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chapter 32
1
After
these things, and this truth, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came and
entered into Juda, and besieged the fenced cities, desiring to take them.
2 And when Ezechias saw that Sennacherib was come, and
that the whole force of the war was turning against Jerusalem,
3 He took counsel with the princes, and the most
valiant men, to stop up the heads of the springs, that were without the city:
and as they were all of this mind,
4 He gathered together a very great multitude, and they
stopped up all the springs, and the brook, that ran through the midst of the
land, saying: Lest the kings of the Assyrians should come, and And abundance of
water.
5 He built up also with great diligence all the wall
that had been broken down, and built towers upon it, and another wall without:
and he repaired Mello in the city of David, and made all sorts of arms and
shields:
6 And he appointed captains of the soldiers of the
army: and he called them all together in the street of the gate of the city, and
spoke to their heart, saying:
7 Behave like men, and take courage: be not afraid nor
dismayed for the king of the Assyrians, nor for all the multitude that is with
him: for there are many more with us than with him.
8 For with him is an arm of flesh: with us the Lord our
God, who is our helper, and fighteth for us. And the people were encouraged
with these words of Ezechias king of Juda.
9 After this, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians sent
his servants to Jerusalem, (for he with all his army was besieging Lachis,) to
Ezechias king of Juda, and to all the people that were in the city, saying:
10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: In
whom do you trust, that you sit still besieged in Jerusalem?
11 Doth not Ezechias deceive you, to give you up to die
by hunger and thirst, affirming that the Lord your God shall deliver you from
the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
12 Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed
his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You
shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?
13 Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all
the people of the lands? have the gods of any nations and lands been able to
deliver their country out of my hand?
14 Who is there among all the gods of the nations,
which my fathers have destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand,
that your God should be able to deliver you out of this hand?
15 Therefore let not Ezechias deceive you, nor delude
you with a vain persuasion, and do not believe him. For if no god of all the
nations and kingdoms, could deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the
hand of my fathers, consequently neither shall your God be able to deliver you
out of my hand.
16 And many other things did his servants speak against
the Lord God, and against Ezechias his servant.
17 He wrote also letters full of blasphemy against the
Lord the God of Israel, and he spoke against him: As the gods of other nations
could not deliver their people out of my hand, so neither can the God of
Ezechias deliver his people out of this hand.
18 Moreover he cried out with a loud voice, in the
Jews' tongue, to the people that sat on the walls of Jerusalem, that he might
frighten them, and take the city.
19 And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against
the gods of the people of the earth, the works of the hands of men.
20 And Ezechias the king, and Isaias the prophet the
son of Amos, prayed against this blasphemy, and cried out to heaven.
21 And the Lord sent an angel who cut off all the stout
men and the warriors, and the captains of the army of the king of the
Assyrians: and he returned with disgrace into his own country. And when he was
come into the house of his god, his sons that came out of his bowels, slew him
with the sword.
22 And the Lord saved Ezechias and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, out of the hand of Sennacherib king of the Assyrians, and out of the
hand of all, and gave them treasures on every side.
23 Many also brought victims, and sacrifices to the
Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he was magnified
thenceforth in the sight of all nations.
24 In those days Ezechias was sick even to death, and
he prayed to the Lord: and he heard him, and gave him a sign.
25 But he did not render again according to the
benefits which he had received, for his heart was lifted up: and wrath was
enkindled against him, and against Juda and Jerusalem.
26 And he humbled himself afterwards, because his heart
had been lifted up, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and therefore the
wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Ezechias.
27 And Ezechias was rich, and very glorious, and he
gathered himself great treasures of silver and of gold, and of precious stones,
of spices, and of arms, of all kinds, and of vessels of great price.
28 Storehouses also of corn, of wine, and of oil, and
stalls for all beasts, and folds for cattle.
29 And he built himself cities: for he had docks of
sheep, and herds without number, for the Lord had given him very much
substance.
30 This same Ezechias was, he that stopped the upper
source of the waters of Gihon, and turned them away underneath toward the west
of the city of David : in ail his works he did prosperously what he would.
31 But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon,
that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the
earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made
known that were in his heart.
32 Now the rest of the acts of Ezechias, and of his
mercies are written in the book of the kings of Juda and Israel.
33 And Ezechias slept with his fathers, m and they
buried him above the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Juda, and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem celebrated his funeral: and Manasses his son reigned
in his stead.
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