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Sennacherib besieges Hezekiah. II. KINGS. Samaria is carried captive.

ah, (that is,the ninth year of Hoshea king horses, if thou be able on thy part to set of Israel,)Samaria was taken. riders upon them.

11 And the king of Assyria did carry 24 How then wilt thou turn away the away Israel unto Assyria, and put them face of one captain of the least of my masin Halah and in Habor by the river of Go-ter's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt zan, and in the cities of the Medes: for chariots and for horsemen ?

12 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.

25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hil13 ¶ Now in the fourteenth year of king kiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto RabHezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy sercome up against all the fenced cities of vants in the Syrian language; for we unJudah, and took them. derstand it: and talk not with us in the

14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent Jews' language in the ears of the people to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, that are on the wall.

I have offended; return from me: that 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, which thou puttest on me I will bear. Hath my master sent me to thy master, And the king of Assyria appointed unto and to thee, to speak these words? hath he Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred not sent me to the men which sit on the talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. wall, that they may eat their own dung, 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the sil- and drink their own piss with you? ver that was found in the house of the LORD, 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried and in the treasures of the king's house. with a loud voice in the Jews' language,

16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off and spake, saying, Hear the word of the the gold from the doors of the temple of great king, the king of Assyria: the LORD, and from the pillars which 29 Thus saith the king. Let not HezeHezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and kiah deceive you: for he shall not be able gave it to the king of Assyria. to deliver you out of his hand:

17 ¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tar- 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust tan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from in the LORD, saying, The LORD will sureLachish to king Hezekiah with a great ly deliver us, and this city shall not be dehost against Jerusalem: and they went livered into the hand of the king of Assyria. up, and came to Jerusalem: and when 31 Hearken not unto Hezekiah: for they were come up, they came and stood thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

18 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.

agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn 19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith a land of oil-olive and of honey, that ye the great king, the king of Assyria, What may live, and not die: and hearken not confidence is this wherein thou trustest? unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

20 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?

33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

21 Now behold, thou trustest upon the 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, of Arpad? where are the gods of Sephar on which if a man lean, it will go into his vaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they deliverhand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king ed Samaria out of my hand? of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

35 Who are they among all the gods of 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the countries that have delivered their the LORD our God: is not that he whose country out of my hand, that the LORD high places and whose altars Hezekiah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? hath taken away, and hath said to Judah 36 But the people held their peace, and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before and answered him not a word: for the this altar in Jerusalem? king's commandment was, saying, An

23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give swer him not. pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hiland I will deliver thee two thousand kiah, which was over the household, and

Hezekiah mourns.

CHAP. XIX.

Hezekiah's prayer · Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the their clothes rent, and told him the words LORD and said, O LORD God of Israel, of Rab-shakeh. which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all

CHAP. XIX.

AND it came to pass, when king He- the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made

zekiah heard that he rent his heaven and earth.

clothes, and covered himself with sack- 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: cloth, and went into the house of the LORD. open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent the household, and Shebna the scribe, and him to reproach the living God.

the elders of the priests, covered with 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of syria have destroyed the nations and their Amoz. lands,

3 And they said unto him, Thus saith 18 And have cast their gods into the Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, fire: for they were no gods, but the work and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the of men's hands, wood and stone: therechildren are come to the birth, and there fore they have destroyed them.

is not strength to bring forth.

19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I

4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the that all the kingdoms of the earth may king of Assyria his master hath sent to re- know that thou art the LORD God, even proach the living God; and will reprove thou only.

the words which the LORD thy God hath 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD remnant that are left. God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus 21 This is the word that the LORD hath shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the spoken concerning him; The virgin the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and thou hast heard, with which the servants laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, 22 Whom hast thou reproached and and he shall hear a rumour, and shall re-blasphemed? and against whom hast thou turn to his own land; and I will cause him exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes to fall by the sword in his own land. on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found 23 By thy messengers thou hast rethe king of Assyria warring against Lib-proached the LORD, and hast said, With nah: for he had heard that he was depart-the multitude of my chariots I am come ed from Lachish. up to the height of the mountains, to the 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out tall cedar-trees thereof, and the choice to fight against thee: he sent messengers fir-trees thereof: and I will enter into the again unto Hezekiah, saying, lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered?

