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He set up camp [to attack] the fortified cities. He intended to conquer them himself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to wage war against Jerusalem, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>he, his officers, and his military staff made plans to stop the water from flowing out of the springs outside the city. They helped him do it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>A large crowd gathered as they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land. They said, "Why should the kings of Assyria find plenty of water?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Hezekiah worked hard. He rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall, made the towers taller, built another wall outside [the city wall], strengthened the Millo in the City of David, and made plenty of weapons and shields. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He appointed military commanders over the troops and gathered the commanders in the square by the city gate. He spoke these words of encouragement: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"Be strong and courageous. Don't be frightened or terrified by the king of Assyria or the crowd with him. Someone greater is on our side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The king of Assyria has human power on his side, but the LORD our God is on our side to help us and fight our battles." So the people were encouraged by what King Hezekiah of Judah said.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>After this, while King Sennacherib of Assyria and all his royal forces were attacking Lachish, he sent his officers to King Hezekiah of Judah and to all of the people in Judah who were in Jerusalem to say: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>"This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: Why are you so confident as you live in Jerusalem while it is blockaded? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Isn't Hezekiah misleading you and abandoning you to die from hunger and thirst when he says, 'The LORD our God will rescue us from the king of Assyria?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Isn't this the same Hezekiah who got rid of the LORD's places of worship and altars and told Judah and Jerusalem, 'Worship and sacrifice at one altar?' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Don't you know what I and my predecessors have done to the people of all other countries? Were any of the gods of these other nations ever able to rescue their countries from me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Were the gods of these nations able to rescue their people from my control? My predecessors claimed and destroyed those nations. Is your God able to rescue you from my control? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Don't let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you like this. Don't believe him. No god of any nation or kingdom could save his people from me or my ancestors. Certainly, your God will not rescue you from me!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Sennacherib's officers said more against the LORD God and his servant Hezekiah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Sennacherib wrote letters cursing the LORD God of Israel. These letters said, "As the gods of the nations in other countries couldn't rescue their people from me, Hezekiah's God cannot rescue his people from me." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Sennacherib's officers shouted loudly in the Judean language to the troops who were on the wall of Jerusalem. They tried to frighten and terrify the troops so that they could capture the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the gods made by human hands and worshiped by the people in other countries.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, prayed about this and called to heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The LORD sent an angel who exterminated all the soldiers, officials, and commanders in the Assyrian king's camp. Humiliated, Sennacherib returned to his own country. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with a sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem from King Sennacherib of Assyria and from everyone else. The LORD gave them peace with all their neighbors. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Many people still went to Jerusalem to bring gifts to the LORD and expensive presents to King Hezekiah of Judah. From then on, he was considered important by all the nations.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In those days Hezekiah became sick and was about to die. He prayed to the LORD, who answered him and gave him a miraculous sign. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But Hezekiah was conceited, so he didn't repay the LORD for his kindness. The LORD became angry with him, with Judah, and with Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Hezekiah and the people living in Jerusalem humbled themselves when they realized they had become conceited. So the LORD didn't vent his anger on them during Hezekiah's time.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hezekiah became richer and was highly honored. He prepared storerooms for himself to hold silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuables. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He made sheds to store his harvests of grain, new wine, and fresh olive oil, and he made barns for all his cattle and stalls for his flocks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He made cities for himself because he had many sheep and cattle. God had given him a lot of property. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Hezekiah was the one who stopped the water from flowing from the upper outlet of Gihon. He channeled the water directly underground to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>When the leaders of Babylon sent ambassadors to ask him about the miraculous sign that had happened in the land, God left him. God did this to test him, to find out everything that was in Hezekiah's heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Everything else about Hezekiah, including his devotion to God, is written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, and in the records of the kings of Judah and Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Hezekiah lay down in death with his ancestors. He was buried in the upper tombs of David's descendants. When Hezekiah died, all of Judah and the people in Jerusalem honored him. His son Manasseh succeeded him as king.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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