bes - Isaiah:37:1-13

bes@Isaiah:37:1 @ And it came to pass, when king Ezekias heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:37:2 @ And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias,

bes@Isaiah:37:3 @ To-day is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.

bes@Isaiah:37:4 @ May the Lord thy God hear the words of Rabsaces, which the king of the Assyrians has sent, to reproach the living God, even to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: therefore thou shalt pray to thy Lord for these that are left.

bes@Isaiah:37:5 @ So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.

bes@Isaiah:37:6 @ And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not thou afraid at the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me,

bes@Isaiah:37:7 @ Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land.

bes@Isaiah:37:8 @ So Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachis.

bes@Isaiah:37:9 @ And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to (note:)Gr. besiege(:note) attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

bes@Isaiah:37:10 @ Thus shall ye say to Ezekias king of Judea, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

bes@Isaiah:37:11 @ Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shalt thou be delivered?

bes@Isaiah:37:12 @ Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Charrhan, and Rapheth, which are in the land of Theemath?

bes@Isaiah:37:13 @ Where are the kings of Emath? and where is the king of Arphath? and where is the king of the city of Eppharuaim, and of Anagugana?