14:032:012 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his
high places and his
altars,
and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall
worship
before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
14:032:013 Know ye not what I and my fathers have
done unto all the
people
of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those
lands
any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
14:032:014 Who was there among all the gods of those
nations that my
fathers
utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out
of
mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver
you out
of
mine hand?
14:032:015 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive
you, nor persuade you
on
this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god
of any
nation
or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine
hand,
and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less
shall
your
God deliver you out of mine hand?
14:032:016 And his servants spake yet more against
the lord God, and
against
his servant Hezekiah.
14:032:017 He wrote also letters to rail on the lord
God of Israel, and
to
speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations
of
other
lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand,
so
shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out
of
mine
hand.
14:032:018 Then they cried with a loud voice in the
Jews’ speech unto the
people
of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them,
and
to trouble them; that they might take the city.
14:032:019 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem,
as against the
gods
of the people of the earth, which were the work of
the
hands
of man.
14:032:020 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and
the prophet Isaiah
the
son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
14:032:021 And the lord sent an angel, which
cut off all the mighty men
of
valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of
the
king
of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face
to his own
land.
And when he was come into the house of his god, they
that
came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the
sword.
14:032:022 Thus the lord saved Hezekiah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem
from
the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from
the
hand
of all other, and guided them on every side.
14:032:023 And many brought gifts unto the lord
to Jerusalem, and
presents
to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified
in
the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
14:032:024 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the
death, and prayed unto
the
lord: and he spake unto him, and he gave
him a sign.


