2 Kings 18:13 References
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aNow in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
a 2 Chronicles 32:1, Isaiah 36:1-22, Isaiah 37:1-38, Isaiah 38:1-22, Isaiah 39:1-8
2 Chronicles 32
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After these acts of faithfulness aSennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and besieged the fortified cities, and thought to break into them for himself.
Isaiah 36
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aNow in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, bSennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
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And the aking of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the bconduit of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller's field.
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Then aEliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and bShebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.
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Then aRabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What is this confidence that you have?
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"I say, 'Your counsel and strength for the war are only empty words.' Now on whom do you rely, that ayou have rebelled against me?
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"Behold, you rely on the astaff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. bSo is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
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"But if you say to me, 'We trust in the Lord our God,' is it not He awhose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar'?
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"Now therefore, come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
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"How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master's servants and arely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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"Have I now come up without the Lord'S approval against this land to destroy it? aThe Lord said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.'"'"
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Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in aAramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in bJudean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
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But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"
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Then Rabshakeh stood and acried with a loud voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
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nor let Hezekiah make you atrust in the Lord, saying, "The Lord will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
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'Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his avine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the bwaters of his own cistern,
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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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'Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, "aThe Lord will deliver us." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
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'Where are the gods of aHamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of aSepharvaim? And when have they bdelivered Samaria from my hand?
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'Who among all the agods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the bLord would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'"
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But they were silent and aanswered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."
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Then aEliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and bShebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 37
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And awhen King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Lord.
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Then he sent aEliakim who was over the household with bShebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to cIsaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
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They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a aday of distress, rebuke and rejection; for bchildren have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.
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'Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to areproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for bthe remnant that is left.'"
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So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
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Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord, "aDo not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
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"Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will ahear a rumor and breturn to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"
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Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against aLibnah, for he had heard that the king had left bLachish.
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When he aheard them say concerning Tirhakah king of bCush, "He has come out to fight against you," and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
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"Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, 'aDo not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
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'aBehold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?
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'Did the gods of those nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even aGozan and bHaran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
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'Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'"
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Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.
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Hezekiah prayed to the Lord saying,
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"O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, awho is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the bGod, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. cYou have made heaven and earth.
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"aIncline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and blisten to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to creproach the living God.
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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the awork of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have bdestroyed them.
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"Now, O Lord our God, adeliver us from his hand that ball the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, are God."
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Then aIsaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,
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this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: "She has despised you and mocked you, The avirgin bdaughter of Zion; She has cshaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!
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"Whom have you areproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And haughtily blifted up your eyes? Against the cHoly One of Israel!
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"Through your servants you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, 'With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of aLebanon; And I cut down its tall bcedars and its choice cypresses. And I will go to its highest peak, its thickest cforest.
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'I dug wells and drank waters, And awith the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt.'
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"aHave you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I bplanned it. Now cI have brought it to pass, That dyou should turn fortified cities into eruinous heaps.
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"Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the avegetation of the field and as the green herb, As bgrass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
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"Because of your raging against Me And because your aarrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My bhook in your nose And My cbridle in your lips, And I will turn you back dby the way which you came.
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"Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what agrows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
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"The asurviving bremnant of the house of Judah will again ctake root downward and bear fruit upward.
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"For out of Jerusalem will go forth a aremnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The bzeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this."'
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"Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a asiege ramp against it.
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'aBy the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the Lord.
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Then the aangel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.
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It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of aArarat. And bEsarhaddon his son became king in his place.
Isaiah 38
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aIn those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And bIsaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'cSet your house in order, for you shall die and not live.'"
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Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,
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and said, "aRemember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have bwalked before You in truth and with a cwhole heart, and dhave done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah ewept bitterly.
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Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,
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"Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add afifteen years to your life.
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"I will adeliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city."'
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"This shall be the asign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that He has spoken:
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"Behold, I will acause the shadow on the stairway, which has gone down with the sun on the stairway of Ahaz, to go back ten steps." So the bsun's shadow went back ten steps on the stairway on which it had gone down.
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A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:
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I said, "aIn the middle of my life I am to enter the bgates of Sheol; I am to be cdeprived of the rest of my years."
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I said, "I will not see the Lord, The Lord ain the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
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"Like a shepherd's atent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me; As a bweaver I crolled up my life. He dcuts me off from the loom; From eday until night You make an end of me.
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"I composed my soul until morning. aLike a lion--so He bbreaks all my bones, From cday until night You make an end of me.
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"aLike a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I bmoan like a dove; My ceyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my dsecurity.
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"aWhat shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will bwander about all my years because of the cbitterness of my soul.
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"O Lord, aby these things men live, And in all these is the life of my spirit; bO restore me to health and clet me live!
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"Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is You who has akept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have bcast all my sins behind Your back.
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"For aSheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down bto the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
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"It is the aliving who give thanks to You, as I do today; A bfather tells his sons about Your faithfulness.
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"The Lord will surely save me; So we will aplay my songs on stringed instruments bAll the days of our life cat the house of the Lord."
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Now aIsaiah had said, "Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover."
Isaiah 39
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aAt that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.
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Hezekiah was apleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the bsilver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
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Then Isaiah the aprophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" And Hezekiah said, "They have come to me from a far bcountry, from Babylon."
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He said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them."
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'Behold, the days are coming when aall that is in your house and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the Lord.