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II KINGS ยท Chapter 18
18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king
of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
18:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
to all that David his father did.
18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down
the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made:
for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and
he called it Nehushtan.
18:5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none
like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him,
but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
18:7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered anywhere he went forth:
and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
18:8 He stroke the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which
was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser
king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria
was taken.
18:11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and
put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities
of the Medes:
18:12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but
transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded,
and would not hear them, nor do them.
18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king
of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish,
saying, I have offended; return from me: that which you put on me will
I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three
hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
18:15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house
of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of
the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah
had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And
they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came
and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of
the launderer's field.
18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
18:19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak all of you now to Hezekiah,
Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein you trust?
18:20 You says, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength
for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?
18:21 Now, behold, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even
upon Egypt, on which 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.
18:22 But if all of you say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God:
is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away,
and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, All of you shall worship before this
altar in Jerusalem?
18:23 Now therefore, I pray you, give pledges to my lord the king of
Assyria, and I will deliver you two thousand horses, if you be able on
your part to set riders upon them.
18:24 How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
18:25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy
it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, to your servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the
ears of the people that are on the wall.
18:27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Has my master sent me to your master,
and to you, to speak these words? has he not sent me to the men which sit
on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss
with you?
18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king
of Assyria:
18:29 Thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall
not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into
the hand of the king of Assyria.
18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make
an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat all
of you every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink
all of you every one the waters of his cistern:
18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive
and of honey, that all of you may live, and not die: and hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
18:33 Has any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine
hand?
18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered
their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem
out of mine hand?
18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word:
for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which 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.
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