mkjv - 2Kings:19-21

mkjv@2Kings:19:1 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:2 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:3 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:4 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:5 @ And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

mkjv@2Kings:19:6 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:7 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:8 @ And the chief cupbearer returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

mkjv@2Kings:19:9 @ 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,

mkjv@2Kings:19:10 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:11 @ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?

mkjv@2Kings:19:12 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:19:13 @ Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivah?

mkjv@2Kings:19:14 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:15 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:16 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:17 @ Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

mkjv@2Kings:19:18 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:19 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:20 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:21 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:22 @ 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!

mkjv@2Kings:19:23 @ 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;

mkjv@2Kings:19:24 @ I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

mkjv@2Kings:19:25 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:26 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:27 @ But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.

mkjv@2Kings:19:28 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:29 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:30 @ And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

mkjv@2Kings:19:31 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:32 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:33 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:19:34 @ For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.

mkjv@2Kings:19:35 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:19:36 @ And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed. And he went and returned and lived at Nineveh.

mkjv@2Kings:19:37 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:1 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:2 @ And he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, O LORD,

mkjv@2Kings:20:3 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:4 @ And it happened, Isaiah had gone out into the middle of the court, the word of the LORD came to him saying,

mkjv@2Kings:20:5 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:6 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:7 @ And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid [it] on the boil, and he recovered.

mkjv@2Kings:20:8 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:20:9 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:20:10 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:11 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:12 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:13 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:14 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:15 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:16 @ And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:20:17 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:18 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:20:19 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:20:20 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:20:21 @ And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:21:1 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:2 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:3 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:4 @ And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem I will put My name.

mkjv@2Kings:21:5 @ And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:21:6 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:7 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:8 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:9 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:10 @ And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,

mkjv@2Kings:21:11 @ 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,

mkjv@2Kings:21:12 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:13 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:14 @ 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,

mkjv@2Kings:21:15 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:16 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:17 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:21:18 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:19 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:20 @ And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

mkjv@2Kings:21:21 @ And he walked in all the way that his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshiped them.

mkjv@2Kings:21:22 @ And [he] left Jehovah God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

mkjv@2Kings:21:23 @ And the servants of Amon plotted against him and killed the king in his own house.

mkjv@2Kings:21:24 @ 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.

mkjv@2Kings:21:25 @ 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?

mkjv@2Kings:21:26 @ And [he was] buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And his son Josiah reigned in his place.

mkjv@2Kings:22:1 @ 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.