These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 18
Tanakh 37 verses
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Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah of , that the son of Ahaz of began to reign.
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Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in ; and his mother’s was Abi the daughter of .
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- 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of , according to all that his father had done.
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He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that had made; for unto those days the children of did offer to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
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2 Chronicles 31:1 Numbers 21:8-9 2 Kings 18:22 John 3:14-15 Psalm 78:58 Deuteronomy 7:5 2 Chronicles 33:3 2 Chronicles 19:3 1 Kings 3:2-3 2 Kings 14:4 1 Kings 22:43 Judges 6:25 Leviticus 26:30 Exodus 23:24 2 Kings 15:35 Judges 6:28 1 Kings 15:12-14 2 Kings 16:15 Ezekiel 20:28-29 2 Kings 23:4 2 Kings 15:4 Deuteronomy 12:2-3 2 Kings 12:3 - 5 He trusted in , the of ; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of , nor among them that were before him.
- 6 For he cleaved to , he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which commanded .
- 7 And was with him: whithersoever he went forth he prospered; and he rebelled against the of , and served him not.
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He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
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And it came to pass in the fourth year of , which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah of , that Shalmaneser of came up against , and besieged it.
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And at the end of three years they took it; even in the sixth year of , which was the ninth year of Hoshea of , was taken.
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- 11 And the of carried away unto , and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;
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because they hearkened not to the voice of their , but transgressed His , even all that the of commanded, and would not it, nor do it.
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Daniel 9:6-11 Jeremiah 3:8 Deuteronomy 29:24-28 Joshua 1:1 2 Thessalonians 1:8 1 Kings 9:6 Deuteronomy 11:28 Hebrews 3:5-6 Jeremiah 7:23 Nehemiah 9:17 1 Peter 4:17 Deuteronomy 34:5 Micah 3:4 2 Kings 17:7-23 1 Peter 2:8 Nehemiah 9:26-27 Deuteronomy 31:17 Deuteronomy 8:20 Psalm 107:17 Isaiah 1:19 Numbers 12:7 2 Timothy 2:24 -
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Now in the fourteenth year of did Sennacherib of come up against all the fortified cities of , and took them.
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And of sent to the of to Lachish, saying: ‘I have offended; return from me; that which thou puttest on me will I bear.’ And the of appointed unto of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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And gave him all the silver that was found in the house of , and in the treasures of the king’s house.
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At that time did cut off the gold from the doors of the of , and from the door-posts which of had overlaid, and gave it to the of .
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And the of sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to with a great army unto . And they went up and came to . And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fullers’ field.
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- 18 And when they had called to the , there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
- 19 And Rab-shakeh said unto them: ‘Say ye now to : Thus saith the great , the of : What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
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Sayest thou that a mere of the lips is counsel and strength for the war? Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?
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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon ; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh of unto all that trust on him.
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But if ye say unto me: We trust in our ; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars hath taken away, and hath said to and to : Ye shall before this in ?
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Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master the of , and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
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- 24 How then canst thou turn away the of one captain, even of the least of my masters servants? and yet thou puttest thy trust on for chariots and for horsemen!
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Am I now come up without against this place to destroy it? The said unto me: Go up against this land, destroy it.’
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Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh: ‘Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Aramean language; for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.’
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But Rab-shakeh said unto them: ‘Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?’
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- 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying: ‘Hear ye the of the great , the of .
- 29 Thus saith the : Let not beguile you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand;
- 30 neither let make you trust in , saying: The will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the of .
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Hearken not to ; for thus saith the of : Make your with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
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- 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die; and hearken not unto , when he persuadeth you, saying: The will deliver us.
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Hath any of the Elohims of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the of ?
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- 34 Where are the Elohims of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the Elohims of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered out of my hand?
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Who are they among all the Elohims of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that should deliver out of my hand?’
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But the people held their , and answered him not a ; for the king’s was, saying: ‘Answer him not.’
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- 37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.