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The priests, family by family, the Levites of twenty years and more, company by company, (2 Chronicles 31, 17)
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)
No pains did he spare to rebuild the wall where it had fallen into disrepair, with towers to crown it and a second wall within; Mello, too, in the Keep of David he fortified anew, and prepared shields and all other weapons of defence. (2 Chronicles 32, 5)
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)
See how I and my fathers have subdued the world, and the gods of a whole world could not rescue it from me! (2 Chronicles 32, 13)
Tell me, in all these countries my fathers and I have laid waste, was there ever a god found could save his people from my power, that you should trust this God of yours when the same power threatens you? (2 Chronicles 32, 14)
Do not be deluded by the persuasions of Ezechias; do not listen to him. All those peoples and kingdoms my fathers and I have conquered, their gods notwithstanding; will your God do better? (2 Chronicles 32, 15)
there was a letter, too, Sennacherib wrote, full of blasphemy against the Lord God of Israel, boasting that Ezechias’ God could not save his people from attack, where the gods of so many other nations had failed them. (2 Chronicles 32, 17)
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)
So Ezechias was laid to rest with his fathers, on the slope where the tombs of David’s sons are; and all Juda and Jerusalem did honour to his funeral. And the throne passed to his son Manasses. (2 Chronicles 32, 33)
And he defied the Lord’s will, by courting the false gods of those nations which the Lord destroyed to make room for the sons of Israel. (2 Chronicles 33, 2)
He restored once again the hill-shrines which his father Ezechias had overthrown; he raised altars to the gods of the country-side, and set up sacred trees, and gave to all the host of heaven worship and observance. (2 Chronicles 33, 3)
