RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

he went: and he rebelled against the melech of Ashshur,
and did not serve him.
8 He killed the Plishtim, even to Azah, and the borders of
it, from the Tower of The Watchmen to the fortified city.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of melech
Hizqiyahu, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of
Elah melech of Yisrael, that Shalmaneser melech of
Ashshur came up against Shomron, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: 1008 even in
the sixth year of Hizqiyahu, that is the ninth year of
Hoshea melech of Yisrael, Shomron was taken.
11 And the melech of Ashshur did carry away Yisrael to
Ashshur, and put them in Chalach and in Chavor by the
River Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of vuvh their
Elohim, but transgressed His brit, and all that Moshe the
eved of vuvh commanded, and would not listen to them,
nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of melech Hizqiyahu did
Sancheriv melech of Ashshur come up against all the
fortified cities of Yahudah, and took them.
14 And Hizqiyahu melech of Yahudah sent to the melech
of Ashshur to Lachish, saying, I have done wrong; return
from me: that which you put on me will I bear. And the
melech of Ashshur appointed to Hizqiyahu melech of
Yahudah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents
of gold.
15 And Hizqiyahu gave him all the silver that was found
in the Bayit of vuvh, and in the treasures of the melech's
bayit.
16 At that time did Hizqiyahu cut off the gold from the
doors of the Hekal of vuvh, and from the pillars which
Hizqiyahu melech of Yahudah had overlaid, and gave it
to the melech of Ashshur.
17 And the melech of Ashshur sent Tartan and Rav-Saris
and Rav-Shakeh from Lachish to melech Hizqiyahu with
great armies against Yahrushalayim. And they went up
and came to Yahrushalayim. And when they had come
up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool,
which is in the highway of the Launderers’ Field.
18 And when they had called to the melech, there came
out to them Elyaquim the son of Hilkiyahu, who was over
the household, and Shevna the Sopher, and Yoah the son
of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rav-Shakeh said to them, Speak now to
Hizqiyahu, This says the great melech, the melech of
Ashshur, What confidence is this in which you trust?
20 You say, but they are but vain words, I have counsel
and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that
you rebel against me?
21 Now, see, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed,
even upon Mitzrayim, on which if a man lean, it will go
into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh melech of
Mitzrayim to all that trust in him.
22 But if you say to me, We trust in vuvh our Elohim: is
not that He, whose idol temples and whose altars
Hizqiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yahudah and
Yahrushalayim, You shall worship before this altar in
Yahrushalayim?
23 Now therefore, I ask you, give pledges to my master
the melech of Ashshur, and I will deliver you two
thousand horses, if you are able to put riders on them.
24 How then will you turn away the face of one captain of
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the least of my master's avadim, and put your trust in
Mitzrayim for mirkavot and for horsemen?
25 Have I now come up without vuvh against this place to
destroy it? vuvh said to me, Go up against this land, and
destroy it.
26 Then said Elyaquim the son of Hilkiyahu, and Shevna,
and Yoah, to Rav-Shakeh, Speak, I ask you, to your
avadim in the Aramaic language; for we understand it:
but do not talk with us in the Yahudim’s language in the
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27 But Rav-Shakeh said to them, Has my master sent me
to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Has he
not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, that they may
eat their own dung, and drink their own urine with you.
28 Then Rav-Shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in
the Yahudim’s language, and spoke, saying, Hear the
word of the great melech, the melech of Ashshur:
29 This says the melech, Let not Hizqiyahu deceive you:
for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hizqiyahu make you trust in vuvh, saying,
vuvh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
delivered into the hand of the melech of Ashshur.
31 Listen not to Hizqiyahu: for this says the melech of
Ashshur, Make an agreement with me by a present, and
come out to me, and then eat every man of his own vine,
and every man of his own fig eytz, and drink every man
the mayim of his own cistern:
32 Until I come; and take you away to a land like your
own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of lechem and
vineyards, a land of olive eytzim and of honey, that you
may live, and not die: and listen not to Hizqiyahu, when
he misleads you, saying, vuvh will deliver us.
33 Have any of the elohim of the nations delivered at all
its land out of the hand of the melech of Ashshur?
34 Where are the elohim of Hamath, and of Arpad?
Where are the elohim of Sefarvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Have they delivered Shomron out of my hand?
35 Who are they among all the elohim of the countries
that have delivered their country out of my hand; that
vuvh should deliver Yahrushalayim out of my hand?
36 But the people held their silence, and answered him
not a word: for the melech's commandment said, Answer
him not.
37 Then came Elyaquim the son of Hilkiyahu, who was
over the household, and Shevna the Sopher, and Yoah the
son of Asaph the recorder, to Hizqiyahu with their clothes
torn, and told him all the words of Rav-Shakeh.
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And it came to pass, when melech Hizqiyahu heard
it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the Bayit of vuvh.
2 And he sent Elyaquim, who was over the household,
and Shevna the Sopher, and the zechanim of the
Kohanim, covered with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the navi
the son of Amotz.
3 And they said to him, This says Hizqiyahu, This day is
a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the
children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
4 It may be vuvh your Elohim will hear all the words of
Rav-Shakeh, whom the melech of Ashshur his master has
sent to reproach the living Elohim; and will reprove the
words which vuvh your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift