2Kings:18:1-16

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* And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea ’ the son of Elah the king of Israel , that Hezekiah , the son of Achaz the king of Judah , became king . * Twenty and five years old was he when he became king , and twenty and nine years did he reign in Jerusalem ; and his mother ’s name was Abi , the daughter of Zechariah . * And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord , in accordance with all that David his father had done . * He it was that removed the high –places , and broke the statues , and cut down the groves , and stamped in pieces the copper serpent that Moses had made ; for unto those days were the children of Israel burning incense to it ; and he called it Nechushtan . * In the Lord the God of Israel did he trust ; and after him there was not his like among all the kings of Judah , nor among those that were before him . * And he adhered to the Lord , and turned not away from following him ; but he kept his commandments , which the Lord had commanded Moses . * And the Lord was with him ; whithersoever he went forth he prospered : and he rebelled against the king of Assyria , and served him not . * He it was that smote the Philistines , as far as Gazzah , and its territory , from the tower of the watchmen up 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 the king of Israel , that Shalmanesser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria , and besieged it . * And they captured it at the end of three years ,––in the sixth year of Hezekiah , that is the ninth year of Hoshea ’ the king of Israel , was Samaria captured . * And the king of Assyria led away Israel as exiles unto Assyria , and transported them to Chalach and to Chabor , by the river of Gozan , and to the cities of Media ; * Because they had not obeyed the voice of the Lord their God , but had transgressed his covenant , all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded ; and had not obeyed , nor done accordingly . * And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib the king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah , and seized on them . * And Hezekiah the king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish , saying , I have sinned ; retire from me : what thou wilt impose on me will I bear . And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah the king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold . * And Hezekiah gave up all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord , and in the treasures of the king ’s house . * At that time did Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of the Lord , and from the door –sills which Hezekiah the king of Judah had overlaid , and gave the same to the king of Assyria .

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