2 Kings 19

2 Kings 19:1 When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahveh’s temple.

2 Kings 19:2 He sent Eliakim, who oversaw the palace, Shebna, the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz.

2 Kings 19:3 They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

2 Kings 19:4 Perhaps Yahveh your God will hear all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his lord king of Assyria sent to mock the living God and will rebuke him for the words that Yahveh your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.'”

2 Kings 19:5 So the slaves of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,

2 Kings 19:6 who said to them, “Tell your lord, ‘Yahveh says this: Don’t be afraid because of the words you have heard, with which the king of Assyria’s boys have blasphemed me.

2 Kings 19:7 I am about to put a breath in him, and he will hear a rumor and return to his land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.'”

2 Kings 19:8 When the royal spokesman heard that the king of Assyria had pulled out of Lachish, he left and found him fighting against Libnah.

2 Kings 19:9 The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush, “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So, he again sent agents to Hezekiah, saying,

2 Kings 19:10 “Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:11 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: They destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

2 Kings 19:12 Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed rescue them– nations such as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?

2 Kings 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah? ‘”

2 Kings 19:14 Hezekiah took the letter from the agents’ hands, read it, then went up to Yahveh’s temple and spread it out before Yahveh.

2 Kings 19:15 Then Hezekiah prayed before Yahveh: Yahveh, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you are God—you alone—of all the kingdoms of the land. You made the heavens and the land.

2 Kings 19:16 Listen closely, Yahveh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahveh, and see. Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.

2 Kings 19:17 Yahveh, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.

2 Kings 19:18 They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands—wood and stone. So, they have destroyed them.

2 Kings 19:19 Now, Yahveh our God, please save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the land may know that you, Lord, are God– you alone.

2 Kings 19:20 Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent a message to Hezekiah: ” Yahveh, the God of Israel says, ‘I have heard your prayer to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria.’

2 Kings 19:21 This is the word Yahveh has spoken against him: Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head behind your back.

2 Kings 19:22 Who is it you mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

2 Kings 19:23 You have mocked Yahveh through your agents. You have said, ‘With my many chariots, I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its farthest outpost, its densest forest.

2 Kings 19:24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. I dried up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.’

2 Kings 19:25 Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.

2 Kings 19:26 Their inhabitants have become powerless, dismayed, and ashamed. They are wild plants, tender grass, and grass on the rooftops, blasted by the east wind.

2 Kings 19:27 But I know your sitting down, your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me.

2 Kings 19:28 Because your raging against me and your arrogance have reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.

2 Kings 19:29 “This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

2 Kings 19:30 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

2 Kings 19:31 Because a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors, from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahveh of Armies will accomplish this.

2 Kings 19:32 Therefore, Yahveh says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city, shoot an arrow here, come before it with a shield, or build a siege ramp against it.

2 Kings 19:33 He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city. This is Yahveh’s declaration.

2 Kings 19:34 I will defend this city and rescue it for my sake and the sake of my slave David.”

2 Kings 19:35 That night, the agent of Yahveh went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the following day — there were all the dead bodies!

2 Kings 19:36 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

2 Kings 19:37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then, his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

links:

death while worshipping
God alone is Immortal
God is Different
Sennacherib’s fate
Sennacherib’s fate – Devotions

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2 Kings 18

2 Kings 18:1 In the third year of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah, Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.

2 Kings 18:2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king and reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi, daughter of Zechariah.

2 Kings 18:3 He did what was right in Yahveh’s sight just as his ancestor David had done.

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses had made, for until then, the Israelites had been burning incense to it. It was called Nehushtan.

2 Kings 18:5 Hezekiah relied on Yahveh, God of Israel; not one of the kings of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.

2 Kings 18:6 He remained faithful to Yahveh and did not turn from following him but kept the commands Yahveh had commanded Moses.

2 Kings 18:7 Yahveh was with him, and wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not slave for him.

2 Kings 18:8 He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

2 Kings 18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah, Assyria’s King Shalmaneser marched against Samaria and besieged it.

2 Kings 18:10 The Assyrians captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Israel’s King Hoshea, Samaria was captured.

