1 As soon as Hezekiahheard the news, he tore off his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. Then he went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He told Prime Minister Eliakim, Assistant Prime Minister Shebna, and the senior priests to dress in sackcloth and tell me:
3 Isaiah, these are difficult and disgraceful times. Our nation is like a woman too weak to give birth, when it’s time for her baby to be born. 4 Please pray for those of us who are left alive. The king of Assyriasent his army commander to insult the living God. Perhaps the Lordheard what he said and will do something, if you will pray.
5 When these leaders came to me, 6 I told them that the Lordhad this message for Hezekiah:
I am the Lord. Don’t worry about the insulting things that have been said about me by these messengers from the king of Assyria. 7 I will upset him with rumors about what’s happening in his own country. He will go back, and there I will make him die a violent death.
8 Meanwhile the commander of the Assyrianforces heard that his king had left the town of Lachishand was now attacking Libnah. So he went there.
9 About this same time, the king of Assyria learned that King Tirhakahof Ethiopia37.9 Ethiopia: See the note at 11.11.was on his way to attack him. Then the king of Assyria sent some messengers with this note for Hezekiah:
10 Don’t trust your God or be fooled by his promise to defend Jerusalemagainst me. 11 You have heard how we Assyriankings have completely wiped out other nations. What makes you feel so safe? 12 The Assyrian kings before me destroyed the towns of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and everyone from Edenwho lived in Telassar. What good did their gods do them? 13 The kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvahhave all disappeared.
Hezekiah, king of Judah, did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, destroyed the high places, and trusted in God when Sennacherib, king of Assyria, besieged Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:1).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Lachish was a city whose king joined four other Amorite kings against Gibeon and which Joshua and all Israel besieged and attacked. Amaziah fled there, but he was pursued and killed there (2 Chronicles 25:27).
Libnah was the city that Joshua attacked after Makkedah, putting to the sword everyone in it; it was also one of the cities given to the descendants of Aaron (Joshua 10:30).
Cush is the land of King Tirhakah, who was marching out to fight against Sennacherib. Upon hearing this report, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah (Isaiah 37:9).
Hezekiah, king of Judah, did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, destroyed the high places, and trusted in God when Sennacherib, king of Assyria, besieged Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:1).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Assyria is the land whose kings took Galilee and Naphtali, besieged Samaria for three years, and deported Israel to Halah, Habor, and Gozan. Sennacherib, its king, sent servants to Hezekiah in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 32:9).
Gozan was one of the places where the king of Assyria settled the Israelites after capturing Samaria, along with Halah, the Habor River, and the towns of the Medes (2 Kings 17:6).
Haran is the city where Terah settled with Abram, Sarai, and Lot upon leaving Ur of the Chaldeans, and where he died; from there Abram departed for Canaan at the age of seventy-five (Genesis 12:4).
Eden is the land whose people, in Telassar, were among the nations that the kings of Assyria destroyed, alongside Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph (2 Kings 19:12).
Hamath is a land where Riblah was located, the place where Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who pronounced sentence on him (Jeremiah 39:5).