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2 Kings 18:1
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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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| 2 Kings 18:2 |
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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: and his mother's
name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. |
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| 2 Kings 18:3 |
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And he did that which was right in the eyes
of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done. |
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| 2 Kings 18:4 |
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He removed the high places, and brake the pillars,
and cut down the Asherah: and he 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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:5 |
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He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so
that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them
that were before him. |
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| 2 Kings 18:6 |
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For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses. |
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| 2 Kings 18:7 |
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And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went
forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him
not. |
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| 2 Kings 18:8 |
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He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders
thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. |
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| 2 Kings 18:9 |
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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, that
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. |
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| 2 Kings 18:10 |
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And at the end of three years they took it:
in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel,
Samaria was taken. |
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| 2 Kings 18:11 |
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And the king of Assyria carried Israel away
unto 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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| 2 Kings 18:12 |
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because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah
their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah
commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. |
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| 2 Kings 18:13 |
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Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah
did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah,
and took them. |
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| 2 Kings 18:14 |
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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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| 2 Kings 18:15 |
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And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was
found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house. |
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| 2 Kings 18:16 |
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At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from
the doors of the temple of Jehovah, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of
Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. |
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| 2 Kings 18:17 |
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And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris
and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto 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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:18 |
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And when they had called to the king, there
came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah
the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. |
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| 2 Kings 18:19 |
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And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to
Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest? |
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| 2 Kings 18:20 |
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Thou sayest (but they are but vain words), There
is counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast
rebelled against me? |
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| 2 Kings 18:21 |
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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of
this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon 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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:22 |
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But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our
God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away,
and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in
Jerusalem? |
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| 2 Kings 18:23 |
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Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to
my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou
be able on thy part to set riders upon them. |
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| 2 Kings 18:24 |
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How then canst 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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| 2 Kings 18:25 |
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Am I now come up without Jehovah against this
place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy
it. |
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| 2 Kings 18:26 |
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Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah,
and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears
of the people that are on the wall. |
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| 2 Kings 18:27 |
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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 that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own
water with you? |
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| 2 Kings 18:28 |
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Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud
voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great
king, the king of Assyria. |
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| 2 Kings 18:29 |
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Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand: |
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| 2 Kings 18:30 |
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neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah,
saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into
the hand of the king of Assyria. |
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| 2 Kings 18:31 |
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the
king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every
one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters
of his own cistern; |
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| 2 Kings 18:32 |
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Until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a
land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not
unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. |
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| 2 Kings 18:33 |
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Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered
his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
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| 2 Kings 18:34 |
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Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad?
where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria
out of my hand? |
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| 2 Kings 18:35 |
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Who are they among all the gods of the countries,
that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand? |
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| 2 Kings 18:36 |
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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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| 2 Kings 18:37 |
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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 Rabshakeh. |
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