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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
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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. His mother's name
also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. |
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| 2 Kings 18:3 |
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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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| 2 Kings 18:4 |
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He removed the high places, and brake the images,
and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen 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 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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| 2 Kings 18:6 |
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For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from
following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. |
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| 2 Kings 18:7 |
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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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| 2 Kings 18:8 |
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He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and
the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced 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:
even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is in 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 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: |
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| 2 Kings 18:12 |
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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. |
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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 fenced 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 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. |
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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, which was over the household, and
Shebna 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, Speak 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,)
I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
rebellest 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, 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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:22 |
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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? |
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| 2 Kings 18:23 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:24 |
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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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| 2 Kings 18:25 |
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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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:26 |
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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. |
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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 which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink
their own piss 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 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 shall 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 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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| 2 Kings 18:31 |
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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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| 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 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. |
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| 2 Kings 18:33 |
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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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| 2 Kings 18:34 |
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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? |
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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 mine hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of mine 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, 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. |
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