2 Kings 19
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1And it came to pass, when king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] heard [it], that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
2And he sent Elyakim [God sets up], which [was] over the household, and Shevnah [vigour] the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the prophet the son of Amotz [strong].
3And they said unto him, Thus says Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], This day [is] a day of trouble, and of rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain), and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and [there is] not strength to bring forth.
4It may be the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will hear all the words of Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer], whom the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) his master has sent to reproach (disgrace; shame) the living God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; and will reprove the words which the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has heard: wherefore lift up [youri] prayer for the remnant that are left.
5So the servants of king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] came to Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved].
6And Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] said unto them, Thus shall you2f say to your master, Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), Be not afraid of the words which youi have heard, with which the servants of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) have blasphemed me.
7Behold, 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.
8So Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] returned, and found the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) warring against Livnah [Pavement]: for he had heard that he was departed from Lakhish [Invincible].
9And when he heard say of Tirhakah [he searched out the pious] king of Ethiopia [Kush], Behold, he is come out to fight against youi: he sent messengers again unto Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], saying,
10Thus shall you2f speak to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], saying, Let not youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in whom youi trust deceive youi, saying, Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] 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))).
11Behold, youi have heard what the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall youi be delivered?
12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan [a cutting off], and Haran [mountaineer], and Retzef [a hot stone], and the children of ‘Eden which [were] in Tel’asar [Ashur (Assyrian) hill]?
13Where [is] the king of Hamat [Fortress], and the king of Arpad [I shall be spread out (or supported)], and the king of the city of S’farvayim [the two Sipparas (the city of books)], of Hena [troubling], and ‘Ivah [ruin]?
14And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] went up into the house of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and spread it before the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
15And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] prayed before the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and said, O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which dwell [between] the k’vurim (cherubim), youi are the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [even] youi alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; youi have made heaven and earth.
16Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), bow down youri ear, and hear: open, Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youri eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers], which has sent him to reproach (disgrace; shame) the living God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
17Of a truth, Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18And 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.
19Now therefore, O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], I beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) youi, save youi us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that youi [are] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], [even] youi only.
20Then Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the son of Amotz [strong] sent to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], saying, Thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [That] which youi have prayed to me against 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))) I have heard.
21This [is] the word that the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] has despised youi, [and] laughed youi to scorn; the daughter of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] has shaken her head at youi.
22Whom have youi reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have youi exalted [youri] voice, and lifted up youri eyes on high? [even] against the Holy [One] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].
23By youri messengers youi have reproached the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of L’vanon [Whiteness], 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 [Garden-land].
24I have excavated and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25Have youi 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 youi should be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.
26Therefore 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.
27But I know youri abode, and youri going out, and youri coming in, and youri rage against me.
28Because youi rage against me and youri tumult is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in youri nose, and my bridle in youri lips, and I will turn youi back by the way by which youi came.
29And this [shall be] a sign unto youi, You2f shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you2f, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31For out of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Tziyon [parched place]: the zeal of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]] shall do this.
32Therefore thus says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) concerning the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, says the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).
34For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s [beloved]’s sake.
35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) went out, and struck in the camp of the children of Ashur an hundred eighty and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.
36So 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))) departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh [abode of Ninus, or Offspring’s Habitation].
37And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrokh [the great eagle] his god, that Adramelekh [honor of the king, or Adar is prince] and Shar’etzer [prince of fire] his sons struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat [the curse reversed] [the curse reversed: precipitation of curse]. And Esar-Hadon [Ashur has given a brother] his son reigned in his stead.
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