730. a After an interregnum, ch. 15 30. b ch. 18.9 + Heb. rea dered. 28am. 8.2. CHAP. XVII. 1 Hoshea's wicked reign. 3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspireth against him with So king of Egypt. 5 Samaria for their sins is captivated. 24 The strange nations, which were transplanted in Samaria, being plagued with lions, make a mixture of religions. 'N the twelfth year of Ahaz king of lah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 31 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and +gave him || presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conOr, tribute. spiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. 725. 723 c ch. 18.9. 721. n. Hos. 13 51 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. e 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the 186 king of Assyria took Samaria, and car15, foretold. ried Israel away into Assyria, and placed 33. Deut. 28 them in Halah and in Habor by the 36,649 river of Gozan, and in the cities of "the fiChron.5 Medes. e Lev. 26.32, 27, 28. 26. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, g Lev. 18. 3. 8 And walked in the statutes of the Deat. 18. 9. ch. 163 heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they beb 18 built them high places in all their cities, i 1 Kings 14. 2357-5 from the tower of the watchmen to the m 12 For they served idols, whereof m Exod. 20. the LORD had said unto them, "Ye shall beut. 5-7, not do this thing. 3, 4. Lev. 26. 8. n Deut. 4.19. Jer. 18. 11. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, † by all the pro-f phets, and by all the seers, saying, 'Turn all. ye from your evil ways, and keep my com- o 1 Sam. 9.9. mandments and my statutes, according to & 25.5. & all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. T 35. 15. 27. l'rov. 29. 25 hear, but hardened their necks, like to 14 Notwithstanding they would not the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. his covenant that ads an 15 And they rejected his statutes, and Dent. 29. thers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should "not do like them. Deut. 32. 16.13.1 Cor. P. 115.8. Rom. 1. 21. 21. 1 Kings t 8. 4. u Deut. 12. 30, 31. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and deli- fch. 13.3. vered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 11, 31. 21 For he rent Israel from the house 1 Kings 11. of David; and they made Jeroboam the hi Kings 12. son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave 20, 25. Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. 24 ¶ 'And the king of Assyria brought A mixture of religions introduced. Before CHRIST 2 KINGS. Hezekiah's good reign. men m from Babylon, and from Cuthah, I fear, and him shall ye worship, and to cir. 678. and from "Ava, and from Hamath, and him shall ye do sacrifice. m See ver.30. from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the nch. 18.34 cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. o ver. 24. p Ezra 4.9. Deut. 31. 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and 3.18.21. Tartak, and the Sepharvites 'burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. r1 Kings 12. 31. s Zeph. 1.5. 32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which, sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33 'They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations | whom they carried away from cay from thence. ! Or, who carried them thence. 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD comGen. 32. 28. manded the children of Jacob, whom he 1 Kings 11. named Israel; & 35. 10. 31. Before CHRIST cir. 678. 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall a Dent. 5.32. observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget: neither Deut. 4 shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not + from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. 7 And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, "Ye 8 'He smote the Philistines, even unto shall not fear other gods, nor bow your-†Gaza, and the borders thereof, "from selves to them, nor serve them, nor sacri- the tower of the watchman to the fenced fice to them: city. 56 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, 'him shall ye That is, a piece of brass. Job 13. 15 e ch. 19. 10 Pt. 13 5 f ch. 23-25 & Deat. 1 & 20. Josh. 23 + Heb. from after hims 1 2 Chron. 15. 2. eir. 725 i1 Sam. 18. 12. B& 9¶ And it came to pass in the fourth n ch. 17-3 year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king io And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezech. 17. 6. kiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. p ch. 17. € 11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them Chron. 5 in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: r ch.17.7. Dan. 9. 6, 10. 713 $ 2 Chron. 32. 1, ke. 12 'Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did + Sennacherib king of c. Ecclus Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. Isai. 36. 1, 48.18. + Heb. Sanherib. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent. to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. t cb. 16. 8. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. ↑ Heb. them. cir. 710. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a Heb. hoary. †great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, "which is in the highway of the fuller's field. | Rab-shakeh's blasphemy. CHRIST cir. 710. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in Before the LORD our God: is not that he, "whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah 2 Chron. 31. and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? z ver. 4. 1. & 32. 12. ago. 