria.
17 yAnd the king of Assyria sent zTartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a †great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by athe conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them bEliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and bShebna the ||scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph cthe recorder. 19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, dWhat confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 20 Thou ||sayest, (but they are but †vain words,) ||I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? 21 Now, behold, thou †trustest upon ethe staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, fwhose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give ||pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants gin the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink †their own piss with you? 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and hcried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: 29 Thus saith the king, iLet not Hezekiah jdeceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, ||Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man kof his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his ||cistern: 32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, la land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and mof honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he ||persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. 33 nHath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 oWhere are the gods of pHamath, and of qArpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and ||Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that rthe Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 37 Then came sEliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah twith their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
19 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that ahe rent his clothes, and bcovered himself with sackcloth, and cwent into the house of the Lord. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, bcovered with sackcloth, dto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and ||blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 eIt may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent fto reproach the living God; and gwill reprove the words which hthe Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for ithe remnant that are †left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And *Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which kthe servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, lI will send ma blast upon him, and he nshall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against oLibnah: for he had heard that he was departed from pLachish. 9 *And qwhen he heard say of Tirhakah king of rEthiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God sin whom thou trustest tdeceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 12 uHave the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as xGozan, and yzHaran, and Rezeph, and the children of zEden which were in aThelasar? 13 bWhere is the king of Hamath, and the king of cArpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the dletter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord. 15 And eHezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest fbetween the cherubims, gthou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. 16 Lord, hbow down thine ear, and hear: iopen, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him kto reproach the living God. 17 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 And have †cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but lthe work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, mthat all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
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 nI have heard. 21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him;
The ovirgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem phath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou qreproached and rblasphemed?
And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice,
And lifted up thine eyes on high?
Even against sthe Holy One of Israel.
23 †tBy thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said,
uWith the multitude of my chariots I am come up
To the height of the mountains, to the sides of xLebanon,
And will cut down †the tall xcedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof:
And I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into ||the forest of his yCarmel.
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.
25 ||Hast thou not heard long ago how zI have done it,
And of ancient times that I have formed it?
Now ahave I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste
Fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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 bherb,
As cthe grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy ||abode, and dthy going out, and thy coming in,
And thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears,
Therefore I will put emy hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips,
And I will turn thee back fby the way by which thou camest.
29 And this shall be ga sign unto thee,
Ye shall eat this year hsuch 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.
30 iAnd †the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
Shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
And †they that escape out of mount Zion:
kThe zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
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 lcast a bank against it.
33 mBy the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
And shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
34 For nI will defend this city, to save it,
For mine own sake, and ofor my servant David’s sake.
35 And pit came to pass that night, that qthe angel of the Lord went out, and smote rin 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. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at sNineveh. 37 *And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that tAdrammelech and Sharezer his sons usmote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of †Armenia. And xEsarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
20 *In athose days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, †Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face bto the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying, 3 I beseech thee, O Lord, cremember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with da perfect heart, and ehave done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah fwept †sore. 4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle ||court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah gthe captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, hI have heard thy prayer, I have seen ithy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord. 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and kI will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. 7 And lIsaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on mthe boil, and he recovered. 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, nWhat shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day? 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: oshall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10 And Hezekiah answered, pIt is a light thing for qthe shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the †dial of Ahaz.
12 *rAt that time ||Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And Hezekiah shearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his ||precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his ||armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not. 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. 15 And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, tAll the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them. 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, ushall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the Lord. 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, xshall they take away; ||and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, yGood is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, ||*Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days? 20 zAnd the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he amade a pool, and a conduit, and bbrought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21 And c*Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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