sf_leeser_rev1 2Kings:18:1-16
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@2Kings:18:1 @ And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel, that Hezekiah, the son of Achaz the king of Judah, became king.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:2 @ Twenty and five years old was he when he became king, and twenty and nine years did he reign in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:3 @ And he did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, in accordance with all that David his father had done.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:4 @ He it was that removed the highplaces, and broke the statues, and cut down the groves, and stamped in pieces the copper serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days were the children of Israel burning incense to it; and he called it Nechushtan.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:5 @ In the Lord the God of Israel did he trust; and after him there was not his like among all the kings of Judah, nor among those that were before him.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:6 @ And he adhered to the Lord, and turned not away from following him; but he kept his commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:7 @ And the Lord was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:8 @ He it was that smote the Philistines, as far as Gazzah, and its territory, from the tower of the watchmen up to the fortified city.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:9 @ And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel, that Shalmanesser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:10 @ And they captured it at the end of three years,in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Israel, was Samaria captured.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:11 @ And the king of Assyria led away Israel as exiles unto Assyria, and transported them to Chalach and to Chabor, by the river of Gozan, and to the cities of Media;
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:12 @ Because they had not obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, but had transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and had not obeyed, nor done accordingly.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:13 @ And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib the king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and seized on them.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:14 @ And Hezekiah the king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; retire from me: what thou wilt impose on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah the king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:15 @ And Hezekiah gave up all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the kings house.
sf_leeser_rev1@2Kings:18:16 @ At that time did Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorsills which Hezekiah the king of Judah had overlaid, and gave the same to the king of Assyria.
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