24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

12 Have the gods of the nations de- 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of livered them which my fathers have de- small power, they were dismayed and stroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Re- confounded; they were as the grass of the zeph, and the children of Eden which were field, and as the green herb, as the grass on in Thelasar? the house-tops, and as corn blasted before

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and it be grown up. the king of Arpad, and the king of the 27 But I know thy abode, and thy gocity of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? ing out, and thy coming in, and thy rage 14 And Hezekiah received the letter against me.

of the hand of the messengers, and read 28 Because thy rage against me and it: and Hezekiah went up into the house thy tumult is come up into mine ears,

Sennacherib slain by his sons

II. KINGS.

The sun goes

backward. therefore I will put my hook m thy nose. years; and I will deliver thee and this and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn city out of the hand of the king of Assythee back by the way by which thou camest. ria; and I will defend this city for mine 29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, own sake, and for my servant David's sake. Ye shall eat this year such things as grow 7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. of themselves, and in the second year that And they took and laid it on the bile, and which springeth of the same; and in the he recovered.

third year sow ye, and reap, and plant 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. What shall be the sign that the LORD will 30 And the remnant that is escaped of heal me, and that I shall go up into the the house of Judah shall yet again take house of the LORD the third day? root downward, and bear fruit upward. 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth have of the LORD, that the LORD will do a remnant, and they that escape out of the thing that he hath spoken: shall the mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back shall do this. ten degrees?

32 Therefore thus saith the LORD con- 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light cerning the king of Assyria, He shall not thing for the shadow to go down ten decome into this city, nor shoot an arrow grees: nay, but let the shadow return there, nor come before it with shield, nor backward ten degrees. cast a bank against it.

11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto

33 By the way that he came, by the the LORD: and he brought the shadow same shall he return, and shall not come ten degrees backward, by which it had into this city, saith the LORD. gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

34 For I will defend this city, to save. it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

37 And it came to pass, as he was wor- 14 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, to king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons said these men? and from whence came smote him with the sword: and they they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, escaped into the land of Armenia. And They are come from a far country, even Esar-baddon his son reigned in his stead. from Babylon.

CHAP. XX.

15 And he said, What have they seen N those days was Hezekiah sick unto in thy house? And Hezekiah answer

soned, things ure my

of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, have they seen: there is nothing among Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in my treasures that I have not shewed them. order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, Hear the word of the LORD. and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

17 Behold, the days come, that all that

3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember is in thy house, and that which thy fanow how I have walked before thee in thers have laid up in store unto this day, truth and with a perfect beart, and have shall be carried into Babylon: nothing done that which is good in thy sight. And shall be left, saith the LORD.

Hezekiah wept sore.

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from

4 And it came pass, afore Isaiah was thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they gone out into the middle court, that the take away; and they shall be eunuchs in word of the LORD came to him, saying, the palace of the king of Babylon.

5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, Good is the word of the LORD which thou the God of David thy father, I have hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: if peace and truth be in my days? behold, I will heal thee: on the third day 20 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Hezethou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. kiah, and all his might, and how he made 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen a pool, and a conduit, and brought water

Amon's wicked reign.

Manasseh's reign and idolatry. CHAP. XXI, XXII. into the city, are they not written in the 14 And I will forsake the remnant of book of the Chronicles of the kings of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the Judah?

21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

CHAP. XXI.

hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked

MANASSEH was twelve years old me to anger, since the day their fathers

when he began to reign, and reign- came forth out of Egypt, even unto this ed fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And day. his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent 2 And he did that which was evil in the blood very much, till he had filled Jerusasight of the LORD, after the abominations lem from one end to another; besides his of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in before the children of Israel. doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasand he reared up altars for Baal, and made seh, and all that he did, and his sin that a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and he sinned, are they not written in the book worshipped all the host of heaven, and of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? served them.

