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In the third year of Hoshe '
a son of Elah ,
king of Israel ,
Hezeki '
ah the son of Ahaz ,
king of Judah ,
began to reign .
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem .
His mother '
s name was Abi the daughter of Zechari '
ah .
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD ,
according to all that David his father had done .
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He removed the high places ,
and broke the pillars ,
and cut down the Ashe '
rah .
And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made ,
for until those days the people of Israel had burned incense to it ;
it was called Nehush '
tan .
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He trusted in the LORD the God of Israel ;
so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him ,
nor among those who were before him .
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For he held fast to the LORD ;
he did not depart from following him ,
but kept the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses .
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And the LORD was with him ;
wherever he went forth ,
he prospered .
He rebelled against the king of Assyria ,
and would not serve him .
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He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory ,
from watchtower to fortified city .
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In the fourth year of King Hezeki '
ah ,
which was the seventh year of Hoshe '
a son of Elah ,
king of Israel ,
Shalmane '
ser king of Assyria came up against Sama '
ria and besieged it
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and at the end of three years he took it .
In the sixth year of Hezeki '
ah ,
which was the ninth year of Hoshe '
a king of Israel ,
Sama '
ria was taken .
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The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria ,
and put them in Halah ,
and on the Habor ,
the river of Gozan ,
and in the cities of the Medes ,
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because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant ,
even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded ;
they neither listened nor obeyed .
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In the fourteenth year of King Hezeki '
ah Sennach '
erib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them .
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And Hezeki '
ah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish ,
saying , "
I have done wrong ;
withdraw from me ;
whatever you impose on me I will bear ."
And the king of Assyria required of Hezeki '
ah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold .
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And Hezeki '
ah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD ,
and in the treasuries of the king '
s house .
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At that time Hezeki '
ah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD ,
and from the doorposts which Hezeki '
ah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria .
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And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan ,
the Rab '
saris ,
and the Rab '
shakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezeki '
ah at Jerusalem .
And they went up and came to Jerusalem .
When they arrived ,
they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool ,
which is on the highway to the Fuller '
s Field .
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And when they called for the king ,
there came out to them Eli '
akim the son of Hilki '
ah ,
who was over the household ,
and Shebnah the secretary ,
and Jo '
ah the son of Asaph ,
the recorder .
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And the Rab '
shakeh said to them , "
Say to Hezeki '
ah , `
Thus says the great king ,
the king of Assyria :
On what do you rest this confidence of yours ?
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Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war ?
On whom do you now rely ,
that you have rebelled against me ?