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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, &#8216;Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them&#8212;the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and spread it out before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And Hezekiah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give ear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and hear; open your eyes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;It is true, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib&#8217;s Fall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is the word that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken against him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Virgin Daughter Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">despises you and mocks you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">Daughter Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">tosses her head as you flee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">Against whom have you raised your voice</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">and lifted your eyes in pride?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">Against the Holy One of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By your messengers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">you have ridiculed the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">And you have said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">&#8220;With my many chariots</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have ascended the heights of the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the utmost heights of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have cut down its tallest cedars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the choicest of its junipers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have reached its remotest parts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the finest of its forests.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I have dug wells in foreign lands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">and drunk the water there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">With the soles of my feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Have you not heard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">Long ago I ordained it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">In days of old I planned it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">now I have brought it to pass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">that you have turned fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">into piles of stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Their people, drained of power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">are dismayed and put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">They are like plants in the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">like tender green shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">like grass sprouting on the roof,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">scorched before it grows up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But I know where you are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">and when you come and go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">and how you rage against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Because you rage against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and because your insolence has reached my ears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">I will put my hook in your nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and my bit in your mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and I will make you return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">by the way you came.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">&#8220;This year you will eat what grows by itself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">and the second year what springs from that.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">But in the third year sow and reap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="content">will take root below and bear fruit above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">&#8220;The zeal of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will accomplish this.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says concerning the king of Assyria:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;He will not enter this city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">or shoot an arrow here.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">He will not come before it with shield</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">or build a siege ramp against it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">By the way that he came he will return;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">he will not enter this city,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I will defend this city and save it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="content">for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That night the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning&#8212;there were all the dead bodies! </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.19.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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