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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Promise to David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After David was settled in his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, &#8220;Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is under a tent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Nathan replied to David, &#8220;Whatever you have in mind, do it, for God is with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But that night the word of God came to Nathan, saying:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: You are not the one to build me a house to dwell in. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt to this day. I have moved from one tent site to another, from one dwelling place to another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say to any of their leaders</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:6 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judges</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 10</span></span></span><span class="content"> whom I commanded to shepherd my people, &#8220;Why have you not built me a house of cedar?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, tell my servant David, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says: I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also subdue all your enemies.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.17.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I declare to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will build a house for you: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He is the one who will build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever; his throne will be established forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then King David went in and sat before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he said:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.17.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Who am I, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And as if this were not enough in your sight, my God, you have spoken about the future of the house of your servant. You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, have looked on me as though I were the most exalted of men.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;What more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CH.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no one like you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CH.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And who is like your people Israel&#8212;the one nation on earth whose God went out to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for yourself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You made your people Israel your very own forever, and you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have become their God.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CH.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CH.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, let the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house be established forever. Do as you promised, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">so that it will be established and that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God over Israel, is Israel&#8217;s God!&#8217; And the house of your servant David will be established before you.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CH.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CH.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;You, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. So your servant has found courage to pray to you. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CH.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are God! You have promised these good things to your servant. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CH.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have blessed it, and it will be blessed forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="1CH.18">
         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Victories</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the course of time, David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David also defeated the Moabites, and they became subject to him and brought him tribute.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Moreover, David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah, in the vicinity of Hamath, when he went to set up his monument at</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to restore his control over</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Euphrates River. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He put garrisons in the Aramean kingdom of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to him and brought him tribute. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave David victory wherever he went.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">David took the gold shields carried by the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From Tebah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Tibhath, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Tebah</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Kun, towns that belonged to Hadadezer, David took a great quantity of bronze, which Solomon used to make the bronze Sea, the pillars and various bronze articles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">he sent his son Hadoram to King David to greet him and congratulate him on his victory in battle over Hadadezer, who had been at war with Tou. Hadoram brought all kinds of articles of gold, of silver and of bronze.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">King David dedicated these articles to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as he had done with the silver and gold he had taken from all these nations: Edom and Moab, the Ammonites and the Philistines, and Amalek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became subject to David. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave David victory wherever he went.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Officials</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">David reigned over all Israel, doing what was just and right for all his people. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:16 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Samuel 8:17); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Abimelek</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was secretary; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and Pelethites; and David&#8217;s sons were chief officials at the king&#8217;s side.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="2KI.19">
         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jerusalem&#8217;s Deliverance Foretold</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They told him, &#8220;This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It may be that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When King Hezekiah&#8217;s officials came to Isaiah, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Isaiah said to them, &#8220;Tell your master, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard&#8212;those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, &#8216;Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them&#8212;the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and spread it out before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And Hezekiah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give ear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and hear; open your eyes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;It is true, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib&#8217;s Fall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is the word that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken against him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Virgin Daughter Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">despises you and mocks you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">Daughter Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">tosses her head as you flee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">Against whom have you raised your voice</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">and lifted your eyes in pride?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">Against the Holy One of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By your messengers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">you have ridiculed the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">And you have said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">&#8220;With my many chariots</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have ascended the heights of the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the utmost heights of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have cut down its tallest cedars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the choicest of its junipers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have reached its remotest parts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the finest of its forests.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I have dug wells in foreign lands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">and drunk the water there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">With the soles of my feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Have you not heard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">Long ago I ordained it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">In days of old I planned it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">now I have brought it to pass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">that you have turned fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">into piles of stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Their people, drained of power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">are dismayed and put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">They are like plants in the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">like tender green shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">like grass sprouting on the roof,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">scorched before it grows up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But I know where you are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">and when you come and go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">and how you rage against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Because you rage against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and because your insolence has reached my ears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">I will put my hook in your nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and my bit in your mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and I will make you return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">by the way you came.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">&#8220;This year you will eat what grows by itself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">and the second year what springs from that.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">But in the third year sow and reap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="content">will take root below and bear fruit above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">&#8220;The zeal of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will accomplish this.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says concerning the king of Assyria:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;He will not enter this city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">or shoot an arrow here.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">He will not come before it with shield</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">or build a siege ramp against it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">By the way that he came he will return;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">he will not enter this city,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I will defend this city and save it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="content">for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That night the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning&#8212;there were all the dead bodies! </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.19.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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