New Altar made. Hoshea's Reign over Israel. Israel conquered by Assyria ing burnt-offering, and the evening | Israel away unto Assyria, and meal-offering, and the king's burnt-placed them in Halah, and on the offering, and his meal-offering, with Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the burnt-offering of all the people the cities of the Medes. of the land, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

17 And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone. 18 And the covered way for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he unto the house of Jehovah, because of the king of Assyria. 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

7 And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; 10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree; 11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger; 12 and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. 13 Yet Jehovah testified unto Is

17 In the twelfth year of Ahazrael, and unto Judah, by every

king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried 1 Or, covered place 2 Or, round

prophet, and every seer, saying,
Turn ye from your evil ways, and
keep my commandments and my
statutes, according to all the law
which I commanded your fathers,
and which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets. 14 Not-
withstanding, they would not hear,
but hardened their neck, like to
the neck of their fathers, who be-
lieved not in Jehovah their God.
15 And they rejected his statutes,
and his covenant that he made
with their fathers, and his testi-
monies which he testified unto
them; and they followed vanity,
and became vain, and went after the
nations that were round about them,
concerning whom Jehovah ba
charged them that they should
do like them. 16 And they for
all the commandments of Jel
3 Or, practised
4 Or, obelisku

Rabshakeh's Defiant Speech. Hezekiah is alarmed

the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the 2 recorder.

19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 20 Thou sayest (but they are but vain words), There is counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? 21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, 4 give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the 5 Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, hath he not to speak these words? t sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you? 28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' lan

guage, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the ki of Assyria. 29 Thus saith the kin Let not Hezekiah deceive you; f he will not be able to deliver you o of his hand: 30 neither let Hezekia make you trust in Jehovah, sayin Jehovah will surely deliver us, an this city shall not be given into th hand of the king of Assyria. 3 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thu saith the king of Assyria, 6 Mak your peace with me, and come ou to me; and eat ye every one of hi vine, and every one of his fig-tree and drink yẹ every one the water of his own cistern; 32 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 vine yards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. 33 Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

And it came to pass when

19 King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Jehovah. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with 6 Heb. Make with me a blessing.

Hezekiah is comforted by Isaiah. Hezekiah's Prayer

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sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet | letter from the hand of the messenthe son of Amoz. 3 And they said gers, and read it; and Hezekiah unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This went up unto the house of Jehovah, day is a day of trouble, and of re- and spread it before Jehovah. 15 buke, and of contumely; for the chil- And Hezekiah prayed before Jehodren are come to the birth, and there vah, and said, O Jehovah, the God is not strength to bring forth. 4 It of Israel, that sittest above the may be Jehovah thy God will hear cherubim, thou art the God, even all the words of Rabshakeh, whom thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the king of Assyria his master hath the earth; thou hast made heaven sent to defy the living God, and and earth. 16 Incline thine ear, O will rebuke the words which Jeho- Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, vah thy God hath heard; wherefore O Jehovah, and see; and hear the lift up thy prayer for the remnant words of Sennacherib, wherewith that is left. 5 So the servants of he hath sent him to defy the living king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 God. 17 Of a truth, Jehovah, the And Isaiah said unto them, Thus kings of Assyria have laid waste the shall ye say to your master, Thus nations and their lands, 18 and have saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the cast their gods into the fire; for they words that thou hast heard, where- were no gods, but the work of men's with the servants of the king of hands, wood and stone; therefore Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 they have destroyed them. 19 Now Behold, I will put a spirit in him, therefore, O Jehovah our God, save and he shall hear tidings, and shall thou us, I beseech thee, out of his return to his own land; and I will hand, that all the kingdoms of the cause him to fall by the sword in his earth may know that thou Jehovah own land. art God alone.

8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by 2 destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sephar vaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard thee. 21 This is the word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 23 By thy messengers thou hast defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice "fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. 24 I have digged a

Isaiah's Prophecy of Deliverance. Hezekiah sick. His Life prolonged drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

25 Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

27 But I know thy sitting down, and 20 In those days was Hezekia

Hezekiah shows his Treasures to Babylonians. Manasseh's great Wickedness day? 9 And Isaiah said, This shall the palace of the king of Babylon. be the sign unto thee from Jehovah, 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, that Jehovah will do the thing that Good is the word of Jehovah which he hath spoken: shall the shadow thou hast spoken. He said morego forward ten 2steps, or go back over, Is it not so, if peace and truth ten steps? 10 And Hezekiah an- shall be in my days? 20 Now the swered, It is a light thing for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all shadow to decline ten steps: nay, his might, and how he made the but let the shadow return backward pool, and the conduit, and brought ten steps. 11 And Isaiah the prophet water into the city, are they not cried unto Jehovah; and he brought written in the book of the chronthe shadow ten steps backward, by icles of the kings of Judah? 21 And which it had gone down on the dial. Hezekiah slept with his fathers; of Ahaz. and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.