2Kings:19-21

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* And it happened when King Hezekiah heard , he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth . And he went into the house of the LORD . * And he sent Eliakim who [was ] over the household , and Shebna the scribe , and the elders of the priests , covered with sackcloth , to Isaiah the prophet , the son of Amoz . * And they said to him , So says Hezekiah , [This is ] a day of trouble and of rebuke and contempt . For the sons have come to the birth , and [there is ] no strength to bring forth . * It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer with which his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God , and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard . And you shall lift up prayer for the rest who are left . * And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said to them , You shall say to your master , So says the LORD , Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me . * Behold , I will send a blast on him , and he shall hear a rumor and shall return to his own land . And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land . * And the chief cupbearer returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah , for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish . * And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia , Behold , he has come out to fight against you , he sent messengers again to Hezekiah , saying , * So you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you , saying , Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them . And shall you be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations delivered them , nations which my fathers have destroyed , Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the sons of Eden in Telassar ? * Where [is ] the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , of Hena , and of Ivah ? * And Hezekiah received the letters from the hand of the messengers , and read it . And Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD , and spread it before the LORD . * And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah and said , O Jehovah God of Israel , who dwells [between ] the cherubs , You [are ] God Himself , You alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth . You have made the heavens and the earth . * LORD , bow down Your ear and hear . O LORD , open Your eyes and see , and hear the words of Sennacherib , who has sent him to taunt the living God . * Truly , LORD , the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands , * and have thrown their gods into the fire ; for they [were ] no gods , but the work of men 's hands , wood and stone , and they have destroyed them . * And now , O , LORD our God , I beseech You , save us out of his hand , so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You [are ] the LORD God , and You only . * And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , So says Jehovah God of Israel , I have heard what you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria . * This [is ] the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him : The virgin , the daughter of Zion , has despised you [and ] laughed you to scorn . The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you . * Whom have you mocked and blasphemed ? And against whom have you exalted [your ] voice and lifted up your eyes on high ? Even against the Holy One of Israel ! * You have mocked the Lord by your messengers , and have said , With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains , to the sides of Lebanon , and will cut down its tall cedar trees , its choice fir trees . And I will enter into the lodgings of its borders , its densest forest ; * I have dug and drunk foreign waters , and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt . * Have you not heard it from afar , I made it ? From days of old I fashioned it ! Now I have caused it to come ; that you should make fortified cities desolate heaps of ruins . * And their people were of small power , they were fearful and put to shame . They were [like ] the grass of the field , and the green herb , like the grass on the house-tops , and like grain blasted before it was grown up . * But I know your sitting down , and your going out , and your coming in , and your rage against Me . * Because of your rage against Me , and because your arrogance has come up into My ears , even I will put My hook in your nose , and My bridle in your lips . And I will turn you back by the way in which you came . * And this shall be a sign to you : you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves , and in the second year that which springs up of the same . And in the third year , sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruits of them . * And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward . * For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant , and they who escape out of Mount Zion . The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this . * So the LORD says this concerning the king of Assyria . He shall not come into this city , nor shoot an arrow there , nor come before it with shield , nor throw up a bank against it . * By the way that he came , by the same he shall return , and shall not come into this city , says the LORD . * For I will defend this city , to save it for My own sake and for My servant David 's sake . * And it happened that night , the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians . And they arose early in the morning , and behold , they were all dead bodies . * And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed . And he went and returned and lived at Nineveh . * And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god , Adrammelech and Sharezer , his sons , struck him with the sword . And they escaped into the land of Ararat . And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place . * In those days Hezekiah was sick to death . And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him , So says the LORD , Set your house in order , for you shall die and not live . * And he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD , saying , O LORD , * I pray , O LORD , remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a sincere heart , and have done good in Your sight . And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping . * And it happened , Isaiah had gone out into the middle of the court , the word of the LORD came to him saying , * Return again and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people , So says the LORD , the God of David your father , I have heard your prayer , I have seen your tears . Behold , I will heal you . On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD . * And I will add fifteen years to your days . And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria . And I will