18:1 In
the
third
year
of
Hoshea
son
of
Elah,
king
of
Israel,
Hezekiah
the
son
of
Ahaz,
king
of
Judah,
began
to
reign.
18:2 He
was
twenty-five
years
old
when
he
began
to
reign,
and
he
reigned
twenty-nine
years
in
Jerusalem.
His
mother's
name
was
Abi
the
daughter
of
Zechariah.
18:3 And
he
did
what
was
right
in
the
eyes
of
the
LORD,
according
to
all
that
David
his
father
had
done.
18:4 He
removed
the
high
places
and
broke
the
pillars
and
cut
down
the
Asherah.
And
he
broke
in
pieces
the
bronze
serpent
that
Moses
had
made,
for
until
those
days
the
people
of
Israel
had
made
offerings
to
it
(it
was
called
Nehushtan).
18:5 He
trusted
in
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
so
that
there
was
none
like
him
among
all
the
kings
of
Judah
after
him,
nor
among
those
who
were
before
him.
18:6 For
he
held
fast
to
the
LORD.
He
did
not
depart
from
following
him,
but
kept
the
commandments
that
the
LORD
commanded
Moses.
18:7 And
the
LORD
was
with
him;
wherever
he
went
out,
he
prospered.
He
rebelled
against
the
king
of
Assyria
and
would
not
serve
him.
18:8 He
struck
down
the
Philistines
as
far
as
Gaza
and
its
territory,
from
watchtower
to
fortified
city.
18:9 In
the
fourth
year
of
King
Hezekiah,
which
was
the
seventh
year
of
Hoshea
son
of
Elah,
king
of
Israel,
Shalmaneser
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
Samaria
and
besieged
it,
18:10 and
at
the
end
of
three
years
he
took
it.
In
the
sixth
year
of
Hezekiah,
which
was
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea
king
of
Israel,
Samaria
was
taken.
18:11 The
king
of
Assyria
carried
the
Israelites
away
to
Assyria
and
put
them
in
Halah,
and
on
the
Habor,
the
river
of
Gozan,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
Medes,
18:12 because
they
did
not
obey
the
voice
of
the
LORD
their
God
but
transgressed
his
covenant,
even
all
that
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
commanded.
They
neither
listened
nor
obeyed.
18:13 In
the
fourteenth
year
of
King
Hezekiah,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah
and
took
them.
18:14 And
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
sent
to
the
king
of
Assyria
at
Lachish,
saying,
"I
have
done
wrong;
withdraw
from
me.
Whatever
you
impose
on
me
I
will
bear."
And
the
king
of
Assyria
required
of
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
three
hundred
talents
of
silver
and
thirty
talents
of
gold.
18:15 And
Hezekiah
gave
him
all
the
silver
that
was
found
in
the
house
of
the
LORD
and
in
the
treasuries
of
the
king's
house.
18:16 At
that
time
Hezekiah
stripped
the
gold
from
the
doors
of
the
temple
of
the
LORD
and
from
the
doorposts
that
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah
had
overlaid
and
gave
it
to
the
king
of
Assyria.
18:17 And
the
king
of
Assyria
sent
the
Tartan,
the
Rab-saris,
and
the
Rabshakeh
with
a
great
army
from
Lachish
to
King
Hezekiah
at
Jerusalem.
And
they
went
up
and
came
to
Jerusalem.
When
they
arrived,
they
came
and
stood
by
the
conduit
of
the
upper
pool,
which
is
on
the
highway
to
the
Washer's
Field.
18:18 And
when
they
called
for
the
king,
there
came
out
to
them
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebnah
the
secretary,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder.
18:19 And
the
Rabshakeh
said
to
them,
"Say
to
Hezekiah,
'Thus
says
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria:
On
what
do
you
rest
this
trust
of
yours
18:20 Do
you
think
that
mere
words
are
strategy
and
power
for
war
In
whom
do
you
now
trust,
that
you
have
rebelled
against
me
18:21 Behold,
you
are
trusting
now
in
Egypt,
that
broken
reed
of
a
staff,
which
will
pierce
the
hand
of
any
man
who
leans
on
it.
Such
is
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
to
all
who
trust
in
him.
18:22 But
if
you
say
to
me,
"We
trust
in
the
LORD
our
God,"
is
it
not
he
whose
high
places
and
altars
Hezekiah
has
removed,
saying
to
Judah
and
to
Jerusalem,
"You
shall
worship
before
this
altar
in
Jerusalem"
18:23 Come
now,
make
a
wager
with
my
master
the
king
of
Assyria:
I
will
give
you
two
thousand
horses,
if
you
are
able
on
your
part
to
set
riders
on
them.
18:24 How
then
can
you
repulse
a
single
captain
among
the
least
of
my
master's
servants,
when
you
trust
in
Egypt
for
chariots
and
for
horsemen
18:25 Moreover,
is
it
without
the
LORD
that
I
have
come
up
against
this
place
to
destroy
it
The
LORD
said
to
me,
Go
up
against
this
land,
and
destroy
it.'"
18:26 Then
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
and
Shebnah,
and
Joah,
said
to
the
Rabshakeh,
"Please
speak
to
your
servants
in
Aramaic,
for
we
understand
it.
Do
not
speak
to
us
in
the
language
of
Judah
within
the
hearing
of
the
people
who
are
on
the
wall."
18:27 But
the
Rabshakeh
said
to
them,
"Has
my
master
sent
me
to
speak
these
words
to
your
master
and
to
you,
and
not
to
the
men
sitting
on
the
wall,
who
are
doomed
with
you
to
eat
their
own
dung
and
to
drink
their
own
urine"
18:28 Then
the
Rabshakeh
stood
and
called
out
in
a
loud
voice
in
the
language
of
Judah:
"Hear
the
word
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria!
18:29 Thus
says
the
king:
'Do
not
let
Hezekiah
deceive
you,
for
he
will
not
be
able
to
deliver
you
out
of
my
hand.
18:30 Do
not
let
Hezekiah
make
you
trust
in
the
LORD
by
saying,
The
LORD
will
surely
deliver
us,
and
this
city
will
not
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.'
18:31 Do
not
listen
to
Hezekiah,
for
thus
says
the
king
of
Assyria:
'Make
your
peace
with
me
and
come
out
to
me.
Then
each
one
of
you
will
eat
of
his
own
vine,
and
each
one
of
his
own
fig
tree,
and
each
one
of
you
will
drink
the
water
of
his
own
cistern,
18:32 until
I
come
and
take
you
away
to
a
land
like
your
own
land,
a
land
of
grain
and
wine,
a
land
of
bread
and
vineyards,
a
land
of
olive
trees
and
honey,
that
you
may
live,
and
not
die.
And
do
not
listen
to
Hezekiah
when
he
misleads
you
by
saying,
The
LORD
will
deliver
us.
18:33 Has
any
of
the
gods
of
the
nations
ever
delivered
his
land
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria
18:34 Where
are
the
gods
of
Hamath
and
Arpad
Where
are
the
gods
of
Sepharvaim,
Hena,
and
Ivvah
Have
they
delivered
Samaria
out
of
my
hand
18:35 Who
among
all
the
gods
of
the
lands
have
delivered
their
lands
out
of
my
hand,
that
the
LORD
should
deliver
Jerusalem
out
of
my
hand'"
18:36 But
the
people
were
silent
and
answered
him
not
a
word,
for
the
king's
command
was,
"Do
not
answer
him."
18:37 Then
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebna
the
secretary,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder,
came
to
Hezekiah
with
their
clothes
torn
and
told
him
the
words
of
the
Rabshakeh.