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| 18:1 | Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son
of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz
king of Judah began to reign. |
| 18:2 | 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.
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| 18:3 | And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father did. |
| 18:4 | He removed the high places, and brake the images, and
cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen
serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the
children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called
it Nehushtan. |
| 18:5 | He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after
him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor
any that were before him. |
| 18:6 | For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD
commanded Moses. |
| 18:7 | And the LORD was with him; and he prospered
whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the
king of Assyria, and served him not. |
| 18:8 | He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the
fenced city. |
| 18:9 | And it 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. |
| 18:10 | 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. |
| 18:11 | 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: |
| 18:12 | Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their
God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses
the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear
them, nor do them. |
| 18:13 | Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the
fenced cities of Judah, and took them. |
| 18:14 | And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to Lachish, 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
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of
gold. |
| 18:15 | And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found
in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the
king's house. |
| 18:16 | 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. |
| 18:17 | And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and
Rabshakeh 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 the
conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the
fuller's field. |
| 18:18 | And when they had called to the king, there came out
to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
Asaph the recorder. |
| 18:19 | And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria,
What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? |
| 18:20 | 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? |
| 18:21 | Now, behold, thou trustest upon the 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. |
| 18:22 | But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God:
is not that he, whose high places and whose altars
Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and
Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in
Jerusalem? |
| 18:23 | 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. |
| 18:24 | 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? |
| 18:25 | 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. |
| 18:26 | Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and
Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants
in 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. |
| 18:27 | But Rabshakeh 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? |
| 18:28 | Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of
the great king, the king of Assyria: |
| 18:29 | Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:
for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: |
| 18:30 | 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. |
| 18:31 | 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 of his own vine, and
every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the
waters of his cistern: |
| 18:32 | Until I come and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and
vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may
live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he
persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. |
| 18:33 | Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all
his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
| 18:34 | Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are
the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they
delivered Samaria out of mine hand? |
| 18:35 | Who are they among all the gods of the countries,
that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that
the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? |
| 18:36 | But the people held their peace, and answered him not
a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer
him not. |
| 18:37 | Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of
Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent,
and told him the words of Rabshakeh. |