HEZEKIAH

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• 2 Kings 16:20

  Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 18:1

  Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

• 2 Kings 18:2

  He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

• 2 Kings 18:3

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

• 2 Kings 18:4

  He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

• 2 Kings 18:5

  He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

• 2 Kings 18:6

  For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

• 2 Kings 18:7

  Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

• 2 Kings 18:19

  Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

• 2 Kings 19:20

  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

• 2 Kings 19:21

  This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

• 2 Kings 19:22

  Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

• 2 Kings 19:23

  By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

• 2 Kings 19:24

  I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

• 2 Kings 19:27

  But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

• 2 Kings 19:28

  Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

• 2 Kings 19:29

  “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

• 2 Kings 19:30

  The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

• 2 Kings 19:31

  For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.

• 2 Kings 19:32

  “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

• 2 Kings 19:33

  By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 19:34

  ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

• 2 Kings 20:1

  In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’”

• 2 Kings 20:2

  Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,

• 2 Kings 20:3

  “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, 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.

• 2 Kings 20:4

  Before Isaiah had gone out into the middle part of the city, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying,

• 2 Kings 20:5

  “Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 20:6

  I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.”’”

• 2 Kings 20:7

  Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

• 2 Kings 20:8

  Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What will be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I will go up to Yahweh’s house the third day?”

• 2 Kings 20:9

  Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the thing that he has spoken: should the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”

• 2 Kings 20:10

  Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.”

• 2 Kings 20:11

  Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

• 2 Kings 20:12

  At that time Berodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

• 2 Kings 20:13

  Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

• 2 Kings 20:14

  Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”

• 2 Kings 20:15

  He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”

• 2 Kings 20:16

  Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.

• 2 Kings 20:17

  ‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 20:18

  ‘They will take away some of your sons who will issue from you, whom you will father; and they will be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

• 2 Kings 20:19

  Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “Isn’t it so, if peace and truth will be in my days?”

• 2 Kings 20:20

  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 20:21

  Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 3:13

  Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

• 1 Chronicles 3:23

  The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.

• 1 Chronicles 4:39

  They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

• 1 Chronicles 4:40

  They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham.

• 1 Chronicles 4:41

  These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.

• 1 Chronicles 4:42

  Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

• 1 Chronicles 4:43

  They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 29:1

  Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

• 2 Chronicles 29:2

  He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

• 2 Chronicles 31:1

  Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

• 2 Chronicles 31:2

  Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of Yahweh’s camp.

• 2 Chronicles 31:3

  He also appointed the king’s portion of his posessions for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in Yahweh’s law.

• 2 Chronicles 31:4

  Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law.

• 2 Chronicles 31:5

  As soon as the commandment went out, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.

• 2 Chronicles 31:6

  The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them in heaps.

• 2 Chronicles 31:7

  In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

• 2 Chronicles 31:8

  When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 31:9

  Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.

• 2 Chronicles 31:10

  Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have plenty left over, for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.”

• 2 Chronicles 31:11

  Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house, and they prepared them.

• 2 Chronicles 31:12

  They brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things faithfully. Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them, and Shimei his brother was second.

• 2 Chronicles 31:13

  Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of God’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 31:14

  Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute Yahweh’s offerings and the most holy things.

• 2 Chronicles 31:15

  Under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, to the great as well as to the small;

• 2 Chronicles 31:16

  besides those who were listed by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into Yahweh’s house, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions;

• 2 Chronicles 31:17

  and those who were listed by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions;

• 2 Chronicles 31:18

  and those who were listed by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation; for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.

• 2 Chronicles 31:19

  Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed by genealogy among the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 31:20

  Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

• 2 Chronicles 31:21

  In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:24

  In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.

• 2 Chronicles 32:25

  But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 32:26

  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:27

  Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;

• 2 Chronicles 32:28

  also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds.

• 2 Chronicles 32:29

  Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant posessions.

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

• 2 Chronicles 32:32

  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 32:33

  Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 33:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• Ezra 2:16

  The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

• Nehemiah 2:13

  I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

• Nehemiah 2:14

  Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

• Nehemiah 2:15

  Then went I up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

• Nehemiah 3:13

  Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.

• Nehemiah 3:16

  After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

• Nehemiah 7:21

  The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

• Nehemiah 10:17

  Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

• Proverbs 25:1

  These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

• Isaiah 7:3

  Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.

• Isaiah 22:9

  You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

• Isaiah 22:10

  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

• Isaiah 22:11

  You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.

• Isaiah 38:1

  In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

• Isaiah 38:2

  Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

• Isaiah 38:3

  and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

• Isaiah 38:4

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Isaiah, saying,

• Isaiah 38:5

  “Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh says, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

• Isaiah 38:6

  I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

• Isaiah 38:7

  This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

• Isaiah 38:8

  Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”

• Isaiah 38:9

  The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

• Isaiah 38:10

  I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

• Isaiah 38:11

  I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

• Isaiah 38:12

  My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 38:13

  I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

• Isaiah 38:14

  I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

• Isaiah 38:15

  What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

• Isaiah 38:16

  Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

• Isaiah 38:17

  Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

• Isaiah 38:18

  For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

• Isaiah 38:19

  The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

• Isaiah 38:20

  Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.

• Isaiah 38:21

  Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

• Isaiah 38:22

  Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”

• Isaiah 39:5

  Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of Yahweh of Armies:

• Isaiah 39:6

  ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up until today, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 39:7

  ‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”

• Jeremiah 26:18

  “Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

• Jeremiah 26:19

  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

• Matthew 1:9

  Uzziah became the father of Jotham. Jotham became the father of Ahaz. Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah.