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19 And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth, and came into the House of the LORD,
2 and sent Eliakim, who was the steward of the house, and Shebna the chancellor, and the elders of the priests clothed in sackcloth to Isaiah, the Prophet, the son of Amoz.
3 And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke and blasphemy. For the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
4 ‘If so be that the LORD your God has heard all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to rail on the living God, and to reproach Him with words which the LORD your God has heard, then lift up your prayer for the remnant who are left.’”
5 So, the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said to them, “So shall you say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
7 “Behold, I will send a blast upon him. And he shall hear a noise and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
8 So, Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah (for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish).
9 Also, about Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, he heard men say, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you.” Therefore, he departed and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah, king of Judah, and say, ‘Do not let your God in Whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
11 ‘Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, how they have destroyed them. And shall you be delivered?
12 ‘Have the gods of the heathen delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden—who were in Telassar?
13 ‘Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Shepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?’”
14 So Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the House of the LORD. And Hezekiah spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “O LORD God of Israel, Who dwells between the Cherubim. You are Elohim, alone over all the kingdoms of the Earth. You have made Heaven and Earth.
16 “LORD, bow down Your Ear, and hear.: LORD, open Your Eyes and behold. And hear the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to blaspheme the living God.
17 “It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 “and have set fire on their gods. For they were no gods, but the work of man’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore, they destroyed them.
19 “Now therefore, O LORD our God, I pray, save us out of his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the Earth may know that You, O LORD, are the only God.”
20 Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I have heard that which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria.’
21 “This is the Word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘O virgin daughter of Zion! He has despised you, laughed you to scorn. O daughter of Jerusalem! He has shaken His Head at you.
22 ‘Whom have you railed on? And Whom have you blasphemed? And against Whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? —against the Holy One of Israel.
23 ‘By your messengers you have railed on the LORD, and said, “By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the top of the mountains, by the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down their high cedars, their fair fir trees. And I will go into the lodging of his borders, and into the forest of his fruit.
24 “I have dug and drunk the waters of others. And with the plant of my feet I have dried all the rivers of entrenchment.”
25 ‘Have you not heard how in ancient times I made it, and formed it long ago? And should I now bring it to be destroyed, and laid on ruinous heaps, as defensed cities,
26 ‘whose inhabitants have small power, are afraid, and confounded? They are like the grass of the field, and green herb, grass on the house tops, or as corn blasted before it is grown.
27 ‘I know your dwelling, your going out and your coming in, and your fury against Me.
28 ‘And because you rage against Me, and your tumult has come up to My Ears, I will put My hook in your nostrils, and My bridle in your lips, and will bring you back again the same way you came.
29 ‘And this shall be a sign to you. This year, you shall eat such things as grow by themselves, and the next year such as grow without sowing, and the third year you shall sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruits.
30 ‘And the remnant of the House of Judah that has escaped, shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
31 ‘For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and some who shall escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts shall do this.’
32 “Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a siege mount against it.
33 ‘He shall return the way he came, and shall not come into this city,’ says the LORD,
34 ‘For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake, and for David My servant’s sake.’”
35 And the same night, the Angel of the LORD went out and struck a hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. So, when they rose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and went his way and returned and dwelt in Nineveh.
37 And as he was in the Temple worshipping Nisroch, his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, killed him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.
20 About that time, Hezekiah was sick to death. And the Prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Put your house in order. For you shall die, and not live.’”
2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,
3 “O LORD, I pray, remember now how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 And before Isaiah had gone out into the middle of the court, the Word of the LORD came to him, saying:
5 “Turn back and tell Hezekiah, the captain of My people, ‘Thus says the LORD God of David, your father: “I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. Behold, I have healed you. On the third day, you shall go up to the House of the LORD.
6 “And I will add fifteen years to your days and will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city for My own sake, and for David My servant’s sake.”’”
7 Then Isaiah said, “Take a lump of dry figs.” And they took it and laid it on the boil. And he recovered.
8 (For Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the House of the LORD on the third day?”
9 And Isaiah answered, “Which sign would you prefer from the LORD, that the LORD will do what He has spoken: that the shadow go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees?”
10 And Hezekiah answered, “It is a small thing for the shadow to pass forward ten degrees. So, not that. But let the shadow go back ten degrees.”
11 And Isaiah the Prophet called to the LORD; and He brought back the shadow ten degrees by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.)
12 The same season, Berodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah was sick.
13 And Hezekiah heard them and showed them his whole treasure house: the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious ointment, the entire house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, and in all his realm, that Hezekiah did not show them.
14 Then Isaiah the Prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”
15 Then he said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen everything that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the Word of the LORD:
17 ‘Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and whatever your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried into Babylon. Nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD,
18 ‘And they shall take away some of your sons who shall proceed out of you, which you shall beget, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Word of the LORD which you have spoken is good.” For he said, “Is it not good if there is peace and truth in my days?”
20 Concerning the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his valiant deeds, and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers. And Manasseh, his son, reigned in his place.
21 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign and reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. Also, his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For he went back and built the high places which Hezekiah, his father, had destroyed. And he erected altars for Baal and made a grove (as did Ahab, king of Israel) and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.
4 Also, he built altars in the House of the LORD, of the which the LORD said, “In Jerusalem will I put My Name.”
5 And he built altars for all the host of the heaven in the two courts of the House of the LORD.
6 And he made his sons pass through the fire and gave himself to witchcraft and sorcery. And he used mediums and those who were soothsayers and did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to anger Him.
7 And he set the image of the grove that he had made in the House (of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon, his son, “In this House and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put My Name forever.
8 “And I will never again make the feet of Israel move out of the land which I gave their fathers, so that they will observe and do all that I have Commanded them, according to all the Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”).
9 Yet they did not obey. But Manasseh led them out of the way, to do more wickedly than the heathen did (whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel).
10 Therefore, the LORD spoke by His servants, the Prophets, saying,
11 “Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done such abominations, and has worked more wickedly than all that the Amorites who were before him did, and has also made Judah sin with his idols,
12 “therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring a misery upon Jerusalem and Judah, so that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 ‘And I will stretch the line of Samaria and the plummet of the House of Ahab over Jerusalem. And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, which he wipes and turns upside down.
14 ‘And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. And they shall be robbed and plundered by all their adversaries,
15 ‘because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger since the time their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
16 Moreover, Manasseh shed exceedingly much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from end to end (besides his sin with which he had made Judah sin and do evil in the sight of the LORD).
17 Concerning the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon, his son, reigned in his place.
19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. Also, his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 For he walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them.
22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.
24 And the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people made Josiah, his son, king in his place.
25 Concerning the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
26 And they buried him in his sepulcher, in the garden of Uzza. And Josiah, his son, reigned in his place.
4 Now, when the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),
3 He left Judea and departed again into Galilee.
4 And it was necessary for Him to go through Samaria.
5 Then He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the place that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
6 And Jacob’s Well was there. Jesus then, wearied by the journey, sat upon the Well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me drink.”
8 For His disciples had gone into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me for drink, who is a woman of Samaria? For the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans.”
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and Who it is Who says to you, ‘Give me drink’, you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you water of life.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the Well is deep. From where then have You the water of life?
12 Are You greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the Well; and he himself drank thereof, and his sons, and his cattle?”
13 Jesus answered, and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water, shall thirst again.
14 “But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me of that water, that I may never thirst, nor come here to draw again.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.”
17 The woman answered, and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband.’
18 For you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. That you said truly.”
19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a Prophet.
20 “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. And You say that Jerusalem is the place wherein it is necessary to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me. The hour comes when you shall neither on this mountain, nor at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 “You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know. For salvation is from the Jews.
23 “But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in Spirit and Truth. For the Father requires even such to worship Him.
24 “God is a Spirit. And those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know well that Messiah shall come, Who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I am He, Who speaks to you.”
27 And upon this came His disciples, and marveled that He talked with a woman. Yet no one said to Him, “What do You seek?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
28 The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,
29 “Come! See a Man who has told me all things that ever I did! Can this be the Christ?”
30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
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