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But the Rab-shakeh replied, "Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?"

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land-a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey-so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.'

But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, "Do not answer him."

to tell him, "This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for the children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone-the work of human hands.

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

"It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps," answered Hezekiah, "but not for it to go back ten steps."

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good." For he thought, "Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?"

But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

But the people of the land killed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity."

But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, God of Israel, says: 'As for the words that you heard,

But in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

At the end of Josiah's reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.

So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh's demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.

But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.

But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-Jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.