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, Or, hostand I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25 Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink † their own piss with you? + Heb. the 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried their feet? with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, † Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his || cistern: & 33. 11. 1 Or, pit. 8. 32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of b Deut. 8. 7, corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he || persuadeth, deceiv you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. 33 Hath any of the gods of the nations ch. 19. 12. delivered at all his land out of the hand 14 Isai. 10. of the king of Assyria? 2 Chron. 32. 10, 11. 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, d ch. 19. 13. and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they ch. 17. 24, delivered Samaria out of mine hand? Hezekiah mourning is comforted. Before CHRIST cir. 710. f Dan. 3-15 2 KINGS. 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, 'that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the houshold, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of g lai. 33.7. Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh. a Isai. 37. 1, &c. ·Hezekiah's prayer. Before to fight against thee: he sent messengers CHRIST again unto Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God 1in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 710. 1 ch. 18. 5. 12 "Have the gods of the nations m ch. 18.33 delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of "Eden which were in Thelasar? n Ezek. 27. 23. 80. 1 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the AND it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, clothes, and covered himself with sack-which dwellest between the cherubims, 1 Sim-4-4 cloth, and went into the house of the thou art the God, even thou alone, of LORD. all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast 4+ made heaven and earth. 2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the houshold, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered led with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. f Isai. 37.6, &c. g ch. 18. 17. la ver. 35, 36, 37. Jer.51.1. 6 ¶ And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, 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. 8¶ So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was de ich. 18. 14 parted from Lachish. 18 And have † cast their gods into the Heb.g fire: for they were no gods, but the 3P+ work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth Ps. 83. 18. may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only. 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou Iss. 37. 21, hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria "I have heard. 23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, 'With the multitude of my chariots I am come d Isai. 504- Heb. Be ech. 18. 17 P20. 7. the hand of. An angel slayeth the Assyrians. Before 710. CHAP. XX. sons y Hezekiah's sickness and recovery. CHRIST 709. CHRIST up to the height of the mountains, to the | that "Ádrammelech and Sharezer his Before sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the smote him with the sword: and Heb. the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice they escaped into the land of +Armenia. 2 Chron. fir trees thereof: and I will enter into And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his the lodgings of his borders, and into || the stead. his fruitful forest of his Carmel. taliness, &c. 1 Or, the Jorest and field. Isai. 19. 18. 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have 10r, fenced. I dried up all the rivers of || besieged places. 1 Or, Hast than not have made it long are, and formed 25 || Hast thou not heard long ago how heard how I & I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it ancient to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay hould I now Waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. times? bring it fo be laid fenced cities to be ruin ons heaps? g Isai. 45-7 26 Therefore their inhabitants were ate and of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the Isai. 10.5. grass on the house tops, and as corn blast+Heb. short ed before it be grown up. of hand. i l's. 129. 6. k Ps. 139. 1, 27 But I know thy || abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy Or, sitting. rage against me. 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, Ek therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn ver, thee back by the way by which thou 29.4. & 38.4. Amos 4.2. 337. a1 Sam. 2. 34 ch. 20. 8, 14. Lake 2 12 camest. 113 29 And this shall be "a sign unto thee, 711, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof. • 1 Chron. JL. 22, 23. esenping of 30 And the remnant that is escaped Heb. the "of the house of Judah shall yet again take The house of root downward, and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth + Hels, the a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: 'the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. Judah that remaineth. maping. plsą, 9. 7. 32 Therefore thus saith 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 cast a bank against it. 35 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. 34 For "I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and 'for my servant David's sake. 35¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and 24 Mar. 7. smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 8 ¶ And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will. See Judges heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day? 9 And Isaiah said, *This sign shalt thou See lai. have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. |