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2 Kings
| In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of
Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. |
| Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and
he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Jecholiah of Jerusalem. |
| And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; |
| Save that the high places were not removed: the
people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. |
| And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper
unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the
king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land. |
| And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? |
| So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried
him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in
his stead. |
| In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of
Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six
months. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam
the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. |
| And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him,
and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. |
| And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they
are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. |
| This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto
Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth
generation. And so it came to pass. |
| Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine
and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month
in Samaria. |
| For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and
came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and
slew him, and reigned in his stead. |
| And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his
conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel. |
| Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were
therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to
him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with
child he ripped up. |
| In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of
Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned
ten years in Samaria. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, who made Israel to sin. |
| And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land:
and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might
be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. |
| And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all
the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give
to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed
not there in the land. |
| And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? |
| And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his
son reigned in his stead. |
| In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah
Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
reigned two years. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin. |
| But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his,
conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the
king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the
Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. |
| And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that
he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel. |
| In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of
Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria,
and reigned twenty years. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
made Israel to sin. |
| In the days of Pekah king of Israel came
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and
Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of
Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. |
| And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against
Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in
his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. |
| And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he
did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Israel. |
| In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king
of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. |
| Five and twenty years old was he when he began to
reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. |
| And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. |
| Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people
sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the
higher gate of the house of the LORD. |
| Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? |
| In those days the LORD began to send against Judah
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. |
| And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried
with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son
reigned in his stead. |
| In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah
Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. |
| Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign,
and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right
in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. |
| But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the
children of Israel. |
| And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high
places, and on the hills, and under every green tree. |
| Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah
king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but
could not overcome him. |
| At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to
Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and
dwelt there unto this day. |
| So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of
Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out
of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of
Israel, which rise up against me. |
| And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in
the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and
sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. |
| And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the
king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the
people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin. |
| And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet
Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus:
and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and
the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. |
| And Urijah the priest built an altar according to
all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it
against king Ahaz came from Damascus. |
| And when the king was come from Damascus, the king
saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered
thereon. |
| And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat
offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his
peace offerings, upon the altar. |
| And he brought also the brazen altar, which was
before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar
and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. |
| And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying,
Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening
meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering,
with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood
of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the
brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by. |
| Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that
king Ahaz commanded. |
| And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the
brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones. |
| And the covert for the sabbath that they had built
in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of
the LORD for the king of Assyria. |
| Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? |
| And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his
stead. |
| In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began
Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. |
| Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and
Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. |
| And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea:
for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present
to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king
of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. |
| Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. |
| In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah
and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. |
| For so it was, that the children of Israel had
sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had
feared other gods, |
| And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the
LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of
Israel, which they had made. |
| And the children of Israel did secretly those things
that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high
places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced
city. |
| And they set them up images and groves in every high
hill, and under every green tree: |
| And there they burnt incense in all the high places,
as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought
wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: |
| For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said
unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. |
| Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against
Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from
your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to
all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by
my servants the prophets. |
| Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened
their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in
the LORD their God. |
| And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant
that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified
against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after
the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had
charged them, that they should not do like them. |
| And they left all the commandments of the LORD their
God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. |
| And they caused their sons and their daughters to
pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. |
| Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of
Judah only. |
| Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD
their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. |
| And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he
had cast them out of his sight. |
| For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they
made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from
following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. |
| For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; |
| Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as
he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away
out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. |
| And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon,
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and
placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel:
and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. |
| And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling
there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions
among them, which slew some of them. |
| Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying,
The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath
sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know
not the manner of the God of the land. |
| Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go
and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the
land. |
| Then one of the priests whom they had carried away
from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should
fear the LORD. |
| Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put
them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made,
every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. |
| And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the
men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, |
| And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
the gods of Sepharvaim. |
| So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of
the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them
in the houses of the high places. |
| They feared the LORD, and served their own gods,
after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. |
| Unto this day they do after the former manners: they
fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their
ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded
the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; |
| With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged
them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them,
nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: |
| But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of
Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and
him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. |
| And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law,
and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. |
| And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall
