chapter 21 tells of several sinful acts which are still present today at least
in movies and TV occasionally.
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DAY 109
2 Kings 19
Isaiah Assures Deliverance
1 And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered
himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 Then he sent Eliakim, who was
over the household,
Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to
Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz. 3 And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day is a day of
trouble, and rebuke,
and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to
bring them forth. 4
It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom
his master the king
of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which
the LORD your God
has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said to them,
"Thus you shall say to
your master, 'Thus says the LORD: "Do not be afraid of the words which you have
heard, with which
the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Surely I will send a
spirit upon him, and
he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his
own land."'"
Sennacherib's Threat and Hezekiah's Prayer
8 Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah, for he heard
that he had departed from Lachish. 9 And the king heard concerning Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, "Look,
he has come out to make war with you." So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying, 10 "Thus you
shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: 'Do not let your God in whom you
trust deceive you,
saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." 11
Look! You have heard
what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them;
and shall you be
delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have
destroyed, Gozan and
Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the
king of Hamath, the
king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?'"
14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read
it; and Hezekiah went
up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 Then Hezekiah
prayed before the LORD,
and said: "O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You
are God, You alone, of
all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16 Incline Your
ear, O LORD, and
hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which
he has sent to
reproach the living God. 17 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste
the nations and their
lands, 18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were not gods, but
the work of men's
hands-wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD
our God, I pray, save
us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the
LORD God, You alone."
The Word of the LORD Concerning Sennacherib
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD
God of Israel: 'Because
you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.' 21
This is the word which
the LORD has spoken concerning him:
'The virgin, the daughter of Zion,
Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem
Has shaken her head behind your back!
22 ' Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice,
And lifted up your eyes on high?
Against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And said: "By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter the extremity of its borders,
To its fruitful forest.
24 I have dug and drunk strange water,
And with the soles of my feet I have dried up
All the brooks of defense."
25 'Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
>From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.
27 'But I know your dwelling place,
Your going out and your coming in,
And your rage against Me.
28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
By the way which you came.
29 'This shall be a sign to you:
You shall eat this year such as grows of itself,
And in the second year what springs from the same;
Also in the third year sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
30 And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah
Shall again take root downward,
And bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant,
And those who escape from Mount Zion.
The zeal of the LORD of hosts[a] will do this.'
32 "Therefore thus says 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 build a siege mound against it.
33 By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return;
And he shall not come into this city,'
Says the LORD.
34 'For I will defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and for My servant David's sake.'"
Sennacherib's Defeat and Death
35 And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel[b] of the LORD went
out, and killed in the
camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people
arose early in the
morning, there were the corpses-all dead. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed and went away,
returned home, and remained at Nineveh. 37 Now it came to pass, as he was
worshiping in the temple
of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with
the sword; and they
escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 20
Hezekiah's Life Extended
1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the
son of Amoz, went to
him and said to him, "Thus says the LORD: 'Set your house in order, for you
shall die, and not live.
'"
2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3
"Remember now, O LORD,
I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have
done what was good in
Your sight." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the
word of the LORD came
to him, saying, 5 "Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says
the LORD, the God of
David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I
will heal you. On the
third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD. 6 And I will add to your
days fifteen years. I
will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
defend this city for
My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David."'"
7 Then Isaiah said, "Take a lump of figs." So they took and laid it on the
boil, and he recovered.
8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me,
and that I shall go up
to the house of the LORD the third day?"
9 Then Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will
do the thing which He
has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go backward ten degrees?"
10 And Hezekiah answered, "It is an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten
degrees; no, but let
the shadow go backward ten degrees."
11 So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow ten
degrees backward, by
which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.
The Babylonian Envoys
12 At that time Berodach-Baladan[c] the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present
to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And Hezekiah was
attentive to them, and
showed them all the house of his treasures-the silver and gold, the spices and
precious ointment,
and all[d] his armory-all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing
in his house or in
all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
14 Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, "What did
these men say, and from
where did they come to you?"
So Hezekiah said, "They came from a far country, from Babylon."
15 And he said, "What have they seen in your house?"
So Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing
among my treasures
that I have not shown them."
16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD: 17 'Behold, the
days are coming when
all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this
day, shall be carried
to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says the LORD. 18 'And they shall take away
some of your sons
who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in
the palace of the king
of Babylon.'"
19 So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD which you have spoken is
good!" For he said,
"Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days?"
Death of Hezekiah
20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah-all his might, and how he made a pool
and a tunnel and
brought water into the city-are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of
Judah? 21 So Hezekiah rested with his fathers. Then Manasseh his son reigned in
his place.
2 Kings 21
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five
years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD,
according to the
abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel. 3 For he
rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up
altars for Baal, and
made a wooden image,[e] as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all
the host of heaven[f]
and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the
LORD had said, "In
Jerusalem I will put My name." 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
in the two courts of
the house of the LORD. 6 Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced
soothsaying, used
witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight
of the LORD, to
provoke Him to anger. 7 He even set a carved image of Asherah[g] that he had
made, in the house of
which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in
Jerusalem, which I
have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; 8 and
I will not make the
feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers-only if
they are careful to
do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law
that My servant Moses
commanded them." 9 But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do
more evil than the
nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying, 11 "Because
Manasseh king of Judah has
done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who
were before him, and
has also made Judah sin with his idols), 12 therefore thus says the LORD God of
Israel: 'Behold, I
am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it,
both his ears will
tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and
the plummet of the
house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning
it upside down. 14
So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand
of their enemies; and
they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, 15 because they have
done evil in My
sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of
Egypt, even to this
day.'"
16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled
Jerusalem from one end to
another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight
of the LORD.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh-all that he did, and the sin that he
committed-are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 So Manasseh
rested with his fathers,
and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his
son Amon reigned in
his place.
Amon's Reign and Death
19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years
in Jerusalem. His
mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did
evil in the sight of
the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. 21 So he walked in all the ways that
his father had
walked; and he served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.
22 He forsook the
LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
23 Then the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his
own house. 24 But the
people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then
the people of the
land made his son Josiah king in his place.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles
of the kings of Judah? 26 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza.
Then Josiah his son
reigned in his place.
Footnotes:
a.2 Kings 19:31 Following many Hebrew manuscripts and ancient versions (compare
Isaiah 37:32);
Masoretic Text omits of hosts.
b.2 Kings 19:35 Or Angel
c.2 Kings 20:12 Spelled Merodach-Baladan in Isaiah 39:1
d.2 Kings 20:13 Following many Hebrew manuscripts, Syriac, and Targum;
Masoretic Text omits all.
e.2 Kings 21:3 Hebrew Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
f.2 Kings 21:3 The gods of the Assryians
g.2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
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