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2 Kings 18

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  1. 1Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.18 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 28:27 – 2 Chronicles 29:1, Matthew 1:9–10, 1 Chronicles 3:13, 2 Kings 16:20 – 2 Kings 17:1, 2 Kings 16:2
  2. 2Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.3 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 29:1–2
  3. 3And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.19 cross-references: 2 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 11:38, 1 Kings 11:4, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 1 Kings 3:14
  4. 4He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.47 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 31:1, Numbers 21:8–9, 2 Kings 18:22, 1 Kings 22:43, Judges 6:25
  5. 5He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.26 cross-references: 2 Kings 23:25, 2 Kings 19:10, Matthew 27:43, Ephesians 1:12, Job 13:15
  6. 6For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.12 cross-references: Joshua 23:8, Deuteronomy 10:20, John 14:15, Acts 11:23, 1 John 5:3
  7. 7And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.24 cross-references: 2 Kings 16:7, Psalms 60:12, Romans 8:31, Genesis 39:2–3, Matthew 28:20
  8. 8He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.10 cross-references: Isaiah 14:29, 2 Kings 17:9, 2 Chronicles 28:18, 2 Chronicles 26:10, 1 Chronicles 4:41
  9. 9And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.25 cross-references: Hosea 10:14, 2 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 17:3–23
  10. 10And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.10 cross-references: Micah 6:16, Amos 6:7, Micah 7:13, Hosea 13:16, Amos 3:11 – Amos 4:3
  11. 11And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:28 cross-references: 1 Chronicles 5:26, Isaiah 37:12, 2 Kings 17:6, Isaiah 9:9–21, Isaiah 10:11
  12. 12Because 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.27 cross-references: 2 Timothy 2:24, Deuteronomy 29:24–28, Isaiah 1:19, Deuteronomy 11:28, Joshua 1:1
  13. 13Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.21 cross-references: Isaiah 36:1–22, Isaiah 10:5, Hosea 12:1–2, Isaiah 7:17–25, Isaiah 8:7–8
  14. 14And 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.16 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:7, Luke 14:32, Proverbs 29:25, 1 Kings 20:4
  15. 15And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.16 cross-references: 2 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:18–19, 2 Chronicles 16:2, 2 Kings 12:18, 1 Kings 15:15
  16. 16At 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.3 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Kings 6:31–35
  17. 17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a 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.25 cross-references: 2 Kings 20:20, Isaiah 20:1, Isaiah 7:3, Isaiah 36:2, 2 Chronicles 32:9
  18. 18And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.17 cross-references: 2 Kings 19:2, Isaiah 22:15–24, Isaiah 36:3, 1 Kings 4:3, 2 Samuel 20:24
  19. 19And Rab–shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?17 cross-references: Isaiah 36:4, Daniel 4:30, 2 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 18:29–30, 2 Kings 18:22
  20. 20Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?8 cross-references: Proverbs 21:30–31
  21. 21Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.15 cross-references: Isaiah 30:7, Ezekiel 29:6–7, Isaiah 30:2–3, Jeremiah 46:17, Isaiah 31:1–3
  22. 22But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?20 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 31:1, 1 Corinthians 2:15, 2 Chronicles 32:12, Isaiah 36:7, Matthew 27:43
  23. 23Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.15 cross-references: 1 Kings 20:10, Nehemiah 4:2–5, 1 Samuel 17:42, Isaiah 36:8–9, 1 Samuel 17:44
  24. 24How 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?18 cross-references: Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 31:3, Jeremiah 42:14–18, Deuteronomy 17:16, Isaiah 31:1
  25. 25Am 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.12 cross-references: 2 Kings 19:6, 2 Kings 19:22–37, John 19:10–11, Isaiah 10:5–6, 1 Kings 13:18
  26. 26Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab–shakeh, 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.13 cross-references: Ezra 4:7, Daniel 2:4, Isaiah 36:11–12, 2 Kings 18:18
  27. 27But 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?10 cross-references: Lamentations 4:5, Ezekiel 4:13, Ezekiel 4:15, Deuteronomy 28:53–57, Psalms 73:8
  28. 28Then Rab–shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:11 cross-references: Isaiah 36:13–18, Psalms 47:2, 2 Kings 18:19, Isaiah 10:8–13, Ezekiel 31:3–10
  29. 29Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:13 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Daniel 3:15–17, Daniel 6:16
  30. 30Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.18 cross-references: 2 Kings 19:22, 2 Kings 19:10, Psalms 22:7–8, Psalms 125:1–2, Matthew 27:43
  31. 31Hearken 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 of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:14 cross-references: 1 Kings 4:25, 1 Kings 4:20, Zechariah 3:10, Proverbs 18:16, Genesis 33:11
  32. 32Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of 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 you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.16 cross-references: Deuteronomy 8:7–9, Deuteronomy 11:12, Exodus 3:8, 2 Kings 25:11, Numbers 13:26–27
  33. 33Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?13 cross-references: Isaiah 10:10–11, 2 Chronicles 32:14–17, 2 Chronicles 32:19, 2 Kings 19:17–18, 2 Kings 19:12–13
  34. 34Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?15 cross-references: Isaiah 10:9, Jeremiah 49:23, 2 Kings 17:23–33, 2 Kings 17:6, Isaiah 37:11–12
  35. 35Who 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?13 cross-references: Daniel 3:15, Psalms 2:1–2, Isaiah 10:15, Isaiah 37:23–29, 2 Chronicles 32:15
  36. 36But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.7 cross-references: Psalms 39:1, Matthew 7:6, Amos 5:13, Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 26:4
  37. 37Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab–shakeh.25 cross-references: Isaiah 33:7, 2 Kings 6:30, Matthew 26:65, Genesis 37:34, 2 Kings 18:26

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Hezekiah, God, Judah, Rabshakeh, Hoshea, Moses, Eliakim, Hilkiah, Shebna, Joah, Elah, Asaph, Ahaz, Abijah, Zechariah, David, Jacob, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Tartan, Rabsaris, Pharaoh

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Assyria, Jerusalem, Samaria, Lachish, Egypt, Gaza, Habor, Gozan, Halah, Kingdom of Judah, Field, Hena, Hamath, Ivvah, Arpad, Sepharvaim

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