2 Kings 18 ~ 19

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18:1And in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, the king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, the king of Judah, began to reign. Compare
18:2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. Compare
18:3And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done. Compare
18:4He removed the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherah and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel had burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. Compare
18:5He trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel, so that after him there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any among those who were before him. Compare
18:6And he clung to Jehovah; he did not turn away from following after Him but kept His commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses. Compare
18:7And Jehovah was with him; everywhere he went, he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him. Compare
18:8He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city. Compare
18:9And in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, the king of Israel, Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. Compare
18:10And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Israel, Samaria was taken. Compare
18:11And the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes; Compare
18:12For they would not listen to the voice of Jehovah their God but transgressed His covenant, that is, all that Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded; and they would not listen to it nor do it. Compare
18:13And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib the king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. Compare
18:14And Hezekiah the king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, I have sinned; withdraw from me. I will bear whatever you impose upon me. And the king of Assyria imposed upon Hezekiah the king of Judah a levy of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Compare
18:15And Hezekiah gave all the silver that was found in the house of Jehovah and in the treasuries of the king's house. Compare
18:16At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the temple of Jehovah and the posts that Hezekiah the king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave them to the king of Assyria. Compare
18:17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a great force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they came up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the road to the Fuller's Field. Compare
18:18And they called out to the king. And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. Compare
18:19And Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What is this confidence in which you trust? Compare
18:20You say (but it is a vain word), There is counsel and strength for war. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? Compare
18:21You now have put your trust in the staff of this broken reed, in Egypt, in that which, if a man should lean on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it; so is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who trust in him. Compare
18:22And if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship only before this altar in Jerusalem? Compare
18:23Now therefore give pledges to my master, the king of Assyria; and I will give you two thousand horses, if indeed you are able to set the riders on them. Compare
18:24How then can you refuse one official of the least of my master's servants and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? Compare
18:25Have I now come up apart from Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. Compare
18:26And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebnah and Joah said to Rab-shakeh, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, because we understand it; and do not speak with us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are upon the wall. Compare
18:27But Rab-shakeh said to them, Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you? Compare
18:28And Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language and spoke and said, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: Compare
18:29Thus says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, because he is not able to deliver you out of my hand. Compare
18:30Neither let Hezekiah cause you to trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Compare
18:31Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and let each eat from his own vine and each from his own fig tree, and let each drink the waters of his own cistern, Compare
18:32Until I come and take you away to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die. So do not listen to Hezekiah when he tries to persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Compare
18:33Have any of the gods of the nations delivered at all their land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Compare
18:34Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? And have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? Compare
18:35Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? Compare
18:36But the people were silent and did not answer him a word, because of the commandment of the king that said, You shall not answer him. Compare
18:37Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rab-shakeh. Compare
19:1And when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of Jehovah. Compare
19:2And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, who had covered themselves with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. Compare
19:3And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of affliction and rebuke and contempt, for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. Compare
19:4It may be that Jehovah your God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant which is left. Compare
19:5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. Compare
19:6And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says Jehovah, Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. Compare
19:7Indeed, I will put a spirit in him, so that he will hear a report and return to his land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. Compare
19:8And Rab-shakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, because he had heard that the king had departed from Lachish. Compare
19:9And he heard a report about Tirhakah the king of Ethiopia, which said, He has now come forth to make war with you. And he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, Compare
19:10Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah the king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Compare
19:11Indeed, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And will you be delivered? Compare
19:12Have the gods of the nations whom my fathers have destroyed delivered them: Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden, who were in Telassar? Compare
19:13Where are the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? Compare
19:14And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and Hezekiah went up to the house of Jehovah and spread it before Jehovah. Compare
19:15And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah and said, O Jehovah, God of Israel, who is enthroned between the cherubim, You, You alone, are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; You made the heavens and the earth. Compare
19:16Incline Your ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open Your eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, who has sent him to reproach the living God. Compare
19:17Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, Compare
19:18And have cast their gods into the fire, because they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they destroyed them. Compare
19:19And now, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O Jehovah, are God. Compare
19:20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard. Compare
19:21This is the word which Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion / Has despised you and laughed at you; / The daughter of Jerusalem / Has shaken her head behind you. Compare
19:22Whom have you reproached and reviled? / Against whom have you lifted up your voice / And lifted up your eyes haughtily? / Against the Holy One of Israel. Compare
19:23By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, / And you have said, In the multitude of my chariots / I have come up to the height of the mountains, / To the sides of Lebanon; / And I have cut down its tall cedars, / And the choicest of its cypresses; / And I have entered into its farthest lodging place, / And its luxuriant forest. Compare
19:24I have dug / And have drunk foreign waters, / And with the sole of my feet I have dried up / All the rivers of Egypt. Compare
19:25Have you not heard / That long ago I did it And that from the days of old I had formed it? / Now I have brought it to pass, / That you should destroy fortified cities / And make them into ruinous heaps. Compare
19:26Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength; / They were dismayed and felt ashamed; / They were like vegetation of the field / And green shoots of tender grass, / Like grass which grows on the housetops / And is scorched before it has grown up. Compare
19:27But I know your sitting down, / And your going out and your coming in, / And your raging against Me. Compare
19:28Because your raging against Me / And your arrogance have come up into My ears, / I will put My hook in your nose, / And My bridle in your lips; / And I will turn you back on the way by which you came. Compare
19:29And this shall be the sign to you: This year you shall eat that which grows up of itself, and in the second year that which shoots up from the same, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Compare
19:30And the remnant of those who have escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. Compare
19:31For a remnant will go forth out of Jerusalem, and from Mount Zion those who have escaped. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this. Compare
19:32Therefore thus says Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, / Nor shoot an arrow there; / Neither shall he come against it with a shield / And build up a mound against it. Compare
19:33By the way on which he came, / By the same shall he return, / And into this city he shall not come, / Declares Jehovah. Compare
19:34And around this city I will put an enclosure, / To save it, / For My own sake, / And for the sake of David, My servant. Compare
19:35And that night an angel of Jehovah went out and struck the Assyrians' camp, a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they rose up early in the morning, all of them were dead corpses. Compare
19:36Then Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and went back to dwell in Nineveh. Compare
19:37And as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him down with the sword; and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. Compare

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