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After all this faithful service done, Juda was invaded by Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, who laid siege to its fortified cities, thinking to make them his own. (2 Chronicles 32, 1)
Play the man, he said, and keep your courage high; let there be no shrinking, no faint hearts, at the sight of the Assyrian king and the hordes that follow him; we have many more on our side than they on theirs. (2 Chronicles 32, 7)
Theirs is but mortal strength; we have the Lord our God to aid us, and fight on our side. In such words from king Ezechias the hearts of the men of Juda found support. (2 Chronicles 32, 8)
Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, was laying siege with his army to Lachis; and now he sent envoys to Jerusalem with a message for king Ezechias and for all the citizens; (2 Chronicles 32, 9)
Word to you, they said, from the king of Assyria. What confidence is it that makes you so bold, cooped up there in Jerusalem? (2 Chronicles 32, 10)
Will you die there of hunger and thirst, deluded by Ezechias’ promise that the Lord your God will deliver you from the power of the Assyrian king? (2 Chronicles 32, 11)
Against such blasphemers, king Ezechias and the prophet Isaias, son of Amos, fell to prayer, crying out to heaven for aid; (2 Chronicles 32, 20)
and with that, the Lord sent out his angel, who smote down warrior and chieftain and commander in the Assyrian king’s camp, so that he went home in sorry plight. And there, when he was at worship in the temple of his god, two sons of his own body drew their swords on him and slew him. (2 Chronicles 32, 21)
Thus it was the Lord rescued Ezechias and the men of Jerusalem from the Assyrian king’s power, and of all else that assailed them; on every side he kept them free from alarm. (2 Chronicles 32, 22)
Many were the victims and offerings that were brought to the Lord at Jerusalem; many were the gifts made by Ezechias king of Juda, whom all the nations held thenceforward in high renown. (2 Chronicles 32, 23)
Great were the riches of Ezechias and his fame; great was the store of silver and gold, of jewels and spices, of weapons for every purpose and of precious ware, that king Ezechias laid up. (2 Chronicles 32, 27)
He carved an image, too, and cast a sheath for it, and set this up in the Lord’s house. And this was at Jerusalem, the Lord’s choice among all the cities of Israel; this was in the temple that was to be the everlasting shrine of his name; so he had promised David and Solomon, (2 Chronicles 33, 7)
