12:017:035 With whom the lord had made a covenant,
and charged them,
saying,
Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to
them,
nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
12:017:036 But the lord, who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt with
great
power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and
him
shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
12:017:037 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and
the law, and the
commandment,
which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do
for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
12:017:038 And the covenant that I have made with
you ye shall not
forget;
neither shall ye fear other gods.
12:017:039 But the lord your God ye shall fear;
and he shall deliver you
out
of the hand of all your enemies.
12:017:040 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they
did after their former
manner.
12:017:041 So these nations feared the lord,
and served their graven
images,
both their children, and their children’s children:
as
did
their fathers, so do they unto this day.
12:018:001 Now it came to pass in the third year of
Hoshea son of Elah
king
of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah
began
to reign.
12:018:002 Twenty and five years old was he when he
began to reign; and
he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His
mother’s
name
also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
12:018:003 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the lord,
according
to all that David his father did.
12:018:004 He removed the high places, and brake the
images, and cut down
the
groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that
Moses
had
made: for unto those days the children of Israel
did burn
incense
to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
12:018:005 He trusted in the lord God of Israel;
so that after him was
none
like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that
were
before
him.
12:018:006 For he clave to the lord, and departed
not from following him,
but
kept his commandments, which the lord commanded
Moses.
12:018:007 And the lord was with him; and he
prospered whithersoever he
went
forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria,
and
served
him not.
12:018:008 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza,
and the borders
thereof,
from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
12:018:009 And it came to pass in the fourth year
of king Hezekiah, which
was
the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
that
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria,
and
besieged
it.


