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The king of Assyria was told, "You sent foreigners into the cities of Samaria who do not know the law of the god of the land. This is why he has sent lions among them. The lions are killing them because they don't know what the god wants."

This happened because they did not obey the Lord their God. They broke his agreement and did not obey all that Moses, the Lord 's servant, had commanded. They would not listen to the commands or do them.

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to us in the Aramaic language. We understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew, because the people on the city wall can hear you."

The king says you should not let Hezekiah fool you, because he can't save you from my power.

The people were silent. They didn't answer the commander at all, because King Hezekiah had ordered, "Don't answer him."

Because you rage against me, and because I have heard your proud words, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. Then I will force you to leave my country the same way you came.'

At that time Hezekiah became so sick he almost died. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to see him and told him, "This is what the Lord says: Make arrangements because you are not going to live, but die."

At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan was king of Babylon. He sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah was sick.

Hezekiah told Isaiah, "These words from the Lord are good." He said this because he thought, "There will be peace and security in my lifetime."

because my people did what I said was wrong. They have made me angry from the day their ancestors left Egypt until now.'"

They do not need to report how they use the money given to them, because they are working honestly."

"Go and ask the Lord about the words in the book that was found. Ask for me, for all the people, and for all Judah. The Lord 's anger is burning against us, because our ancestors did not obey the words of this book; they did not do all the things written for us to do."

Even so, the Lord did not stop his strong and terrible anger. His anger burned against Judah because of all Manasseh had done to make him angry.

The Lord commanded this to happen to the people of Judah, to remove them from his presence, because of all the sins of Manasseh.

The king of Egypt did not leave his land again, because the king of Babylon had captured all that belonged to the king of Egypt, from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah because the Lord was angry with them. Finally, he threw them out of his presence. Zedekiah turned against the king of Babylon.

Then all the people, from the least important to the most important, along with the army leaders, ran away to Egypt, because they were afraid of the Babylonians.

Eber had two sons. One son was named Peleg, because the people on the earth were divided into different languages during his life. Peleg's brother was named Joktan.

Carmi's son was Achan, who caused trouble for Israel because he took things that had been given to the Lord to be destroyed.

There was a man named Jabez, who was respected more than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez because she said, "I was in much pain when I gave birth to him."