2 Kings 18:11 The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and put them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes,

2 Kings 18:12 because they did not listen to Yahveh their God but violated his covenant– all he had commanded Moses, the slave of Yahveh. They did not listen, and they did not obey.

2 Kings 18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Assyria’s King Sennacherib attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

2 Kings 18:14 So King Hezekiah of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay.” The king of Assyria demanded eleven tons of silver and one ton of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah.

2 Kings 18:15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in Yahveh’s temple and the treasuries of the king’s palace.

2 Kings 18:16 At that time, Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of Yahveh’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:17 Then the king of Assyria sent the field marshal, the chief of staff, and his royal spokesman, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced and came to Jerusalem, and they took their position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, by the road to the Launderer’s Field.

2 Kings 18:18 They called for the king, but Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who oversaw the palace, Shebnah, the court secretary, and Joah, son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to them.

2 Kings 18:19 Then the royal spokesman said to them, “Tell Hezekiah this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: ‘What are you relying on?

2 Kings 18:20 You think mere words are strategy and strength for war. Who are you now relying on so that you have rebelled against me?

2 Kings 18:21 Now look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is to all who rely on him.

2 Kings 18:22 Suppose you say to me, “We rely on Yahveh our God.” Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem”? ‘

2 Kings 18:23 “So now, make a bargain with my lord king of Assyria. I’ll give you two thousand horses if you’re able to supply riders for them!

2 Kings 18:24 How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my lord’s slaves? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

2 Kings 18:25 Now, have I attacked this place to destroy it without Yahveh’s approval?  Yahveh said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.'”

2 Kings 18:26 Then Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to the royal spokesman, “Please speak to your slaves in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak with us in Hebrew within earshot of the people on the wall.”

2 Kings 18:27 But the royal spokesman said to them, “Has my lord sent me to speak these words only to your lord and to you? Hasn’t he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their excrement and drink their urine?”

2 Kings 18:28 The royal spokesman stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:29 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; he can’t rescue you from my power.

2 Kings 18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on Yahveh by saying, “Certainly Yahveh will rescue us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” ‘

2 Kings 18:31 “Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace with me and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his vine, and his fig tree, and each may drink water from his cistern

2 Kings 18:32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land– a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey– so that you may live and not die. But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, ” Yahveh will rescue us.”

2 Kings 18:33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

2 Kings 18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?

2 Kings 18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued his land from my power? So, will Yahveh rescue Jerusalem from my power? ‘”

2 Kings 18:36 But the people kept silent; they did not answer him at all, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”

2 Kings 18:37 Then Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who oversaw the palace, Shebna, the court secretary, and Joah, son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the royal spokesman.

links:

ACST 2 The Promise
The desert snake
the LORD will deliver
trusting in his deliverance – Devotions

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2 Kings 17

2 Kings 17:1 In the twelfth year of Judah’s King Ahaz, Hoshea, son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.

2 Kings 17:2 He did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.

2 Kings 17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.

2 Kings 17:4 But the king of Assyria caught Hoshea in a conspiracy: He had sent envoys to So king of Egypt and had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore, the king of Assyria arrested him and put him in prison.

2 Kings 17:5 The king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 17:7 This disaster happened because the people of Israel failed Yahveh, their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and because they worshiped other gods.

2 Kings 17:8 They lived according to the customs of the nations that Yahveh had dispossessed before the Israelites and according to what the kings of Israel did.

2 Kings 17:9 The Israelites secretly did things against Yahveh their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

2 Kings 17:10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

2 Kings 17:11 They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that Yahveh had driven out before they had done. They did evil things, angering Yahveh.

2 Kings 17:12 They slaved for idols, although Yahveh had told them, “You must not do this.”

2 Kings 17:13 Still, Yahveh warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my slaves the prophets.”

2 Kings 17:14 But they would not listen. Instead, they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe Yahveh their God.

2 Kings 17:15 They rejected his statutes, his covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations Yahveh had commanded them not to imitate.

2 Kings 17:16 They abandoned all the commands of Yahveh, their God. They made cast images for themselves, two calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and slaved for Baal.

