WEBVTT 00:00:00.919 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.839 in a year. Today's reading is from 2 Kings chapter 00:00:09.839 --> 00:00:15.900 19, as well as Isaiah chapters 36 and 37. 2 Kings 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:19.620 chapter 19 And so it was, when King Hezekiah 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:22.280 heard it, that he tore his cloth, covered himself 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:24.620 with sackcloth, and went into the house of the 00:00:24.620 --> 00:00:27.519 Lord. Then he sent Eliakim. who was over the 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.000 household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.780 of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah 00:00:32.780 --> 00:00:35.340 the prophet, the son of Amoz. And they said to 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:38.719 him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:41.659 trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy. For the children 00:00:41.659 --> 00:00:43.719 have come to birth, but there is no strength 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:46.380 to bring them forth. It may be that the Lord 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:49.179 your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, 00:00:49.259 --> 00:00:51.740 whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent 00:00:51.740 --> 00:00:54.219 to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the 00:00:54.219 --> 00:00:56.950 words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore 00:00:56.950 --> 00:00:59.969 lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. 00:01:00.189 --> 00:01:03.070 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 00:01:03.229 --> 00:01:05.730 and Isaiah said to them, Thus you shall say to 00:01:05.730 --> 00:01:08.590 your master, Thus says the Lord, Do not be afraid 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:11.010 of the words which you have heard, with which 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:13.510 the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed 00:01:13.510 --> 00:01:16.370 me. Surely I will send the Spirit upon him, and 00:01:16.370 --> 00:01:18.810 he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, 00:01:18.950 --> 00:01:21.709 and I will cause him to fall by the sword in 00:01:21.709 --> 00:01:24.549 his own land. Then the Rabshakeh returned and 00:01:24.549 --> 00:01:27.129 found the king of Assyria warring against Libna, 00:01:27.250 --> 00:01:29.750 for he heard that he had departed from Lashish. 00:01:29.950 --> 00:01:32.709 And the king heard concerning Terhaka, king of 00:01:32.709 --> 00:01:35.629 Ethiopia, Look, he has come out to make war with 00:01:35.629 --> 00:01:38.290 you. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, 00:01:38.310 --> 00:01:40.730 saying, Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah, king 00:01:40.730 --> 00:01:43.409 of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom 00:01:43.409 --> 00:01:46.209 you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall 00:01:46.209 --> 00:01:48.590 not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:51.400 Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.099 have done to all lands by utterly destroying 00:01:54.099 --> 00:01:56.859 them, and shall you be delivered? Have the gods 00:01:56.859 --> 00:01:59.200 of the nations delivered those whom my fathers 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.659 have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezef and 00:02:02.659 --> 00:02:05.659 the people of Eden who were in Telassar? Where 00:02:05.659 --> 00:02:08.340 is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and 00:02:08.340 --> 00:02:11.139 the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena and 00:02:11.139 --> 00:02:14.090 Eva? And Hezekiah received the letter from the 00:02:14.090 --> 00:02:16.349 hand of the messengers and read it. And Hezekiah 00:02:16.349 --> 00:02:18.650 went up to the house of the Lord and spread it 00:02:18.650 --> 00:02:21.449 before the Lord. Then Hezekiah prayed before 00:02:21.449 --> 00:02:24.389 the Lord and said, O Lord God of Israel, the 00:02:24.389 --> 00:02:26.490 one who dwells between the cherubim, you are 00:02:26.490 --> 00:02:29.250 God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. 00:02:29.409 --> 00:02:32.030 You have made heaven and earth. Incline your 00:02:32.030 --> 00:02:34.669 ear, O Lord, and hear. Open your eyes, O Lord, 00:02:34.750 --> 00:02:38.189 and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, which 00:02:38.189 --> 00:02:41.139 he has sent to reproach the living God. Truly, 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:43.819 Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the 00:02:43.819 --> 00:02:46.400 nations and their lands, and have cast their 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.300 gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:52.479 the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.199 they destroyed them. Now therefore, O Lord our 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.319 God, I pray, save us from his hand, that all 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:00.699 the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are 00:03:00.699 --> 00:03:04.120 the Lord God, you alone. Then Isaiah the son 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:07.240 of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:10.150 Lord God of Israel, Because you have prayed to 00:03:10.150 --> 00:03:12.689 me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, I have 00:03:12.689 --> 00:03:15.729 heard. This is the word which the Lord has spoken 00:03:15.729 --> 00:03:18.650 concerning him. The virgin, the daughter of Zion, 00:03:18.849 --> 00:03:22.009 has despised you, laughed you to scorn. The daughter 00:03:22.009 --> 00:03:24.270 of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your 00:03:24.270 --> 00:03:27.129 back. Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? 00:03:27.250 --> 00:03:29.789 Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted 00:03:29.789 --> 00:03:32.250 up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of 00:03:32.250 --> 00:03:35.409 Israel. By your messengers you have reproached 00:03:35.409 --> 00:03:38.229 the Lord and said, By the multitude of my chariots 00:03:38.229 --> 00:03:40.610 I have come up to the height of the mountains, 00:03:40.830 --> 00:03:43.689 to the limits of Lebanon. I will cut down its 00:03:43.689 --> 00:03:46.969 tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will 00:03:46.969 --> 00:03:49.969 enter the extremity of its borders to its fruitful 00:03:49.969 --> 00:03:53.310 forest. I have dug and drunk strange water, and 00:03:53.310 --> 00:03:55.830 with the soles of my feet I have dried up all 00:03:55.830 --> 00:03:58.289 the brooks of defense. Did you not hear long 00:03:58.289 --> 00:04:01.490 ago how I made it, from ancient times that I 00:04:01.490 --> 00:04:04.629 formed it? Now I have brought it to pass that 00:04:04.629 --> 00:04:07.810 you should be for crushing fortified cities into 00:04:07.810 --> 00:04:10.909 heaps of ruins. Therefore their inhabitants had 00:04:10.909 --> 00:04:13.430 little power. They were dismayed and confounded. 00:04:13.509 --> 00:04:16.029 They were as the grass of the field, and the 00:04:16.029 --> 00:04:18.810 green herb as the grass on the housetops, and 00:04:18.810 --> 00:04:22.410 grain blighted before it is grown. But I know 00:04:22.410 --> 00:04:24.529 your dwelling place. You're going out and you're 00:04:24.529 --> 00:04:27.360 coming in, and you rage against me. because your 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.500 rage against me and your tumult have come up 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:32.300 to my ears. Therefore I will put my hook in your 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:34.980 nose, and my brittle in your lips, and I will 00:04:34.980 --> 00:04:38.000 turn you back by the way which you came. This 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:40.620 shall be a sign to you. You shall eat this year 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:44.040 such as grows of itself, and in the second year 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.199 what springs from the same. Also in the third 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:50.879 year sow and reap, plant vineyards, and eat the 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.180 fruit of them. And the remnant who have escaped 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:55.480 of the house of Judah, shall again take root 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:58.639 downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:01.319 shall go a remnant, and those who escape from 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.899 Mount Zion, the zeal of the Lord of hosts, will 00:05:03.899 --> 00:05:06.620 do this. Therefore thus says the Lord concerning 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:09.540 the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:12.699 city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before 00:05:12.699 --> 00:05:15.860 it with shield, nor build a siege mound against 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:18.879 it. By the way that he came, by the same shall 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.480 he return. And he shall not come into this city, 00:05:21.579 --> 00:05:24.529 says the Lord, for I will defend this city. to 00:05:24.529 --> 00:05:27.790 save it for my own sake and for my servant David's 00:05:27.790 --> 00:05:30.970 sake. And it came to pass on a certain night 00:05:30.970 --> 00:05:33.329 that the angel of the Lord went out and killed 00:05:33.329 --> 00:05:35.850 in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:38.269 eighty -five thousand. And when people arose 00:05:38.269 --> 00:05:40.610 early in the morning, there were the corpses 00:05:40.610 --> 00:05:44.029 all dead. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed 00:05:44.029 --> 00:05:47.250 and went away, returned home, and remained at 00:05:47.250 --> 00:05:50.470 Nineveh. Now it came to pass, as he was worshipping 00:05:50.470 --> 00:05:55.019 in the temple of Nishrak, his god, Adram -Melech 00:05:55.019 --> 00:05:57.639 and Sherezer struck him down with the sword, 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.939 and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then 00:06:00.939 --> 00:06:07.959 Isar -Hadon, his son, reigned in his place. Now 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:11.279 it came to pass, in the fourteenth year of King 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:13.759 Hezekiah, that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, 00:06:13.899 --> 00:06:16.879 came up against all the fortified cities of Judah 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.279 and took them. Then the king of Assyria sent 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:21.839 the Rabshakeh, with a great army from Lashish 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.920 to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:27.620 the aqueduct from the upper pool on the highway 00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:30.240 to the fuller's field. And Ilya came, the son 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.100 of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna 00:06:33.100 --> 00:06:36.019 the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.899 came out to meet him. Then the Rabshakeh said 00:06:38.899 --> 00:06:42.120 to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.480 king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.639 this in which you trust? I say you speak of having 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.920 plans and power for war, but they are mere words. 00:06:52.350 --> 00:06:54.870 now in whom do you trust that you rebel against 00:06:54.870 --> 00:06:57.970 me look you are trusting in the staff of this 00:06:57.970 --> 00:07:01.329 broken reed egypt on which if a man leans it 00:07:01.329 --> 00:07:04.230 will go into his hand and pierce it so is pharaoh 00:07:04.230 --> 00:07:07.050 king of egypt to all who trust in him but if 00:07:07.050 --> 00:07:10.180 you say to me we trust in the lord our god Is 00:07:10.180 --> 00:07:13.100 it not he whose high places and whose altars 00:07:13.100 --> 00:07:15.980 Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and 00:07:15.980 --> 00:07:18.519 Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar? 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:21.800 Now therefore I urge you, give a pledge to my 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:24.240 master the king of Assyria, and I will give you 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.019 two thousand horses, if you are able on your 00:07:27.019 --> 00:07:30.120 part to put riders on them. How then will you 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.199 repel one captain of the least of my master's 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.379 servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots 00:07:36.379 --> 00:07:39.209 and horsemen? Have I now come up without the 00:07:39.209 --> 00:07:41.990 Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord 00:07:41.990 --> 00:07:44.449 said to me, Go up against this land and destroy 00:07:44.449 --> 00:07:47.610 it. Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:50.430 Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, 00:07:50.430 --> 00:07:52.470 for we understand it, and do not speak to us 00:07:52.470 --> 00:07:54.910 in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are 00:07:54.910 --> 00:07:58.009 on the wall. But the Rabshakeh said, Has my master 00:07:58.009 --> 00:08:00.889 sent me to your master and to you to speak these 00:08:00.889 --> 00:08:03.610 words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, 00:08:03.709 --> 00:08:06.009 who will eat and drink their own waste with you? 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:08.899 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with 00:08:08.899 --> 00:08:11.560 a loud voice in Hebrew and said, Hear the words 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.680 of the great king, the king of Assyria. Thus 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:17.500 says the king, Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.759 for he will not be able to deliver you. Nor let 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:23.160 Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:26.480 The Lord will surely deliver us. This city will 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:29.019 not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 00:08:29.259 --> 00:08:32.200 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:35.279 king of Assyria. Make peace with me by a present, 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.740 and come out to me. And every one of you eat 00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:41.299 from his own vine, and every one from his own 00:08:41.299 --> 00:08:43.860 fig tree. And every one of you drink the waters 00:08:43.860 --> 00:08:46.539 of his own cistern, until I come and take you 00:08:46.539 --> 00:08:49.559 away to a land like your own land, a land of 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.379 grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:56.000 Beware, lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.759 Lord will deliver us. Has any one of the gods 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.820 of the nations delivered its land from the hand 00:09:01.820 --> 00:09:04.460 of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of 00:09:04.460 --> 00:09:07.639 Hamad and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvim? 00:09:07.980 --> 00:09:10.700 Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.039 Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:16.860 their countries from my hand, that the Lord should 00:09:16.860 --> 00:09:19.700 deliver Jerusalem from my hand? But they held 00:09:19.700 --> 00:09:22.159 their peace and answered him not a word. For 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.659 the king's commandment was, Do not answer him. 