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This is the king’s warning, Do not be deluded by Ezechias, he is powerless to save you; (2 Kings 18, 29)
do not let Ezechias put you off by telling you to trust in the Lord; that the Lord is certain to bring you aid, he cannot allow the king of Assyria to become master of your city. (2 Kings 18, 30)
No, do not listen to Ezechias; here are the terms the king of Assyria offers you. Earn my good will by surrendering to me, and you shall live unmolested, to each the fruit of his own vine and fig-tree, to each the water from his own cistern.✻ (2 Kings 18, 31)
What of other nations? Were their countries delivered, by this god or that, when the king of Assyria threatened them? (2 Kings 18, 33)
But all kept silence, and gave him no word in answer; the king had given strict orders that they were not to answer him. (2 Kings 18, 36)
No sooner had king Ezechias heard it, than he tore his garments open, and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. (2 Kings 19, 1)
Unless indeed the Lord should take cognizance of what Rabsaces has been saying, Rabsaces, who was sent here by his master, the king of Assyria, to blaspheme the living God. Surely the Lord thy God has listened to the reproaches he uttered. Raise thy voice, then, in prayer for the poor remnant that is left. (2 Kings 19, 4)
Isaias answered, Give your master this message. Do not be dismayed, the Lord says, at hearing the blasphemies which the courtiers of the Assyrian king have uttered against me. (2 Kings 19, 6)
And now Rabsaces went back to find the king of the Assyrians before Lobna, hearing that he had raised the siege of Lachis. (2 Kings 19, 8)
News had come that Taracha, king of the Ethopians, was on the way to do battle with him. And the king, as he went out to meet Taracha, despatched messengers to Ezechias; (2 Kings 19, 9)
Give this warning, he said, to Ezechias, king of Juda, Do not let the God in whom thou puttest such confidence deceive thee with false hopes; do not think Jerusalem will never be allowed to fall into the hands of the Assyrian king. (2 Kings 19, 10)
Then Isaias, son of Amos, sent word to Ezechias, A message to thee from the Lord, the God of Israel, granting the prayer thou hast made to him about Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians. (2 Kings 19, 20)
