2Kings:18:1-16

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* And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah , king of Israel , that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz , king of Judah , began to reign . * He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem ; and his mother 's name was Abi , daughter of Zechariah . * And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah , according to all that David his father had done . * He removed the high places , and broke the columns , and cut down the Asherahs , and broke in pieces the serpent of brass that Moses had made ; for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it : and he called it Nehushtan . * He trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel ; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah , nor [among any ] that were before him . * And he clave to Jehovah , and did not turn aside from following him , but kept his commandments , which Jehovah commanded Moses . * And Jehovah was with him ; he prospered whithersoever he went forth . And he rebelled against the king of Assyria , and served him not . * He smote the Philistines unto Gazah and its borders , from the watchmen 's tower to the fortified city . * And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah , which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah , king of Israel , [that ] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it . * And at the end of three years they took it ; in the sixth year of Hezekiah , that is , the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel , Samaria was taken . * And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria , and settled them in Halah and by the Habor , the river of Gozan , and in the cities of the Medes ; * because they hearkened not to the voice of Jehovah their God , but transgressed his covenant , all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded ; and they would not hear nor do it . * And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah , Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah , and took them . * And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish , saying , I have sinned ; retire from me : I will bear what thou layest upon me . And the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold . * And Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of Jehovah , and in the treasures of the king 's house . * At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the temple of Jehovah , and the posts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid , and gave them to the king of Assyria .

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