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The wicked reign of Hoshea.

II. KINGS

Israel carried away captive.

forefront of the house, from between the before the children of Israel, and of the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it kings of Israel, which they had made. on the north side of the altar. 9 And the children of Israel did se

15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah cretly those things that were not right the priest, saying, Upon the great altar against the LORD their God, and they burn the morning burnt-offering, and the built them high places in all their cities, evening meat-offering, and the king's from the tower of the watchmen to the burnt-sacrifice, and his meat-offering, with fenced city.

the burnt-offering of all the people of the 10 And they set them up images and land, and their meat-offering, and their groves in every high hill, and under every drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all green tree:

the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the 11 And there they burnt incense in all blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar the high places, as did the heathen whom shall be for me to inquire by. the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do

17 ¶ And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off this thing. the brazen oxen that were under it, and 13 Yet the LORD testified against Isput it upon a pavement of stones. rael, and against Judah, by all the pro18 And the covert for the sabbath that phets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn they had built in the house, and the king's ye from your evil ways, and keep my entry without, turned he from the house of commandments, and my statutes, accordthe LORD for the king of Assyria. ing to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

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? 14 Notwithstanding, they would not 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and hear, but hardened their necks, like to was buried with his fathers in the city of the neck of their fathers, that did not beDavid: and Hezekiah his son reigned in lieve in the LORD their God. his stead.

CHAP. XVII.

Ν IN the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah, to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fa

thers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

3 Against him came up Shalmaneser 16 And they left all the commandments king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his of the LORD their God, and made them servant, and gave him presents. molten images, even two calves, and made 4 And the king of Assyria found con-a grove, and worshipped all the host of spiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent mes-heaven, and served Baal.

sengers to So,king of Egypt, and brought 17 And they caused their sons and their no present to the king of Assyria, as he had daughters to pass through the fire, and done year by year: therefore the king of used divination and enchantments, and Assyria shut him up, and bound him in sold themselves to do evil in the sight of prison. the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 5 Then the king of Assyria came up 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry throughout all the land, and went up to with Israel, and removed them out of his Samaria, and besieged it three years. sight: there was none left but the tribe of

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the Judah only. king of Assyria took Sąmaria, and carried 19 Also Judah kept not the commandIsrael away into Assyria, and placed them ments of the LORD their God, but walked in Halah and in Habor by the river of Go- in the statutes of Israel which they made. zan, and in the cities of the Medes. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed 7 For so it was, that the children of Is- of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered rael had sinned against the LORD their them into the hand of spoilers, until he Gol, which had brought them up out of had cast them out of his sight. the land of Egypt, from under the hand of 21 For he rent Israel from the house of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared David; and they made Jeroboam the son ⚫ other gods, of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel 8 And walked in the statutes of the from following the LORD, and made them heathen whom the LORD cast out from sin a great sin.

A mixture of religions.

CHAP. XVIII. The good reign of Hezekiah.

22 For the children of Israel walked in shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourall the sins of Jeroboam which he did; selves to them, nor serve them, nor sacri, they departed not from them; fice to them:

23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched-out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

24 And the king of Assyria brought 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and and the law, and the commandment which from Ava, and from Hamath, and from he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for Sepharvaim, and placed them in the ci- evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. ties of Samaria instead of the children of 38 And the covenant that I have made Israel and they possessed Samaria, and with you ye shall not forget; neither shail dwelt in the cities thereof. ye fear other gods.

25 And so it was at the beginning of 39 Butthe LORD your God ye shall fear; their dwelling there, that they feared not and he shall deliver you out of the hand the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions of all your enemies. among them, which slew some of them.

40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and thou hast removed, and placed in the cities served their graven images, both their chilof Samaria, know not the manner of the dren, and their children's children: as God of the land: therefore he hath sent did their fathers, so do they unto this day. lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

CHAP. XVIII.
TOW it came to pass in the third year

Now the son of Elah king of Israel, 27 Then the king of Assyria command- that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Jued, saying, Carry thither one of the priests dah began to reign.

whom ye brought from thence; and let them 2 Twenty and five years old was he go and dwell there, and let him teach when he began to reign; and he reigned them the manner of the God of the land. twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His 28 Then one of the priests whom they mother's name also was Abi the daughter had carried away from Samaria came and of Zachariah.

dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how 3 And he did that which was right in they should fear the LORD. the sight of the LORD, according to all that 29 Howbeit, every nation made gods David his father did. of their own, and put them in the houses 4 He removed the high places, and of the high places which the Samaritans brake the images, and cut down the groves, had made, every nation in their cities and brake in pieces the brazen serpent wherein they dwelt. that Moses had made: for unto those days 30 And the men of Babylon made Suc- the children of Israel did burn incense to coth-henoth, and the men of Cuth made it: and he called it Nehushtan. Nergal, and the men of Hamath made 5 He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; Ashiina, so that after him was none like him among 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and all the kings of Judah, nor any that were beTartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their fore him.

children in fire to Adrammelech and 6 For he clave to the LORD, and deAnammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. parted not from following him, but kept 32 So they feared the LORD, and made his commandments, which the LORD comunto themselves of the lowest of them manded Moses.

priests of the high places, which sacrificed 7 And the LORD was with him and for them in the houses of the high places. he prospered whithersoever he went forth: 33 They feared the LORD, and served and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, their own gods, after the manner of the na- and served him not.

tions whom they carried away from thence. 8 He smote the Philistines, even unto 34 Unto this day they do after the for- Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the mer manners: they fear not the LORD, tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. neither do they after their statutes, or af- 9 And it came to pass in the fourth ter their ordinances, or after the law and year of King Hezekiah, which was the commandment which the LORD command-seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of ed the children of Jacob, whom he named israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria Israel; came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 35 With whom the LORD had made a 10 And at the end of three years they covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye took it: even in the sixth year of Hezeki

Sennacherib besieges Hezekiah.

II. KINGS.

Samaria is carried captive,

ab, (that is,the ninth year of Hoshea king horses, if thou be able on thy part to set of Israel,)Samaria was taken. riders upon them.

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:

24 How then wilt 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 the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land,

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 and destroy it. not hear them, nor do them.

26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hil13 Now in the fourteenth year of king kiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto RabHezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy sercome up against all the fenced cities of vants in the Syrian language; for we unJudah, and took them. derstand it: and talk not with us in the

14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent Jews' language in the ears of the people to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, that are on the wall.

I have offended; return from me: that 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, which thou puttest on me I will bear. Hath my master sent me to thy master, And the king of Assyria appointed unto and to thee, to speak these words? hath he Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred not sent me to the men which sit on the talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. wall, that they may eat their own dung, 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the sil- and drink their own piss with you? ver that was found in the house of the LonD, 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried and in the treasures of the king's house. with a loud voice in the Jews' language, 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off and spake, saying, Hear the word of the the gold from the doors of the temple of great king, the king of Assyria: the LORD, and from the pillars which 29 Thus saith the king, Let not HezeHezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and kiah deceive you: for he shall not be able gave it to the king of Assyria. to deliver you out of his hand :

17 And the king of Assyria sent Tar- 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust tan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from in the LORD, saying, The LORD will sureLachish to king Hezekiah with a greatly deliver us, and this city shall not be dehost against Jerusalem: and they went livered into the hand of the king of Assyria. up, and came to Jerusalem: and when 31 Hearken not unto Hezekiah. for they were come up, they came and stood thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an by the conduit of the upper pool, which is agreement with me by a present, and come in the highway of the fuller's field.

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.

out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

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32 Until I come and take you away to land like your own land, a land of corn 19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them, and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith a land of oil-olive and of honey, that ye the great king, the king of Assyria, What may live, and not die and hearken not confidence is this wherein thou trustest? unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, 20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain saying, The LORD will deliver us. words,)I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

21 Now behold, thou trustest upon the 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharon which if a man lean, it will go into his vaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they deliverhand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king ed Samaria out of mine hand? of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

35 Who are they among all the gods of 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the countries that have delivered their the LORD our God: is not that he whose country out of mine hand, that the LORD high places and whose altars Hezekiah should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? hath taken away, and hath said to Judah 36 But the people held their peace, and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before and answered him not a word: for the this altar in Jerusalem? king's commandment was, saying, An

23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give swer him not. pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hiland I will deliver thee two thousand kiah, which was over the household, and

Hezekiah mourns.

CHAP. XIX.

Hezekiah's prayer.

Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the their clothes rent, and told him the words LORD and said, O LORD God of Israel, of Rab-shakel.

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CHAP. XIX.

which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

ND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sack- 16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: cloth, and went into the house of the LORD. Open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent the household, and Shebna the scribe, and him to reproach the living God. the elders of the priests, covered with 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of syria have destroyed the nations and their Amoz. lands,

3 And they said unto him, Thus saith 18 And have cast their gods into the Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, fire: for they were no gods, but the work and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the of men's hands, wood and stone: therechildren are come to the birth, and there fore they have destroyed them.

is not strength to bring forth.

