2Chronicles:32

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* After these things , and the establishment thereof , Sennacherib king of Assyria came , and entered into Judah , and encamped against the fenced cities , and thought to win them for himself . * And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come , and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem , * He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city : and they did help him . * So there was gathered # much people together , who stopped all the fountains ma #yan #, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land , saying , Why should the kings of Assyria come , and find much water ? * Also he strengthened himself , and built up all the wall that was broken , and raised it up to the towers , and another wall without , and repaired Millo in the city of David , and made darts and shields in abundance . * And he set captains of war over the people , and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city , and spake comfortably to them , saying , * Be strong and courageous , be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria , nor for all the multitude that is with him : for there be more with us than with him : * With him is an arm of flesh ; but with us is the LORD our God to help us , and to fight our battles . And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah . * After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem , (but he himself laid siege against Lachish , and all his power with him ,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah , and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem , saying , * Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria , Whereon do ye trust , that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem ? * Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst , saying , The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? * Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars , and commanded Judah and Jerusalem , saying , Ye shall worship before one altar , and burn incense upon it ? * Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands ? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand ? * Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed , that could deliver his people out of mine hand , that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand ? * Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you , nor persuade you on this manner , neither yet believe him : for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand , and out of the hand of my fathers : how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand ? * And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God , and against his servant Hezekiah . * He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, and to speak against him , saying , As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand , so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand . * Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall , to affright them , and to trouble them ; that they might take the city . * And they spake against the God of Jerusalem , as against the gods of the people of the earth , which were the work of the hands of man . * And for this cause Hezekiah the king , and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz , prayed and cried to heaven . * And the LORD sent an angel mal #ak #, which cut off all the mighty men of valour , and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria . So he returned with shame of face to his own land . And when he was come into the house of his god , they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword . * Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria , and from the hand of all other , and guided them on every side . * And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem , and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah : so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth . * In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death , and prayed unto the LORD : and he spake unto him , and he gave him a sign . * But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him ; for his heart was lifted up : therefore there was wrath upon him , and upon Judah and Jerusalem . * Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart , both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem , so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah . * And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour : and he made himself treasuries for silver , and for gold , and for precious stones , and for spices , and for shields , and for all manner of pleasant jewels ; * Storehouses also for the increase of corn , and wine , and oil ; and stalls for all manner of beasts , and cotes for flocks . * Moreover he provided him cities , and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance : for God had given him substance very much . * This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse mowtsa # of Gihon , and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David . And Hezekiah prospered in all his works ma #aseh #. * Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon , who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land , God left him , to try him , that he might know all that was in his heart . * Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah , and his goodness , behold , they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet , the son of Amoz , and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel Yisra #el #. * And Hezekiah slept with his fathers , and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David : and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death . And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead .

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