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of Israel, the One who dwells between the cheru-
JUNE 16 bim, You are God, You alone, of all the king-
doms of the earth. You have made heaven and
earth. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear;
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open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the
2 Kings 19:1–21:26
words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to
And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard reproach the living God. Truly, LORD, the
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19 it, that he tore his clothes, covered him- kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations
self with sackcloth, and went into the house of and their lands, and have cast their gods into
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the LORD. Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the fire; for they were not gods, but the work
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the household, Shebna the scribe, and the el- of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore
ders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to they destroyed them. Now therefore, O LORD
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Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. And they our God, I pray, save us from his hand, that all
said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a the kingdoms of the earth may know that You
day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for are the LORD God, You alone.”
the children have come to birth, but there is no 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
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strength to bring them forth. It may be that the Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD God of
LORD your God will hear all the words of the Israel: ‘Because you have prayed to Me
Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of As- against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have
syria has sent to reproach the living God, and heard.’ This is the word which the LORD has
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will rebuke the words which the LORD your God spoken concerning him:
has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the ‘The virgin, the daughter of Zion,
remnant that is left.’ ” Has despised you, laughed you to
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So the servants of King Hezekiah came to scorn;
Isaiah. And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you The daughter of Jerusalem
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shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Has shaken her head behind your
“Do not be afraid of the words which you have back!
heard, with which the servants of the king of 22
Assyria have blasphemed Me. Surely I will ‘Whom have you reproached and
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send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a blasphemed?
rumor and return to his own land; and I will Against whom have you raised your
cause him to fall by the sword in his own voice,
land.” ’ ” And lifted up your eyes on high?
8 Against the Holy One of Israel.
Then the Rabshakeh returned and found 23
the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for By your messengers you have
he heard that he had departed from Lachish. reproached the Lord,
9 And said: “By the multitude of my
And the king heard concerning Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, “Look, he has come out to chariots
make war with you.” So he again sent mes- I have come up to the height of the
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sengers to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus you shall mountains,
speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: ‘Do To the limits of Lebanon;
not let your God in whom you trust deceive I will cut down its tall cedars
you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be given into And its choice cypress trees;
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the hand of the king of Assyria.” Look! You I will enter the extremity of its borders,
have heard what the kings of Assyria have 24 To its fruitful forest.
done to all lands by utterly destroying them; I have dug and drunk strange water,
and shall you be delivered? Have the gods of And with the soles of my feet I have
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the nations delivered those whom my fathers dried up
have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, All the brooks of defense.”
and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 25 ‘Did you not hear long ago
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Where is the king of Hamath, the king of How I made it,
Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, From ancient times that I formed it?
Hena, and Ivah?’ ” Now I have brought it to pass,
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And Hezekiah received the letter from the That you should be
hand of the messengers, and read it; and For crushing fortified cities into heaps
Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and of ruins.
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spread it before the LORD. Then Hezekiah 26 Therefore their inhabitants had little
prayed before the LORD, and said: “O LORD God power;
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