2Kings:18:1-20
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Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel Yisra #
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that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign .
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Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign ;
and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem .
His mothers name also was Abi ,
the daughter of Zachariah .
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD ,
according to all that David his father did .
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He removed the high places ,
and brake the images ,
and cut down the groves ,
and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made :
for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it :
and he called it Nehushtan .
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He trusted in the LORD God of Israel Yisra #
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so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah ,
nor any that were before him .
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For he clave to the LORD ,
and departed not from following him ,
but kept his commandments ,
which the LORD commanded Moses .
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And the LORD was with him ;
and he prospered whithersoever he went forth :
and he rebelled against the king of Assyria ,
and served him not .
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He smote the Philistines ,
even unto Gaza ,
and the borders thereof ,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city .
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah ,
which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel Yisra #
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that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria ,
and besieged it .
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And at the end of three years they took it :
even in the sixth year of Hezekiah ,
that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel Yisra #
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Samaria was taken .
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And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria ,
and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan ,
and in the cities of the Medes :
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Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God ,
but transgressed his covenant ,
and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded ,
and would not hear them ,
nor do them .
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Now in the fourteenth #
H6240year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah ,
and took them .
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And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish ,
saying ,
I have offended ;
return from me :
that which thou puttest on me will I bear .
And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold .
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And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD ,
and in the treasures of the kings house .
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At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD ,
and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid ,
and gave it to the king of Assyria .
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And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris Rab-Cariyc #
and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem .
And they went up and came to Jerusalem .
And when they were come up ,
they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool ,
which is in the highway of the fullers field .
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And when they had called to the king ,
there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah ,
which was over the household ,
and Shebna the scribe ,
and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder .
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And Rabshakeh said unto them ,
Speak ye now to Hezekiah ,
Thus saith the great king ,
the king of Assyria ,
What confidence is this wherein thou trustest ?
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Thou sayest , (
but they are but vain words , )
I have counsel and strength for the war .
Now on whom dost thou trust ,
that thou rebellest against me ?