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

5 And he built altars for all the host of 19 Amon was twenty and two years heaven in the two courts of the house of old when he began to reign, and he reignthe LORD. ed two years in Jerusalem. And his mo6 And he made his son pass through the ther's name was Meshullemeth, the daughfire, and observed times, and used enchant-ter of Haruz of Jotbah.

ments, and dealt with familiar spirits and 20 And he did that which was evil in the wizards he wrought much wickedness in sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to did.

anger.

21 And he walked in all the way that 7 And he set a graven image of the his father walked in, and served the idols grove that he had made in the house, of that his father served, and worshipped which the LORD said to David, and to So- them: lomon his son, In this house, and in Jeru- 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his salem, which I have chosen ou' of all tribes fathers, and walked not in the way of the of Israel, will I put my name for ever: LORD.

8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the lard which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

9 But they hearkened not: and Manas- 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon seh seduced them to do more evil than did which he did, are they not written in the the nations whom the LORD destroyed be-book of the Chronicles of the kings of Jufore the children of Israel. dah?

10 And the LORD spake by his ser- 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre vants the prophets, saying, in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

JOSI

CHAP. XXII.

OSIAH was eight years old when he began to reign,and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah

12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil of Boscath. upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever

2 And he did that which was right in the heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. sight of the LORD, and walked in all the 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem way of David bis father, and turned not the line of Samaria, and the plummet of aside to the right hand or to the left. the house of Ahab and I will wipe Jeru- 3 And it came to pass in the salem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the and turning it upside down. king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah,

The good reign of Josiah.

II. KINGS.

He covenants with God. the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the book which the king of Judah hath read: house of the LORD, saying, 17 Because they have forsaken me, and

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that have burned incense unto other gods, that he may sum the silver which is brought they might provoke me to anger with all into the house of the LORD, which the the works of their hands; therefore my keepers of the door have gathered of wrath shall be kindled against this place, the people: and shall not be quenched.

18 But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;

5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work, which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house, 19 Because thy heart was tender, and 6 Unto carpenters, and builders, and thou hast humbled thyself before the masons, and to buy timber and hewn LORD, when thou heardest what I spake stone to repair the house. against this place, and against the inhabit7 Howbeit, there was no reckoning ants thereof, that they should become a made with them of the money that was desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy delivered into their hand, because they clothes, and wept before me; I also have dealt faithfully. heard thee, saith the LORD.

8 ¶ And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

20 Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

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CHAP. XXIII.

ND the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them of Jerusalem. that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

2 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book 11 And it came to pass, when the king of the covenant which was found in the had heard the words of the book of the house of the LORD. law, that he rent his clothes.

3 And the king stood by a pillar, and 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah made a covenant before the LORD, to walk the priest, and Ahikam the son of Sha-after the LORD, and to keep his commandphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, ments, and his testimonies, and his staand Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a tutes, with all their heart, and all their servant of the king's, saying, soul, to perform the words of this covenant 13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, that were written in this book. And all and for the people, and for all Judah, con- the people stood to the covenant.

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cerning the words of this book that is 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah found for great is the wrath of the LORD the high priest, and the priests of the sethat is kindled against us, because our fa-cond order, and the keepers of the door, thers have not hearkened unto the words to bring forth out of the temple of the of this book, to do according unto all that LORD all the vessels that were made for which is written concerning us. Baal, and for the grove, and for all the 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, host of heaven: and he burned them withand Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, out Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and went unto Huldah the prophetess, the carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; whom the kings of Judah had ordained to (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the col- burn incense in the high places in the lege;) and they communed with her. cities of Judah, and in the places round 15 T And she said unto them, Thus about Jerusalem; them also that burned saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell the incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the man that sent you to me, moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

16 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the in- 6 And he brought out the grove from habitants thereof, even all the words of the the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem,

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