not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. |
| But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. |
| Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former manner. |
| So these nations feared the LORD, and served their
graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as
did their fathers, so do they unto this day. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that David his father did. |
| He removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that
Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn
incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. |
| 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. |
| For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses. |
| 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. |
| He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the
borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of
Judah, and took them. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris 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 fuller's field. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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? |
| Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this
bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into
his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust
on him. |
| But if ye say unto 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? |
| Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord
the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if
thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna,
and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, 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. |
| But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me
to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to
the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and
drink their own piss with you? |
| Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king,
the king of Assyria: |
| Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you:
for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 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 oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken
not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver
us. |
| Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all
his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
| Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where
are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria
out of mine hand? |
| Who are they among all the gods of the countries,
that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should
deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? |
| But the people held their peace, and answered him
not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. |
| Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which 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
Rabshakeh. |
| And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it,
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into the house of the LORD. |
| And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. |
| And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This
day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children
are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. |
| It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words
of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach
the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. |
| So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. |
| And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your
master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast
heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed
me. |
| Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall
hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land. |
| So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish. |
| And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again
unto Hezekiah, saying, |
| 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. |
| Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria
have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered? |
| Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my
fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children of Eden which were in Thelasar? |
| Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? |
| And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD. |
| And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O
LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the
God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made
heaven and earth. |
| LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD,
thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent
him to reproach the living God. |
| Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands, |
| And have cast their gods into the fire: for they
were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore
they have destroyed them. |
| Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save
thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
that thou art the LORD God, even thou only. |
| Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed
to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. |
| This is the word that the LORD hath spoken
concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at
thee. |
| Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and
against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on
high? even against the Holy One of Israel. |
| By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and
hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height
of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall
cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter
into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. |
| I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the
sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. |
| 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. |
| Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn
blasted before it be grown up. |
| But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me. |
| Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come
up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my
bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou
camest. |
| And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat
this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that
which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. |
| And the remnant that is escaped of the house of
Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. |
| For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and
they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall
do this. |
| Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor
come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. |
| By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. |
| For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine
own sake, and for my servant David's sake. |
| And it came to pass that night, that the angel of
the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred
fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they were all dead corpses. |
| So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. |
| And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the
house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote
him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. |
| In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the
prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not
live. |
| Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto
the LORD, saying, |
| I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have
walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that
which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. |
| And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into
the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, |
| Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my
people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard
thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the
third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. |
| And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I
will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria;
and I will defend this city for mine own sake, and for my servant
David's sake. |
| And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took
and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. |
| And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the
sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house
of the LORD the third day? |
| And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the
LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the
shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? |
| And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the
shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward
ten degrees. |
| And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he
brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in
the dial of Ahaz. |
| At that time Berodachbaladan, the son of Baladan,
king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had
heard that Hezekiah had been sick. |
| And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed 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 showed them not. |
| Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and
said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon. |
| And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And
Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen:
there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them. |
| And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the
LORD. |
| Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine
house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day,
shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. |
| And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the
palace of the king of Babylon. |
| Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of
the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace
and truth be in my days? |
| And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his
might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the
city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? |
| And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead. |
| Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Hephzibah. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel. |
| For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah
his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a
grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served them. |
| And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of
which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. |
| And he built altars for all the host of heaven in
the two courts of the house of the LORD. |
| And he made his son pass through the fire, and
observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits
and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger. |
| And he set a graven image of the grove that he had
made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his
son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: |
| Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more
out of the land 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. |
| But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to
do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the
children of Israel. |
| And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying, |
| 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: |
| Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold,
I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth
of it, both his ears shall tingle. |
| And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem
as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. |
| And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a
prey and a spoil to all their enemies; |
| Because they have done that which was evil in my
sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came
forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. |
| Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin
wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the
sight of the LORD. |
| Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that
he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah? |
| 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. |
| Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. |
| And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his father Manasseh did. |
| And he walked in all the way that his father walked
in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: |
| And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and
walked not in the way of the LORD. |
| And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and
slew the king in his own house. |
| 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. |
| Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? |
| And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of
Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. |
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