2 Kings 18
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1Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea [salvation] son of Elah [an oak] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [that] Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the son of Achaz [he has grasped] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] began to reign.
2Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. His mother’s name also [was] Avi [my father], the daughter of Z’kharyah [Yehovah remembers] [the Lord recalled].
3And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to all that David [beloved] his father did.
4He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] had made: for unto those days the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did burn incense to it: and he called it N’chushtan [the bronze].
5He trusted in the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], nor [any] that were before him.
6For he clave to the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].
7And the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was with him; [and] he prospered to wherever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and served him not.
8He struck the P’lishtim [Immigrants], [even] unto ‘Azah [The Strong], and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea [salvation] son of Elah [an oak] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [that] Shalman’eser [fire-worshipper] [fire-worshipper] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) came up against Shomron [watch mountain], and besieged it.
10And at the end of three years they took it: [even] in the sixth year of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], that [is] the ninth year of Hoshea [salvation] king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Shomron [watch mountain] was taken.
11And the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) did carry away Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] unto Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and put them in Halach [painful] and in Havor [joining] [by] the river of Gozan [a cutting off], and in the cities of the Medes [middle land]:
12Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], but transgressed his covenant, [and] all that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded, and would not hear [them], nor do [them].
13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] did Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) come up against all the fenced cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and took them.
14And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] sent to the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) to Lakhish [Invincible], saying, I have offended; return from me: that which youi put on me will I bear. And the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) appointed unto Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] gave [him] all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16At that time did Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and [from] the pillars which Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).
17And the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) sent Tartan [general] and Rav-Saris [chief eunuch] and Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] from Lakhish [Invincible] to king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] with a great host against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And they went up and came to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which [is] in the highway of the Launderers’ Field.
18And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Elyakim [God sets up] the son of Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], which [was] over the household, and Shevnah [vigour] the scribe, and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother] the son of Asaf [gatherer] the recorder.
19And Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] said unto them, Speak you2f now to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], Thus says the great king, the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), What confidence [is] this wherein youi?
20Youi say, (but [they are but] vain words,) [I have] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do youi trust, that youi rebel against me?
21Now, behold, youi trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, [even] upon Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] unto all that trust on him.
22But if you2f say unto me, We trust in the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: [is] not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] has taken away, and has said to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], You2f shall worship before this altar in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]?
23Now therefore, I pray youi, give pledges to my lord the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and I will deliver youi two thousand horses, if youi be able on youri part to set riders upon them.
24How then will youi turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put youri trust on Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] for chariots and for horsemen?
25Am I now come up without the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) against this place to destroy it? The Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26Then said Elyakim [God sets up] the son of Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], and Shevnah [vigour], and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother], unto Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer], Speak, I pray youi, to youri servants in the Arami [exalted] language; for we understand [it]: and talk not with us in the Y’hudit (Y’hudim (Judeans)’) language in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
27But Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] said unto them, Has my master sent me to youi master, and to youi, 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?
28Then Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] stood and cried with a loud voice in the Y’hudit (Y’hudim (Judeans)’) language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))):
29Thus says the king, Let not Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30Neither let Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] make you trust in the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, The Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).
31Listen not to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength]: for thus says the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me, and [then] eat you2f every man of his own vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you2f everyone the waters of his cistern:
32Until 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 you2f may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], when he persuades you, saying, The Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will deliver us.
33Has any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known)))?
34Where [are] the gods of Hamat [Fortress], and of Arpad [I shall be spread out (or supported)]? where [are] the gods of S’farvayim [the two Sipparas (the city of books)], Hena [troubling], and ‘Ivah [ruin]? have they delivered Shomron [watch mountain] out of my hand?
35Who [are] they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) should deliver Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] out of my hand?
36But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37Then came Elyakim [God sets up] the son of Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], which [was] over the household, and Shevnah [vigour] the scribe, and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother] the son of Asaf [gatherer] the recorder, to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer].
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