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2 Chronicles 32:1
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After these things, and the establishment thereof,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against
the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:2 |
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And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was
come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:3 |
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He took counsel with his princes and his mighty
men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they
did help him. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:4 |
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So there was gathered much people together,
who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the
land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:5 |
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Also he strengthened himself, and built up all
the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without,
and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:6 |
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And he set captains of war over the people,
and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake
comfortably to them, saying, |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:7 |
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Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor
dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him:
for there be more with us than with him: |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:8 |
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With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is
the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves
upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:9 |
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After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send
his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all
his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were
at Jerusalem, saying, |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:10 |
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Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon
do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:11 |
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Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over
yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver
us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:12 |
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Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high
places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship
before one altar, and burn incense upon it? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:13 |
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Know ye not what I and my fathers have done
unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands
any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:14 |
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Who was there among all the gods of those nations
that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand,
that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:15 |
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Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you,
nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation
or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand
of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:16 |
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And his servants spake yet more against the
LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:17 |
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He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God
of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other
lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of
Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:18 |
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Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and
to trouble them; that they might take the city. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:19 |
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And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,
as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands
of man. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:20 |
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And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the
prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:21 |
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And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all
the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king
of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was
come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him
there with the sword. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:22 |
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Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand
of all other, and guided them on every side. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:23 |
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And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem,
and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight
of all nations from thenceforth. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:24 |
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In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death,
and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:25 |
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But Hezekiah rendered not again according to
the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath
upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:26 |
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Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for
the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the
wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:27 |
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And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour:
and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones,
and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:28 |
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Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and
wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:29 |
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Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions
of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:30 |
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This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse
of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.
And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:31 |
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Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of
the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done
in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his
heart. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:32 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his
goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son
of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 32:33 |
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And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his
son reigned in his stead. |
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