defend this city for My own sake , and for My servant David 's sake . * And Isaiah said , Take a lump of figs . And they took and laid [it ] on the boil , and he recovered . * And Hezekiah said to Isaiah , What [shall be ] the sign that the LORD will heal me , and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day ? * And Isaiah said , This [will be ] the sign from the LORD , that the LORD will do the thing which He has spoken . Shall the shadow go forward ten steps , or go back ten steps ? * And Hezekiah answered , It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten steps . No , but let the shadow go backward ten steps . * And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD . And He brought the shadow ten steps backward , by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz . * At that time Berodach-baladan , the son of Baladan , king of Babylon , sent letters and a present to Hezekiah . For he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick . * And Hezekiah listened to them , and showed them all the house of his precious things , the silver and the gold , and the spices , and the precious ointment , and the house of his armor , and all that was found in his treasures . There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion which Hezekiah did not show them . * And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him , What did these men say ? And from where did they come to you ? And Hezekiah said , They have come from a far country , from Babylon . * And he said , What have they seen in your house ? And Hezekiah answered , They have seen all that [is ] in my house . There is nothing among my treasures which I have not shown to them . * And Isaiah said to Hezekiah , Hear the word of the LORD . * Behold , the days come when all that [is ] in your house , and which your fathers have laid up in store until today , shall be carried into Babylon . Nothing shall be left , says the LORD . * And of your sons which shall issue from you , which you shall father , they shall take away . And they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon . * And Hezekiah said to Isaiah , Good [is ] the word of the LORD which you have spoken . And he said , [Is it ] not [good ] if peace and truth are in my days ? * And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah , and all his might , and how he made a pool and a conduit , and brought water into the city , [are ] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And Hezekiah slept with his fathers . And Manasseh his son reigned in his place . * Manasseh [was ] twelve years old when he began to reign . And he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name [was ] Hephzibah . * And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD , after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel . * For he built up again the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed . And he reared up altars for Baal , and made an Asherah , as Ahab king of Israel did . And he worshiped all the host of heaven , and served them . * And he built altars in the house of the LORD , of which the LORD said , In Jerusalem I will put My name . * And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of the LORD . * And he made his son pass through the fire , and observed times and used fortune-tellers . And he dealt with familiar spirits and wizards . He worked much wickedness in the sight of the LORD , to provoke [Him ] to anger . * And he set a graven image of the Asherah which he had made in the house , of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son , In this house , and in Jerusalem , which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , I will put My name forever . * And I will not again make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers ; only if they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them , and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them . * But they did not listen . And Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations ever did , whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel . * And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets , saying , * Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations , doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did , who were before him , and has made Judah also to sin with his idols , * therefore , so says the LORD God of Israel , Behold , I [am ] bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah , so that whoever hears of it , both his ears shall tingle . * And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria , and the measuring line of the house of Ahab . And I will wipe Jerusalem as a dish is wiped , wiping and turning [it ] upside down . * And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance , and deliver them into the hand of their enemies . And they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies , * because they have done the evil in My sight , and have provoked Me to anger , since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even until this day . * And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood , until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another , besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin , in doing the evil in the sight of the LORD . * Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh , and all that he did , and his sin which he sinned , [are ] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And Manasseh slept with his fathers , and was buried in the garden of his own house , in the garden of Uzza . And his son Amon reigned in his place . * Amon [was ] twenty-two years old when he began to reign , and he reigned two years in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name [was ] Meshullemeth , the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah . * And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD , as his father Manasseh did . * And he walked in all the way that his father walked , and served the idols which his father served , and worshiped them . * And [he ] left Jehovah God of his fathers , and did not walk in the way of the LORD . * And the servants of Amon plotted against him and killed the king in his own house . * And the people of the land killed all those who had plotted against King Amon . And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place . * And the rest of the acts of Amon which he did , [are ] they not written in the Books of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And [he was ] buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza . And his son Josiah reigned in his place . * Josiah [was ] eight years old when he began to reign . And he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name [was ] Jedidah , the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath .

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