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2 Kings 18 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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Hezekiah Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 29:1, 2; 31:1 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:1 - Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:2 - Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:3 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for till those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:5 - He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:6 - For he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

Hezekiah Victorious

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:7 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:8 - He smote the Philistines, even to Gaza, and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:9 - 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, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:10 - 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, Samaria was taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:11 - And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:12 - 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.

Invasion of Judah

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:13 - Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:14 - 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 I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:15 - And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:16 - 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.
(Isa 36:2–22; 2Ch 32:9–15 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army against Jerusalem: and they went up, and came to Jerusalem: and when they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:18 - And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19 - And Rab-shakeh said to them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trustest?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - Thou sayest, but they are but vain words, I have counsel and strength for the war. Now in whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:21 - Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man leaneth, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - But if ye say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou shalt be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:24 - How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - Have 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah, to Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But Rab-shakeh said to them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, that they may feed on their vilest excretions with you?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28 - Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:29 - Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:30 - Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:32 - Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-oil and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not to Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:33 - Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:34 - Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:35 - Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:36 - But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:37 - Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
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