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And he sentEliakim, which 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.
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And they said unto him, Thus saithHezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
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It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the livingGod; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
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And Isaiahsaid unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraidof the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
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Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiahking of Judah,saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustestdeceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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Have the gods of the nationsdelivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
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And Hezekiahreceived the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
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And Hezekiahprayedbefore the LORD, and said, O LORDGod of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast madeheaven and earth.
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LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the livingGod.
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Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORDGod, even thou only.
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Then Isaiah the son of Amozsent to Hezekiah,saying, Thus saith the LORDGod of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacheribking of Assyria I have heard.
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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.
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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
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By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots* I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
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Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancienttimes that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay wastefencedcities into ruinousheaps.
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Therefore their inhabitants were of smallpower, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the greenherb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blastedbefore it be grown up.
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Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, 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.
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And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the secondyear that which springeth of the same; and in the thirdyearsow ye, and reap, and plantvineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
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And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundredfourscore and fivethousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all deadcorpses.
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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sonssmote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his sonreigned in his stead.