After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself. 2Ki 18:13-372Ch 20:1-22Ki 15:192Ki 17:62Ki 18:11Hos 11:5Isa 10:5-11Isa 36:1 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem, 2Ki 12:17Luk 9:51Luk 9:53 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him. Pro 15:22Pro 20:18Pro 24:62Ch 30:22Ki 18:202Ki 20:20Isa 22:8-11Isa 40:13 Then many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?” 2Ch 32:301Ki 19:211Ki 3:16-171Ki 3:92Ch 30:142Ch 32:12Ki 18:132Ki 18:9
He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance. 2Ch 25:231Ki 9:242Ki 25:42Sa 5:9Isa 22:9-101Ki 11:272Ch 12:12Ch 14:5-7 He set captains of war over the people, gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying, 2Ch 30:22Isa 40:22Ch 17:14-19Ezr 10:9Gen 34:3Neh 8:161Ch 27:3-34Neh 8:1-3 “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. 2Ki 6:16Rom 8:31Eph 6:101Jn 4:42Ch 20:152Ki 18:301Ch 28:20Dan 10:19 An arm of flesh is with him, but the LORD our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. Jer 17:52Ch 20:172Ti 4:17Act 18:102Ch 20:15Isa 41:101Jn 4:4Psa 46:11
After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking Lachish, and all his forces were with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, 2Ki 18:17Jos 10:31Isa 36:2Isa 37:8Jos 12:11Jos 15:39Mic 1:13 Sennacherib king of Assyria says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem? 2Ki 18:19Isa 36:4 Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘The LORD our God will 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 Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it’? 2Ch 31:11Ki 7:482Ch 4:12Ki 18:222Ki 18:4Deu 12:13-14Deu 12:26-27Exo 27:1-8 Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my 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 which my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? Exo 14:3Exo 15:9-11Isa 10:11-12Isa 42:8 Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?” Dan 3:15Exo 5:2Isa 36:181Ki 22:222Ch 32:112Ki 18:292Ki 19:10Act 19:26
His servants spoke yet more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah. Jhn 15:21Job 15:25-26Psa 73:9 He also wrote letters insulting the LORD, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.” 2Ki 19:12Isa 37:14Isa 37:28-292Ki 19:142Ki 19:222Ki 19:282Ki 19:9Isa 10:15 They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city. 1Sa 17:101Sa 17:262Ki 18:26-28Isa 36:13Neh 6:9 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands. 2Ki 19:18Isa 2:81Sa 17:362Ch 32:13-172Ch 6:6Deu 27:15Deu 4:28Heb 12:22
Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, 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
The LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body 1 killed him there with the sword. 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 others, 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 Many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on. 2Ch 17:52Ch 1:12Ch 9:24Mat 2:111Ch 29:251Ki 10:101Ki 10:251Ki 4:21
In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to the LORD; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. 2Ki 20:1-11Isa 38:1-8Isa 38:21-22 But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem. 2Ch 24:182Ch 26:162Ch 32:312Sa 24:11Ch 21:12-172Ki 14:10Deu 8:171Ch 21:1 However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the LORD’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah. Jer 26:18-192Ch 33:122Ch 34:27-28Jas 4:101Ki 21:191Ki 21:292Ch 33:192Ch 33:23
Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; 1Ch 27:25-312Ch 1:122Ch 17:52Ch 9:27Pro 10:22 also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds. 1Ki 4:262Ch 26:102Sa 7:8 Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions. 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 spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. 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
However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart. 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 good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 2Ki 18:1-20Isa 36:1-222Ch 31:20-21 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent to the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place. Pro 10:71Ki 1:211Ki 11:431Ki 2:101Sa 2:301Sa 25:12Ch 16:142Ch 33:1-20