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the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
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And his
servants spake yet
more
against the L
ORD
God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
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He wrote also
letters to rail on the L
ORD
God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations
of
other
lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah
deliver his people out of mine hand.
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Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto
the people of Jerusalem that
were
on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might
take the city.
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And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of
the earth,
which were
the work of the hands of man.
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And for this
cause
Hezekiah the king, and
the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
21
And the L
ORD
sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and
captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land.
And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him
there with the sword.
22
Thus the L
ORD
saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the
hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all
other,
and guided them on every
side.
23
And many brought gifts unto the L
ORD
to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah:
so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
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In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the L
ORD
: and he spake unto
him, and he gave him a sign.
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But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit
done
unto
him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
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Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart,
both
he and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the L
ORD
came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
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And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for
silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of
pleasant jewels;
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Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all
manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
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Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of
flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
30
This same Hezekiah
also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the
city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
31
Howbeit in
the business of
the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to
enquire 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
Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they
are
written in the vision
of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
and
in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
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And
Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of
David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead.
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