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You think mere words are strategy and strength for war. What are you now relying on so that you have rebelled against me?
Look, you are now trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff
Have I attacked this place to destroy it without the Lord’s approval?
“So now make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria. I’ll give you 2,000 horses if you’re able to supply riders for them!
Suppose you say to me: We trust in the Lord our God. Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed,
But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Hasn’t he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
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 honey
The Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew.
This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive
How then can you drive back a single officer
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,
“Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace
Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered
Who among all the gods of the lands has delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem?’”
In the third year of Israel’s King Hoshea
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
He was 25 years old when he became king and reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian,
Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan,
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel;
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his ancestor David had done.
But the people kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”
Then they called for the king, but Eliakim
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?
So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish,
The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and put them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan’s river, and in the cities of the Medes,
The Lord was with him, and wherever he went he prospered.
He remained faithful to Yahweh
The Assyrians captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Israel’s King Hoshea, Samaria was captured.
At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the Lord’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders,
because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord their God but violated His covenant—all He had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.
So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.