2 Kings 18:1-12 - Hezekiah Reigns In Judah

¹ And it will be in the third year to Hoshea son of Elah, king of Is rael, reigned Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah. ² The son of twenty and five years, was he in his reigning; and twenty and, nine years reigned he in Jerusalem 2Kings 18:and his mothers name Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. ³ And he will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all which, David his father did. ⁴ He removed the heights, and he brake in pieces the statues, and he cut off the image, and he beat down the serpent of brass which Moses made: for till those days the sons of Israel were burning incense to it and they called it brass.

⁵ And he trusted in Jehovah the God of Israel; and after him was not like him among all the kings of Judah, and who were before him. ⁶ And he will cleave upon Jehovah he turned not away from after him, and he will watch his commands which Jehovah commanded Moses.

⁷ And Jehovah was with him: in all which he will go forth he will prosper; and he will rebel against the king of Assur, and not serve him ⁸ He struck the rovers even to Azzah, and her bounds from the tower of those watching to the fortified city.

⁹ And it will be in the fourth year to king Hezekiah, this the seventh year to Hoshea son of Elah, king of Isreel, Shalmaneser, king of Assur, came up against Shomeron and pressed, upon it. ¹⁰ And he will take it from the end of three years: in the sixth year to Hezekiah, this the ninth year to Hoshea, king of Israel, Shomeron was taken. ¹¹ And the king of Assur will carry Israel into exile to Assur, and put them in Halah and Habor, the river of Gihon, and the cities of the Medes: ¹² Because they heard not to the voice of Jehovah their God, and they will pass by his covenant, all which Moses commanded, the servant of Jehovah, and they heard not and did not