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Bible Reading for July 06

2 Kings 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. [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, according to all
that David his father did.
[4] He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves,
and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days
the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
[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. [6] For he clave to
the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which
the LORD commanded Moses. [7] And the LORD was with him; and he prospered
whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and
served him not. [8] He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders
thereof, 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 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:
[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. [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 thou puttest 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. [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. [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. [17] And the
king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh 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 Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now
to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is
this wherein thou trustest?
[20] Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength
for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? [21]
Now, behold, thou trustest 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
Pharoah king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. [22] But if ye say unto me,
We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose
altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall
worship before this altar in Jerusalem? [23] Now therefore, I pray thee, give
pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
[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, and destroy it. [26] Then said
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I
pray thee, to thy 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 Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and
to thee, to speak these words? hath 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 Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language,
and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
[29] Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be
able to deliver you out of his hand: [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.
[31] Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an
agreement with me by a present, and come 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:
[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 ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he
persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. [33] Hath 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 mine hand? [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?
[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 Rab-shakeh.

2 Kings 19
[1] And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes,
and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
[2] And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.
[3] And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble,
and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there
is not strength to bring forth. [4] It may be the LORD thy God will hear all
the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. [5] So the
servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. [6] And Isaiah said unto them, Thus
shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words
which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have
blasphemed me. [7] Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a
rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the
sword in his own land.
[8] So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. [9] And when he
heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against
thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, [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. [11] Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
[12] Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were
in Thelasar?
[13] Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the
city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? [14] And Hezekiah received the letter of
the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of
the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
[15] And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, 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. [16] LORD, bow down
thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of
Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
[17] Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and
their lands,
[18] And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the
work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. [19]
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even
thou only.
[20] Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD
God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of
Assyria I have heard.
[21] This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the
daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of
Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. [22] Whom hast thou reproached and
blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine
eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
[23] By the messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the
multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the
sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders,
and into the forest of his Carmel. [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 have done it, and of ancient times that
I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay
waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. [26] Therefore their inhabitants were
of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of
the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn
blasted before it be grown up. [27] But I know thy abode, and thy going out,
and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
[28] Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears,
therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will
turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. [29] And this shall be a sign
unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the
second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
[30] And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward. [31] For out of Jerusalem shall go forth
a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of
hosts shall do this. [32] Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of
Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. [33] By the way that he
came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the
LORD. [34] For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for
my servant David's sake.
[35] And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and
smote in the camp of the Assyrians an 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.
[37] And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they
escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

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