his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove made them sin a great sin. rael had sinned against the LORD their Deut. 4. 19. Israel from following the LORD, and God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from 3 Heb. by the hand of all. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his ser before the children of Israel, and of the Jer. 18. 11. vants the prophets. So was Israel carri kings of Israel which they had made. & 25. 5. & 9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from Deut. 31. the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. 10 And they set up for themselves 2 im 27. Ex. 32. 8. ed away out of their own land to Assyria to this day. 24 T And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, ages and groves on every high hill, and 1 Kings 12. and dwelt in its cities. under every green tree: 11 And there they burnt incense on all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, & Ye shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, 3 by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies, which he testified against them; and they followed! vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. 16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. 17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of 28. Zeph. 1. 5. or, who them away from thence. carried 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land. 28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 Yet, every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they dwelt. 30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 32 So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations 4 whom they carried away from thence. 34 To this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; 35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them: 36 But the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an out-stretched arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. Before CHRIST, 710. Gen. 32.28. 1 Kings 18. 31. Judg. 6. 10. ❝ 2 Chr. 28. 27 29.1 37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear 1 Heb. other gods. 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children as did their fathers, so do they to this day. CHAP. XVIII. 2 statues. Num.21.9. Heb. from after him. 3 Heb. Az. zah. 1 Hezekiah's good reign: 4 He destroyeth idolatry, and prospereth. 9 Samaria is carried captive for their sins. 13 Sennacherib invading Judah, is pacified by a tribute. 17 Rab-shakeh, sent by Sennacherib again, revileth Hezekiah, and by blasphemous per- c. 17. 3. suasions, soliciteth the people to revolt. it came to pass in the third a c. 17. 6. year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Now 8 He smote the Philistines, even to 3 Gaza, and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. 9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is a the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them. 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah 4 Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave 5 it to the king of Assyria. 17¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Israel, that a Hezekiah the son of Ahaz 2 Chr. 32.1. Lachish to king Hezekiah with a 6 great king of Judah began to reign. Is. 36. 1. army against Jerusalem: and they went 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned 4 Heb. San-up, and came to Jerusalem: and when twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. herib. 3 And he did that which was right in 5 Heb. them. the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 6 Heb. heavy. 4¶ He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the 6 brazen serpent that Moses had made for till those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Nehush-s or, talkest. tan. 7 or, secreta- they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the 7 scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 19 And Rab-shakeh said to them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which thou trustest? 20 Thou 8 sayest, but they are but vain words, 10 I have counsel and strength for the war. Now in whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? 21 Now behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man leaneth, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him. 22 But if ye say to me, We trust in Ithe LORD our God: is not that he whose 23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give 12 pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand 12 or, hosthorses, if thou shalt be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then wilt thon turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 25 Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. 26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah, to Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it and talk not with us in the Jews language in the ears of the people that are on the wall. ages. 13 Heb. the water of their feet. 14 or, Seek my favor. 15 Heb. Make with me a bless ing. 27 But Rab-shakeh said to them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, 16 or, pit. that they may feed on their vilest 13 excretions with you? 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews language, and spoke, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: 29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand : 30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. ceiveth. 17 or, de 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for a Is. 37. 1. thus saith the king of Assyria, 14 15 Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his 16 cistern: kiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh. CHAP. XIX. 1 Hezekiah mourning, sendeth to Isaiah to pray for them. 6 Isaiah comforteth them. 8 Sennacherib going to encounter Tirhakah, sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. 14 Hezekiah's prayer. 20 Isaiah's prophesy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion. 35 An angel slayeth the Assyrians. 36 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons. a AND & it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and 1 blasphemy: for the children have come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are 2 left. 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 T And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found 32 Until I come and take you away to Luke 3. 4. the king of Assyria warring against Lib a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-oil and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not to Hezekiah, when he 17 persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. 33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? 1 or, provocation. 36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the 2 Heb king's commandment was, saying, An- found. swer him not. 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hil-1 nah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. 9 And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Cush, Behold, he hath come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Thelasar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. Before CHRIST, 710. 4 Heb. By the hand of. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the 3 Heb.given LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, who dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. 16 LORD, bow down thy ear, and hear: open, LORD, thy eyes, and see and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God. 17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18 And have 3 cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only. 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high: even against the Holy One of Israel. 5 Heb. the tallness, &c. 6 or, the for 7 est and his fruitful field. or, fortied. 8 or, Hast thou not heard how I have made it long ago, and form ed it in an. cient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fortified ci ties to be heaps? Heb. short of hand. 10 or, sitting. 11 Heb. the of Judah maineth. 12 Heb. the of 23 4 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the hight of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down 5 its tall cedar trees, and its choice fir trees: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Car-13 Heb. Aramel. 24 I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of 7 besieged places. Is. 37. 36. rat. a 2 Chr. 31. 24. 25 8 Hast thou not heard long ago how Is. 38. 1. I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities in ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were 9 of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blast-2 ed before it is grown up. 27 But I know thy 10 abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 1 Heb. Gire charge con. cerning thy house. Heb. with a great weeping. 28 Because thy rage against me and 3 or, city. thy tumult is come up into my cars, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and! my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. 29 And this shall be a sign to thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of it. 30 And 11 the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and 12 they that escape from mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this. 35 ¶ And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of 13 Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XX. 1 Hezekiah having received a message of death, by prayer hath his life lengthened. 8 The sun goeth ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise. 12 Berodach-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah, because of the wonder, hath notice of his treasures. 14 Isaiah having understanding of it, foretelleth the Babylonian captivity. 20 Manasseh succeedeth Hezekiah. a those days was Hezekiah sick to Ideath. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, 1 Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying, 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept 2 grievously. 4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle 3 court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy 6 And I will add to thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this Is. 38. S. city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David's 4 Heb. desake. 7 And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered. grees. € Is. 39. 1. 8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the 5 or, spicery. house of the LORD the third day? 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD 6 or, jewels. will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward. ten degrees: no, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 11 And Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the 4 dial of Ahaz. 7 Heb. vessels. made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAP. XXI. 1 Manasseh's reign. 3 His great idolatry. 10 His wickedness causeth prophecies against Judah. 17 Amon succeedeth him. 19 Amon's wicked reign. 23 He being slain by his serv ants, and those murderers slain by the poeple, Josiah is made king. Mwhen he began to reign, and he ANASSEH & was twelve years old reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared altars for Baal, and dc. 24. 13. & made a grove, as did Ahab king of Is25. 13. rael; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. Jer. 27. 22. 8 or, Shall 12 At that time Berodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for truth, &c. he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And Hezekiah hearkened to them, and showed them all the house of his $ precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his 67 armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these men? and from whence came they to thee? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country even from Babylon. 15 And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in my house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them. 16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD. 2 Chr. 33. 1. b c. 18. 4. Jer. 32. 34. d 2 Sam. 7. 13. 1 Kings 8. 29. & 9. 3. 17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store to this day, d shall be carried into Babylon: nothing c. 23. 27. shall be left, saith the LORD. 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Bab- Jer. 15. 4. ylon. 19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, 8 Is it 1 Sam. 3 not good, if peace and truth shall be in 11. my days? 20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how hel 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, & In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he committed much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe |