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Chapter 18 Now it came to pass in the
third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of

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Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king
of Judah began to reign.

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Twenty and five years old was he when he
began to reign, and he reigned twenty and

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nine years in Jerusalem.

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His mother's name also was Abai,
the daughter of Zechariah, and he did that

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which was right in the sight of the Lord,
according to all that David his father

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did.

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He removed the high places, and break the
images, and cut down the groves,

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and break in pieces the brass and serpent
that Moses had made.

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For unto those days the children of Israel
did burn incense to it, and he called it

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Nehushtan, he trusted in the Lord God of
Israel.

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So that after him was none like him among
all the kings of Judah, nor any that were

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before him.

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For he claimed to the Lord, and departed
not from following him, but kept his

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commandments, which the Lord commanded
Moses, and the Lord was with him.

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And he prospered whithersoever he went
forth, and he rebelled against the king of

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Assyria, and served him not.

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He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza
and the borders thereof, from the tower of

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the watchman to the fenced city.

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And it came to pass in the fourth year of
king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year

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of Hosea son of Elah king of Israel,
that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up

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against Samaria and besieged it.

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And at the end of three years they took
it.

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Even in the sixth year of Hezekiah,
that is the ninth year of Hosea king of

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Israel, Samaria was taken.

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And the king of Assyria did carry away
Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Hela

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and in Hebor, by the river of Gozan and in
the cities of the Medes.

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Because they obeyed not the voice of the
Lord their God, but transgressed his

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covenant and all that Moses the servant of
the Lord commanded, and would not hear

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them nor do them.

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Now in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria

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come up against all the fenced cities of
Judah and took them.

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And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the
king of Assyria to Lachish, saying,

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I have offended.

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Return from me.

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That which thou puttest on me will I bear.

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And the king of Assyria appointed unto
Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred

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talents of silver and thirty talents of
gold.

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And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that
was found in the house of the Lord and in

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the treasures of the king's house.

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At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold
from the doors of the temple of the Lord

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and from the pillars which Hezekiah king
of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the

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king of Assyria.

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And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and
Rabsiris and Rabshaka from Lachish to king

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Hezekiah with a great host against
Jerusalem.

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And they went up and came to Jerusalem.

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And when they were come up, they came and
stood by the conduit of the upper pool,

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which is in the highway of the fuller's
field.

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And when they had called to the king,
they came out to them Eliakim,

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the son of Hilkiah, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe,

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and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

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And Rabshaka said unto them, Speak ye now
to Hezekiah.

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Thus saith the great king, the king of
Assyria, What confidence is this wherein

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thou trustest?

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Thou sayest, But they are but vain words.

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I have counsel and strength for the war.

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Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
rebellest against me?

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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff
of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt,

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on which, if a man lean, it will go into
his hand and pierce it.

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So is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that
trust on him.

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But if ye say unto me, We trust in the
Lord our God, is not that he whose high

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places and whose altars Hezekiah hath
taken away and hath said to Judah and

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Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this
altar in Jerusalem?

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Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges
to my Lord, the king of Assyria,

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and I will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set

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riders upon them.

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How then wilt thou turn away the face of
one captain of the least of my master's

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servants and put thy trust on Egypt for
chariots and for horsemen?

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Am I now come up without the Lord against
this place to destroy it?

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The Lord said to me, Go up against this
land and destroy it.

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Then said Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah,
and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rapshachah,

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Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
Syrian language, for we understand it,

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and talk not with us in the Jews' language
in the ears of the people that are on the

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wall.

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But Rapshachah said unto them,
Hath my master sent me to thy master and

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to thee to speak these words?

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Hath he not sent me to the men which sit
on the wall, that they may eat their own

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dung and drink their own piss with you?

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Then Rapshachah stood and cried with a
loud voice in the Jews' language,

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and spake, saying, Hear the word of the
great king, the king of Assyria.

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Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah
deceive you, for he shall not be able to

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deliver you out of his hand.

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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the
Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver

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us, and this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Hearken not to Hezekiah, for thus saith
the king of Assyria, Make an agreement

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with me by a present, and come out to me,
and then eat ye every man of his own vine,

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and every one of his fig tree,
and drink ye every one the waters of his

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cistern, until I come and take you away to
a land like your own land, a land of corn

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and wine, a land of bread and vineyards,
a land of oil, olive, and of honey,

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that ye may live and not die.

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And hearken not unto Hezekiah,
when he persuadeth you, saying,

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The Lord will deliver us.

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Hath any of the gods of the nations
delivered at all his land out of the hand

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of the king of Assyria?

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Where are the gods of Hamath, and of
Arpad?

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Where are the gods of Sepharvaim,
Hannah, and Iva?

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Have they delivered Samaria out of mine
hand?

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Who are they among all the gods of the
countries that have delivered their

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country out of mine hand, that the Lord
should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

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But the people held their peace,
and answered him not a word.

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For the king's commandment was,
saying, Answer him not.

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Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
which was over the household, and Shebna

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the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the
recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes

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rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.