2Kings:19:1-13

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* And it came to pass when king Hezekiah heard [it ], that he rent his garments , and covered himself with sackcloth , and went into the house of Jehovah . * And he sent Eliakim , who was over the household , and Shebna the scribe , and the elders of the priests , covered with sackcloth , to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz . * And they said to him , Thus says Hezekiah : This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of reviling ; for the children are come to the birth , and there is not strength to bring forth . * It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh , whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God ; and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God has heard . Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left . * And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said to them , Thus shall ye say to your master : Thus saith Jehovah : Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard , wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me . * Behold , I will put a spirit into him , and he shall hear tidings , and shall return to his own land ; and I will make him to fall by the sword in his own land . * And Rab-shakeh returned , and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah ; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish . * And he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia , Behold , he has come forth to make war with thee . And he sent messengers again to Hezekiah , saying , * Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah saying : Let not thy God , upon whom thou reliest , deceive thee , saying , Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries , destroying them utterly ; and shalt thou be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations which my fathers have destroyed delivered them : Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the children of Eden that were in Thelassar ? * Where is the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , of Hena , and Ivvah ?

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