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His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He held fast to the LORD and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the LORD was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In King Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah's sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant--all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me." The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and gave it to the king of Assyria.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: "'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You say you have the counsel and the might for war--but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"--isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses--if you can put riders on them!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.'"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall--who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">until I come and take you to a land like your own--a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.'<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href="//niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="//biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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