After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. 1 2Ki 18:13-372Ch 20:1-22Ki 15:192Ki 17:62Ki 18:11Hos 11:5Isa 10:5-11Isa 36:1 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, 2 2Ki 12:17Luk 9:51Luk 9:53 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. Pro 15:22Pro 20:18Pro 24:62Ch 30:22Ki 18:202Ki 20:20Isa 22:8-11Isa 40:13 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? 3 2Ch 32:301Ki 19:211Ki 3:16-171Ki 3:92Ch 30:142Ch 32:12Ki 18:132Ki 18:9 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. 4 2Ch 25:231Ki 9:242Ki 25:42Sa 5:9Isa 22:9-101Ki 11:272Ch 12:12Ch 14:5-7 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, 5 2Ch 30:22Isa 40:22Ch 17:14-19Ezr 10:9Gen 34:3Neh 8:161Ch 27:3-34Neh 8:1-3 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: 2Ki 6:16Rom 8:31Eph 6:101Jn 4:42Ch 20:152Ki 18:301Ch 28:20Dan 10:19 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. 6 Jer 17:52Ch 20:172Ti 4:17Act 18:102Ch 20:15Isa 41:101Jn 4:4Psa 46:11
¶ After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, 7 2Ki 18:17Jos 10:31Isa 36:2Isa 37:8Jos 12:11Jos 15:39Mic 1:13 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? 8 2Ki 18:19Isa 36:4 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 2Ch 32:152Ki 18:272Ki 18:302Ki 19:10Isa 36:12Isa 36:18Mat 27:43Psa 11:1-3 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it? 2Ch 31:11Ki 7:482Ch 4:12Ki 18:222Ki 18:4Deu 12:13-14Deu 12:26-27Exo 27:1-8 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? 2Ki 18:33-351Co 8:42Ch 32:192Ki 15:292Ki 17:5-62Ki 19:11-132Ki 19:17-19Dan 4:30 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? Exo 14:3Exo 15:9-11Isa 10:11-12Isa 42:8 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? Dan 3:15Exo 5:2Isa 36:181Ki 22:222Ch 32:112Ki 18:292Ki 19:10Act 19:26 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah. Jhn 15:21Job 15:25-26Psa 73:9 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. 2Ki 19:12Isa 37:14Isa 37:28-292Ki 19:142Ki 19:222Ki 19:282Ki 19:9Isa 10:15 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. 1Sa 17:101Sa 17:262Ki 18:26-28Isa 36:13Neh 6:9 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. 2Ki 19:18Isa 2:81Sa 17:362Ch 32:13-172Ch 6:6Deu 27:15Deu 4:28Heb 12:22 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. Psa 91:14-152Ch 14:112Ki 19:2-42Ch 20:6-12Isa 37:14-202Ki 19:14-19Isa 37:1-4Psa 50:15
¶ And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. 9 Isa 37:36-38Psa 76:52Ki 19:202Ki 19:35-372Sa 24:16Act 12:23Dan 6:22Isa 10:16-19 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side. Isa 31:4-52Th 3:5Hos 1:7Jhn 16:13Psa 144:10Psa 18:48-50Psa 37:39-40Isa 10:24-25 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. 10 2Ch 17:52Ch 1:12Ch 9:24Mat 2:111Ch 29:251Ki 10:101Ki 10:251Ki 4:21
¶ In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. 11 2Ki 20:1-11Isa 38:1-8Isa 38:21-22 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. 2Ch 24:182Ch 26:162Ch 32:312Sa 24:11Ch 21:12-172Ki 14:10Deu 8:171Ch 21:1 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. 12 Jer 26:18-192Ch 33:122Ch 34:27-28Jas 4:101Ki 21:191Ki 21:292Ch 33:192Ch 33:23
¶ And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; 13 1Ch 27:25-312Ch 1:122Ch 17:52Ch 9:27Pro 10:22 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. 1Ki 4:262Ch 26:102Sa 7:8 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much. 1Ch 29:121Ch 27:29-311Sa 2:71Ti 6:17-182Ch 25:92Ch 26:10Deu 8:18Gen 13:2-6 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 1Ki 1:331Ki 1:381Ki 1:452Ch 32:42Ki 20:20Isa 22:9-11Jos 1:7-8Psa 1:1-3
¶ Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart. 14 Deu 8:2Pro 17:3Jhn 15:52Ch 32:24Gen 22:1Deu 8:16Zec 13:9Isa 39:1-8
¶ Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 15 2Ki 18:1-20Isa 36:1-222Ch 31:20-21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. 16 Pro 10:71Ki 1:211Ki 11:431Ki 2:101Sa 2:301Sa 25:12Ch 16:142Ch 33:1-20