II Kings 18

1In the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah, the king of Israel: Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, reigned as king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 28:27, 2 Chronicles 29:1, 2 Chronicles 28:27, 2 Chronicles 29:1, Matthew 1:9

2He was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

2 Chronicles 29:1, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Chronicles 29:1, 2 Chronicles 29:2

3And he did what was good before the Lord, in accord with all that his father David had done.

2 Kings 20:3, 2 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 11:38, 1 Kings 11:4, 2 Chronicles 29:2

4He destroyed the high places, and he crushed the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves. And he broke apart the bronze serpent, which Moses had made. For even until that time, the sons of Israel were burning incense to it. And he called its name Nehushtan.

2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:1, Numbers 21:8, Numbers 21:9, Numbers 21:8

5He hoped in the Lord, the God of Israel. And after him, there was no one similar to him, among all the kings of Judah, nor even among any of those who were before him.

2 Kings 23:25, 2 Kings 23:25, 2 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 19:10, Matthew 27:43

6And he clung to the Lord, and he did not withdraw from his footsteps, and he carried out his commandments, which the Lord had instructed to Moses.

Joshua 23:8, Deuteronomy 10:20, Joshua 23:8, Deuteronomy 10:20, John 14:15

7Therefore, the Lord was also with him. And he conducted himself wisely in all the things to which he went forth. Also, he rebelled against the king of the Assyrians, and he did not serve him.

2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:7, Psalms 60:12, Romans 8:31, Genesis 39:2

8He struck the Philistines as far as Gaza, and in all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

Isaiah 14:29, 2 Kings 17:9, Isaiah 14:29, 2 Kings 17:9, 2 Chronicles 28:18

9In the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, the son of Elah, the king of Israel: Shalmaneser, the king of the Assyrians, ascended to Samaria, and he fought against it,

Hosea 10:14, Hosea 10:14, 2 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 17:3, 2 Kings 17:23

10and he seized it. For after three years, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, in the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

Micah 6:16, Amos 6:7, Micah 7:13, Hosea 13:16, Amos 3:11

11And the king of the Assyrians took away Israel into Assyria. And he located them in Halah and in Habor, at the rivers of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

1 Chronicles 5:26, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Isaiah 37:12, 2 Kings 17:6, Isaiah 37:12

12For they did not listen to the voice of the Lord, their God. Instead, they transgressed his covenant. All that Moses, the servant of the Lord, had instructed, they would neither hear, nor do.

2 Timothy 2:24, Deuteronomy 29:24, Deuteronomy 29:28, Isaiah 1:19, Deuteronomy 11:28

13In the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, went up to all the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them.

Isaiah 36:1, Isaiah 36:22, Isaiah 36:1, Isaiah 36:22, Isaiah 10:5

14Then Hezekiah, the king of Judah, sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians at Lachish, saying: “I have offended. Withdraw from me, and all that you will impose upon me, I will bear.” And so the king of the Assyrians levied a tax upon Hezekiah, the king of Judah, of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:7, 2 Kings 18:7, Luke 14:32, Proverbs 29:25, 1 Kings 20:4

15And Hezekiah gave all the silver that had been found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king.

2 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:18, 1 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:18

16At that time, Hezekiah broke apart the doors of the temple of the Lord, with the plates of gold which he had affixed to them. And he gave these to the king of the Assyrians.

2 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Kings 6:31, 1 Kings 6:35, 2 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Kings 6:31

17Then the king of the Assyrians sent Tartan, and Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh, from Lachish, to king Hezekiah, with a powerful hand, to Jerusalem. And when they had ascended, they arrived in Jerusalem, and they stood beside the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is along the way of the fuller’s field.

2 Kings 20:20, Isaiah 20:1, Isaiah 7:3, 2 Kings 20:20, Isaiah 20:1

18And they called for the king. But there went out to them Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the keeper of records.

2 Kings 19:2, 2 Kings 19:2, Isaiah 22:15, Isaiah 22:24, Isaiah 36:3

19And Rabshakeh said to them: “Speak to Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this faith, in which you strive?

