The Second Book of Chronicles (WEB)
32: 1After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into
Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. 32:2When
Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
32:3he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which
were outside of the city; and they helped him. 32:4So there was gathered much people together, and
they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why
should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? 32:5He took courage, and built up all the
wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and
strengthened Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance. 32:6He set
captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate
of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying, 32:7Be strong and of good courage, don't be
afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is
a greater with us than with him: 32:8with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to
help us, and to fight our battles. The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of
Judah. 32:9After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was
before Lachish, and all his power with him,) to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who
were at Jerusalem, saying, 32:10Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do you trust, that
you abide the siege in Jerusalem? 32:11Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by
famine and by thirst, saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of
Assyria? 32:12Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded
Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense?
32:13 Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods
of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand? 32:14Who was there
among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his
people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? 32:15Now
therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe you
him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out
of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand? 32:16His
servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah. 32:17He wrote also
letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the
nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of
Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand. 32:18They cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them;
that they might take the city. 32:19They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples
of the earth, which are the work of men's hands. 32:20Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the
son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. 32:21Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off
all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So
he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he was come into the house of his god,
those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword. 32:22Thus Yahweh
saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of
Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. 32:23Many brought gifts to
Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in
the sight of all nations from thenceforth. 32:24In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he
prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. 32:25But Hezekiah didn't render again
according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him,
and on Judah and Jerusalem. 32:26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his
heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them
in the days of Hezekiah. 32:27Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him
treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for
all manner of goodly vessels; 32:28store-houses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil;
and stalls for all manner of animals, and flocks in folds. 32:29Moreover he provided him cities, and
possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.
32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them
straight down on the west side of the city of David. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
32:31However in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to
inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all
that was in his heart. 32:32Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are
written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel. 32:33Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the
sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death.
Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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