2 Kings 17:17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and interpreted omens. They devoted themselves to doing what was evil in Yahveh’s sight and angered him.

2 Kings 17:18 Therefore, Yahveh was very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained.

2 Kings 17:19 Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahveh, their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had practiced.

2 Kings 17:20 So Yahveh rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.

2 Kings 17:21 When Yahveh tore Israel from the house of David, Israel made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Then, Jeroboam led Israel away from following Yahveh and caused them to commit immense sin.

2 Kings 17:22 The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them.

2 Kings 17:23 Finally, Yahveh removed Israel from his presence just as he had declared through all his slaves the prophets. So, Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland to this very day.

2 Kings 17:24 Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in place of the Israelites in the cities of Samaria. The settlers took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.

2 Kings 17:25 When they first lived there, they did not fear Yahveh. So, Yahveh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

2 Kings 17:26 The settlers said to the king of Assyria, “The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the god of the land. Therefore, he has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:27 Then the king of Assyria issued a command: “Send back one of the priests you deported. Have him go and live there so he can teach them the requirements of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28 So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear Yahveh.

2 Kings 17:29 But the people of each nation were still making their gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.

2 Kings 17:30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,

2 Kings 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kings 17:32 They feared Yahveh, but they also made from their ranks priests for the high places, who were working for them at the shrines of the high places.

2 Kings 17:33 They feared Yahveh, but they also slaved for their gods according to the practice of the nations from which they had been deported.

2 Kings 17:34 They are still observing the former practices to this day. None of them fear Yahveh or observe the statutes and ordinances, the law, and commandments that Yahveh had commanded the descendants of Jacob, whom he had given the name Israel.

2 Kings 17:35 Yahveh made a covenant with Jacob’s descendants and commanded them, “Do not fear other gods; do not bow in worship to them; do not slave for them; do not sacrifice to them.

2 Kings 17:36 Instead, fear Yahveh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to him, and you are to sacrifice to him.

2 Kings 17:37 You are to be careful always to observe the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandments he wrote for you; do not fear other gods.

2 Kings 17:38 Do not forget the covenant that I have made with you. Do not fear other gods,

2 Kings 17:39 but fear Yahveh your God, and he will rescue you from all your enemies.”

2 Kings 17:40 However, these nations would not listen but continued observing their former practices.

2 Kings 17:41 They feared Yahveh but also slaved for their idols. Still today, their children and grandchildren continue doing as their fathers did.

links:

enough
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, October 19, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, October 21, 2021
three Solomons
what we are doing – Devotions

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2 Kings 16

2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah, son of Remaliah, Ahaz, son of Jotham, became king of Judah.

2 Kings 16:2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of Yahveh, his God, like his ancestor David

2 Kings 16:3 but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations Yahveh had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 16:5 Then Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah, son of Remaliah, came to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.

2 Kings 16:6 At that time, Aram’s King Rezin recovered Elath for Aram and expelled the Judahites from Elath. Then, the Arameans came to Elath, and they still live there today.

2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent agents to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, “I am your slave and your son. March up and save me from the grasp of the king of Aram and of the king of Israel, who are rising against me.”

2 Kings 16:8 Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in Yahveh’s temple and the treasuries of the king’s palace and sent them to the king of Assyria as a bribe.

2 Kings 16:9 So the king of Assyria listened to him and marched up to Damascus and captured it. He deported its people to Kir but put Rezin to death.

2 Kings 16:10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria. When he saw the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent the priest Uriah a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

2 Kings 16:11 Uriah built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz sent from Damascus. Therefore, by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus, the priest Uriah had completed it.

2 Kings 16:12 When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar. Then he approached it and ascended it.

2 Kings 16:13 He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and splattered the blood of his fellowship offerings on the altar.

2 Kings 16:14 He took the bronze altar that was before Yahveh in front of the temple between his altar and Yahveh’s temple and put it on the north side of his altar.

2 Kings 16:15 Then King Ahaz commanded the priest, Uriah, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also, offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.”

2 Kings 16:16 The priest Uriah did everything King Ahaz commanded.

2 Kings 16:17 Then King Ahaz cut off the frames of the water carts and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took the basin from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pavement.

