1Now in the third yeere of Hoshea, sonne of Elah King of Israel, Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaz king of Iudah began to reigne.

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

2He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twenty yeere in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah,

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

3And he did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Dauid his father had done.

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

4He tooke away the hie places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for vnto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it, and hee called it Nehushtan.

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

5He trusted in the Lord God of Israel: so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Iudah, neither were there any such before him.

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

6For he claue to the Lord, and departed not from him, but kept his commandements, which the Lord had commanded Moses.

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

7So the Lord was with him, and he prospered in all thinges, which he tooke in hande: also he rebelled against the King of Asshur, and serued him not.

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

8He smote the Philistims vnto Azzah, and the coastes thereof, from the watch towre vnto the defensed citie.

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

9And in the fourth yere of King Hezekiah, (which was the seuenth yeere of Hoshea sonne of Elah King of Israel) Shalmaneser King of Asshur came vp against Samaria, and besieged it.

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

10And after three yeeres they tooke it, euen in the sixt yeere of Hezekiah: that is, the ninth yeere of Hoshea King of Israel was Samaria taken.

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

11Then the King of Asshur did carry away Israel vnto Asshur, and put them in Halah and in Habor, by the riuer of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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

12Because they woulde not obey the voyce of the Lord their God, but transgressed his couenant: that is, all that Moses the seruant of the Lord had commanded, and would neyther obey nor doe them.

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

13Moreouer, in the fourteenth yeere of King Hezekiah, Saneherib King of Asshur came vp against all the strong cities of Iudah, and tooke them.

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

14Then Hezekiah King of Iudah sent vnto the King of Asshur to Lachish, saying, I haue offended: depart from me, and what thou layest vpon me, I wil beare it. And the King of Asshur appoynted vnto Hezekiah King of Iudah three hudreth talents of siluer, and thirty talets of golde.

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

15Therefore Hezekiah gaue all the siluer that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the Kings house.

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

16At the same season did Hezekiah pul off the plates of the doores of the Temple of the Lord, and the pillars (which the sayd Hezekiah King of Iudah had couered ouer) and gaue them to the King of Asshur.

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

17And the King of Asshur sent Tartan, and Rab-saris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great hoste against Ierusalem. And they went vp, and came to Ierusalem, and when they were come vp, they stood by the conduite of the vpper poole, which is by the path of the fullers fielde,

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

18And called to the King. Then came out to them Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder.

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

19And Rabshakeh sayde vnto them, Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, Thus saith the great King, euen the great King of Asshur, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

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

20Thou thinkest, Surely I haue eloquence, but counsell and strength are for the warre. On whom then doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

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

21Lo, thou trustest now in this broken staffe of reede, to wit, on Egypt, on which if a man leane, it will goe into his hand, and pearce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt vnto all that trust on him.

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

22But if ye say vnto me, We trust in the Lord our God, is not that he whose hie places, and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath sayd to Iudah and Ierusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Ierusalem?

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

23Now therefore giue hostages to my lord the King of Asshur, and I will giue thee two thousand horses, if thou be able to set riders vpon them.

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

24For how canst thou despise any captaine of the least of my masters seruants, and put thy trust on Egypt for charets and horsemen?

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

25Am I now come vp without the Lord to this place, to destroy it? the Lord sayd to me, Goe vp against this land, and destroy it.

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

26Then Eliakim the sonne of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Ioah said vnto Rabshakeh, Speake I pray thee, to thy seruants in the Aramites language, for we vnderstand it, and talke not with vs in the Iewes tongue, in the audience of the people that are on the wall.

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

27But Rabshakeh saide vnto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speake these words, and not to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eate their owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with you?

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

28So Rabshakeh stoode and cryed with a loude voyce in the Iewes language, and spake, saying, Heare the wordes of the great King, of the king of Asshur.

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

29Thus sayth the King, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you: for he shall not be able to deliuer you out of mine hand.

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

30Neither let Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliuer vs, and this citie shall not be giuen ouer into the hand of the king of Asshur.

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

31Hearken not vnto Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Asshur, Make appointment with me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate of his owne vine, and euery man of his owne figge tree, and drinke euery man of the water of his owne well,

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

32Till I come, and bring you to a land like your owne land, euen a land of wheate and wine, a land of bread and vineyardes, a lande of oliues oyle, and hony, that ye may liue and not die: and obey not Hezekiah, for he deceiueth you, saying, The Lord will deliuer vs.

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

33Hath any of the gods of the nations deliuered his lande out of the hand of the King of Asshur?

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

34Where is the god of Hamah, and of Arpad? where is the god of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah? how haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand?

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

35Who are they among all the gods of the nations, that haue deliuered their lande out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand?

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

36But the people helde their peace, and answered not him a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere ye him not.

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

37Then Eliakim, the sonne of Hilkiah which was steward of the house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the sonne of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes of Rabshakeh.

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