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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.
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.
3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD [Yahweh], according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for to those days the children of Israel burned incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the LORD [Yahweh] God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him.
6 For he cleaved to the LORD [Yahweh], [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD [Yahweh] commanded Moses.
7 And the LORD [Yahweh] was with him; [and] he prospered wheresoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, [even] to Gaza, and the borders of it, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] their God, but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moses the servant of the LORD [Yahweh] commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
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.
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 to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD [Yahweh], and in the treasures of the king's house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of the LORD [Yahweh], and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
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 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.
19 And Rabshakeh said to them, Speak you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this in which you trust?
20 You say, (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?
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 to all that trust on him.
22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD [Yahweh] our God: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You will worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
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.
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?
25 Am I now come up without the LORD [Yahweh] against this place to destroy it? The LORD [Yahweh] said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, to 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.
27 But Rabshakeh said to 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?
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:
29 Thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD [Yahweh], saying, The LORD [Yahweh] will surely deliver us, and this city will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Listen 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 you every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink you every one the waters of his cistern:
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 you may live, and not die: and listen not to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, The LORD [Yahweh] will deliver us.
33 Has any of the gods of the nations delivered at all 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, Hena, and Ivah? 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 the LORD [Yahweh] 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, 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.