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He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.

So he clung to Yahweh; he did not turn away from following Him, but kept His commandments, which Yahweh had commanded Moses.

Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong. Turn away from me; whatever penalty you give to me I will bear." So the king of Assyria set a penalty on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a heavy military force to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller's field.

Now behold, you trust in the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

So now, come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to give riders for them.

So now, have I come up without the approval of Yahweh against this place to make it a ruin? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land and make it a ruin.'"'"

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a report and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land."'"

Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has come out to fight against you." So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying,

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction. So will you be delivered?

and have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

So their inhabitants were short of power,They were dismayed and put to shame;They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went away and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

So Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to stretch forward ten steps; no, but let the shadow turn backward ten steps."

And he said, "What have they seen in your house?" So Hezekiah said, "They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasuries that I have not shown them."

So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

So he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her.

"Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place."'" So they brought back word to the king.