19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I

4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the that all the kingdoms of the earth may king of Assyria his master hath sent to re- know that thou art the LORD God, even proach the living God; and will reprove thou only.

the words which the LORD thy God hath 20 T Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD remnant that are left. God of Israel, That which thou hast pray

5 So the servants of king Hezekiah ed to me against Sennacherib king of Ascame to Isaiah. syria I have heard.

6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus 21 This is the word that the LORD hath shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the spoken concerning him; The virgin the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and thou hast heard, with which the servants laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, 22 Whom hast thou reproached and and he shall hear a rumour, and shall re- blasphemed? and against whom hast thou turn to his own land; and I will cause him exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes to fall by the sword in his own land. on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. 8 ¶ So Rab-shakeh returned, and found 23 By thy messengers thou hast rethe king of Assyria warring against Lib-proached the LORD, and hast said, With nah: for he had heard that he was depart-the multitude of my chariots I am come ed from Lachish. up to the height of the mountains, to the 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out tall cedar-trees thereof, and the choice to fight against thee: he sent messengers fir-trees thereof: and I will enter into the again unto Hezekiah, saying, lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

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 delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the have done it, and of ancient times that I kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by have formed it? now have I brought it to destroying them utterly and shalt thou pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste be delivered? fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

12 Have the gods of the nations de- 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of livered them which my fathers have de- small power, they were dismayed and stroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Re- confounded; they were as the grass of the zeph, and the children of Eden which were field, and as the green herb, as the grass on in Thelasar? the house-tops, and as corn blasted before

13 Where is the king of Hamath, and it be grown up. the king of Arpad, and the king of the 27 But I know thy abode, and thy gocity of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? ing out, and thy coming in, and thy rage 14 T And Hezekiah received the letter against me. of the hand of the messengers, and read 28 Because thy rage against me and it: and Hezekiah went up into the house thy tumalt is come up into mine eara,

Sennacherib slain by his sons.

II. KINGS.

The sun goes backward. therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, years; and I will deliver thee and this and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn city out of the hand of the king of Assythee back by the way by which thou camest. ria; and I will defend this city for mine 29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, own sake, and for my servant David's sake. Ye shall eat this year such things as grow 7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. of themselves, and in the second year that And they took and laid it on the bile, and which springeth of the same; and in the he recovered.

third year sow ye, and reap, and plant 8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. What shall be the sign that the LORD will 30 And the remnant that is escaped of heal me, and that I shall go up into the the house of Judah shall yet again take house of the LORD the third day? root downward, and bear fruit upward. 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth have of the LORD, that the LORD will do a remnant, and they that escape out of the thing that he hath spoken: shall the mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back shall do this. ten degrees? 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD con- 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light cerning the king of Assyria, He shall not thing for the shadow to go down ten decome into this city, nor shoot an arrow grees: nay, but let the shadow return there, nor come before it with shield, nor backward ten degrees. cast a bank against it.

11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto 33 By the way that he came, by the the LORD: and he brought the shadow same shall he return, and shall not come ten degrees backward, by which it had into this city, saith the LORD. gone down in the dial of Ahaz. 12 At that time Berodach-baladan,

34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent David's sake. letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

13 And Hezekiah bearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

37 And it came to pass, as he was wor- 14 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, to king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons said these men? and from whence came smote him with the sword: and they they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, escaped into the land of Armenia. And They are come from a far country, even Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. from Babylon. CHAP. XX.

15 And he said, What have they seen N those days was Hezekiah sick unto in thine house? And Hezekiah answer

of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, have they seen there is nothing among Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in my treasures that I have not shewed them. order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah,

2 Then he turned his face to the wall, Hear the word of the Lord. and prayed unto the LORD, saying,

17 Behold, the days come, that all that 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember is in thine house, and that which thy fanow how I have walked before thee in thers have laid up in store unto this day, truth and with a perfect heart, and have shall be carried into Babylon: nothing done that which is good in thy sight. And shall be left, saith the LORD.

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from

Hezekiah wept sore. 4 And it came pass, afore Isaiah was thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they gone out into the middle court, that the take away; and they shall be eunuchs in word of the LORD came to him, saying, the palace of the king of Babylon.

5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, Good is the word of the LORD which thou the God of David thy father, I have hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: if peace and truth be in my days? behold, I will heal thee: on the third day 20 T And the rest of the acts of Hezethou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. kiah, and all his might, and how he made 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen a pool, and a conduit, and brought water

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