2 Kings 16:18 To satisfy the king of Assyria, he removed from Yahveh’s temple the Sabbath canopy they had built in the palace, and he closed the outer entrance for the king.

2 Kings 16:19 The rest of the events of Ahaz’s reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

2 Kings 16:20 Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Hezekiah became king in his place.

links:

changing things – Devotions
renovations

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2 Kings 15

2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

2 Kings 15:2 He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 15:3 Azariah did what was right in  Yahveh’s sight just as his father Amaziah had done.

2 Kings 15:4 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 15:5 Yahveh afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until his death. He lived in quarantine, while Jotham, the king’s son, oversaw the household and governed the people of the land.

2 Kings 15:6 The rest of the events of Azariah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:7 Azariah lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His son Jotham became king in his place.

2 Kings 15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months.

2 Kings 15:9 He did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit.

2 Kings 15:10 Shallum, son of Jabesh, conspired against Zechariah. He struck him down publicly, killed him, and became king in his place.

2 Kings 15:11 The rest of Zechariah’s reign’s events are recorded in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:12 Yahveh’s word to Jehu was, “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel,” and it was so.

2 Kings 15:13 In the thirty-ninth year of Judah’s King Uzziah, Shallum, son of Jabesh, became king; he reigned in Samaria for a whole month.

2 Kings 15:14 Then Menahem, son of Gadi, came up from Tirzah to Samaria and struck down Shallum, son of Jabesh. He killed him and became king in his place.

2 Kings 15:15 The rest of Shallum’s reign, including his conspiracy, is written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:16 At that time, starting from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were in it, and its territory because they wouldn’t surrender. He ripped open all the pregnant women.

2 Kings 15:17 In the thirty-ninth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Menahem, son of Gadi, became king over Israel, and he reigned for ten years in Samaria.

2 Kings 15:18 He did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight. Throughout his reign, he did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit.

2 Kings 15:19 King Pul of Assyria invaded the land, so Menahem gave Pul seventy-five thousand pounds of silver so that Pul would support him to make his grasp strong on the kingdom.

2 Kings 15:20 Then Menahem exacted twenty ounces of silver from each of the prominent men of Israel to give to the king of Assyria. So, the king of Assyria withdrew and did not stay there in the land.

2 Kings 15:21 The rest of the events of Menahem’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:22 Menahem lay down with his fathers, and his son Pekahiah became king in his place.

2 Kings 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Judah’s King Azariah, Pekahiah, son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for two years.

2 Kings 15:24 He did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight and did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit.

2 Kings 15:25 Then his officer, Pekah, son of Remaliah, conspired against him and struck him down in Samaria at the citadel of the king’s palace—with Argob and Arieh. Pekah had fifty Gileadite men with him. He killed Pekahiah and became king in his place.

2 Kings 15:26 As for the rest of the events of Pekahiah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:27 In the fifty-second year of Judah’s King Azariah, Pekah, son of Remaliah, became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned for twenty years.

2 Kings 15:28 He did what was evil in Yahveh’s sight. He did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam, son of Nebat, had caused Israel to commit.

2 Kings 15:29 In the days of King Pekah of Israel, King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-Beth-match, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee—all the land of Naphtali—and deported the people to Assyria.

2 Kings 15:30 Then Hoshea, son of Elah, organized a conspiracy against Pekah, son of Remaliah. He attacked him, killed him, and became king in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham, son of Uzziah.

2 Kings 15:31 As for the rest of the events of Pekah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:32 In the second year of Israel’s King Pekah, son of Remaliah, Jotham, son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.

2 Kings 15:33 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha, daughter of Zadok.

2 Kings 15:34 He did what was right in Yahveh’s sight just as his father Uzziah had done.

2 Kings 15:35 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. Jotham built the Upper Gate of Yahveh’s temple.

2 Kings 15:36 The rest of the events of Jotham’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Book of Judah’s Kings.

2 Kings 15:37 In those days, Yahveh began sending Aram’s King Rezin and Pekah, son of Remaliah, against Judah.

2 Kings 15:38 Jotham lay down with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz became king in his place.

links:

restoration without revival

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