Isaiah 36:4, Isaiah 36:4, Daniel 4:30, 2 Kings 19:10, Daniel 4:30

20Perhaps, you have taken counsel, so that you would prepare yourself for battle. In whom do you trust, so that you would dare to rebel?

Proverbs 21:30, Proverbs 21:31, Proverbs 21:30, Proverbs 21:31

21Do you hope in Egypt, that staff of a broken reed, which, if a man would lean upon it, breaking, it would pierce his hand? Such is Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all who would trust in him.

Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 30:7, Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7, Isaiah 30:2

22But if you say to me: ‘We have faith in the Lord, our God.’ Is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away? And did he not instruct Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You shall adore before this altar in Jerusalem?’

2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 1 Corinthians 2:15, 2 Chronicles 32:12, Isaiah 36:7

23Now therefore, cross over to my lord, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give to you two thousand horses, and we will see if you even have enough riders for them.

1 Kings 20:10, Nehemiah 4:2, Nehemiah 4:5, 1 Samuel 17:42, Isaiah 36:8

24So how can you resist one prince from the least of my lord’s servants? Do you have faith in Egypt because of the chariots and horsemen?

Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 31:3, Jeremiah 42:14, Jeremiah 42:18

25Is it not by the will of the Lord that I have chosen to ascend to this place, so that I may destroy it? The Lord said to me: ‘Ascend to this land, and destroy it.’ ”

2 Kings 19:6, 2 Kings 19:6, 2 Kings 19:22, 2 Kings 19:37, John 19:10

26Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh: “We beseech you, that you may speak to us, your servants, in Syriac. For we understand that language to some extent. And do not speak to us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people, who are upon the wall.”

Ezra 4:7, Ezra 4:7, Daniel 2:4, Daniel 2:4, Isaiah 36:11

27And Rabshakeh responded to them, saying: “Has my lord sent me to your lord and to you, so that I may speak these words, and not instead to the men who are sitting upon the wall, so that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you?”

Lamentations 4:5, Ezekiel 4:13, Ezekiel 4:15, Deuteronomy 28:53, Deuteronomy 28:57

28And so, Rabshakeh stood up, and he exclaimed in a great voice, in the Jews’ language, and he said: “Listen to the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians.

Isaiah 36:13, Isaiah 36:18, Isaiah 36:13, Isaiah 36:18, Psalms 47:2

29Thus says the king: Let not Hezekiah lead you astray. For he will not be able to rescue you from my hand.

2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Daniel 3:15

30And do not let him give you faith in the Lord, saying: ‘The Lord will rescue and free us, and this city will not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.’

2 Kings 19:22, 2 Kings 19:10, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 125:1

31Do not choose to listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of the Assyrians: Do with me what is for your own good, and come out to me. And each one of you will eat from his own vine, and from his own fig tree. And you shall drink water from your own wells,

1 Kings 4:25, 1 Kings 4:25, 1 Kings 4:20, Zechariah 3:10, 1 Kings 4:20

32until I arrive and transfer you into a land, similar to your own land, a fruitful and fertile land of wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives and oil and honey. And you will live, and not die. Do not choose to listen to Hezekiah, who deceives you, saying: ‘The Lord will free us.’

Deuteronomy 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:9, Deuteronomy 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:9, Deuteronomy 11:12

33Have any of the gods of the nations freed their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 10:10, Isaiah 10:11, Isaiah 10:10, Isaiah 10:11, 2 Chronicles 32:14

34Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Avva? Have they freed Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 10:9, Isaiah 10:9, Jeremiah 49:23, 2 Kings 17:23, 2 Kings 17:33

35Which ones among all the gods of the lands have rescued their region from my hand, so that the Lord would be able to rescue Jerusalem from my hand?”

Daniel 3:15, Daniel 3:15, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Isaiah 10:15

36But the people were silent, and they did not respond at all to him. For indeed, they had received an instruction from the king that they should not respond to him.

Psalms 39:1, Matthew 7:6, Amos 5:13, Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 26:4

37And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the keeper of records, went to Hezekiah with their garments torn. And they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 33:7, 2 Kings 6:30, Matthew 26:65, Genesis 37:34, 2 Kings 18:26

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