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:27.600 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:29.919 the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:32.779 son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with 00:09:32.779 --> 00:09:35.279 their clothes torn, and told him the words of 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:40.279 the Rabshakeh. Chapter 37 And so it was, when 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:42.679 King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.159 covered himself with sackcloth, and went into 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:47.480 the house of the Lord. Then he sent Eliakim, 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:50.019 who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, 00:09:50.019 --> 00:09:52.580 and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, 00:09:52.700 --> 00:09:55.159 to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. And they 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:58.259 said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is 00:09:58.259 --> 00:10:00.879 a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy, for 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:02.980 the children have come to birth, but there is 00:10:02.980 --> 00:10:05.759 no strength to bring them forth. It may be that 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.700 the Lord your God will hear the words of the 00:10:07.700 --> 00:10:10.720 Rabshakeh, whom his master, the king of Assyria, 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:13.100 has sent to reproach the living God, and will 00:10:13.100 --> 00:10:15.820 rebuke the words which the Lord your God has 00:10:15.820 --> 00:10:18.539 heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the 00:10:18.539 --> 00:10:21.000 remnant that is left. So the servants of king 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.639 Hezekiah came to Isaiah, and Isaiah said to them, 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.299 Thus you shall say to your master, Thus says 00:10:26.299 --> 00:10:29.419 the Lord, Do not be afraid of the words which 00:10:29.419 --> 00:10:31.419 you have heard, with which the servants of the 00:10:31.419 --> 00:10:34.299 king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Surely I 00:10:34.299 --> 00:10:36.700 will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear 00:10:36.700 --> 00:10:39.519 a rumor and return to his own land, and I will 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:42.580 cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 00:10:43.139 --> 00:10:45.559 Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.500 of Assyria warring against Libna, for he heard 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:51.039 that he had departed from Lashish. And the king 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.700 heard concerning Terhaka king of Ethiopia, He 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:56.220 has come out to make war with you. So when he 00:10:56.220 --> 00:10:58.740 heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.340 Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.139 saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, 00:11:04.379 --> 00:11:07.759 deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.700 into the hand of the king of Assyria. Look, you 00:11:10.700 --> 00:11:13.080 have heard what the kings of Assyria have done 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.940 to all lands by utterly destroying them. And 00:11:15.940 --> 00:11:18.259 shall you be delivered? Have the gods of the 00:11:18.259 --> 00:11:20.580 nations delivered those whom my fathers have 00:11:20.580 --> 00:11:24.039 destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph? and the 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.799 people of Eden who were in Telassar. Where is 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.980 the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the 00:11:28.980 --> 00:11:31.820 king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hinnah, and Eva? 00:11:32.299 --> 00:11:34.500 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand 00:11:34.500 --> 00:11:36.860 of the messengers and read it. And Hezekiah went 00:11:36.860 --> 00:11:38.980 up to the house of the Lord and spread it before 00:11:38.980 --> 00:11:41.580 the Lord. Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying, 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.139 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the one who dwells 00:11:45.139 --> 00:11:47.620 between the cherubim, you are God, you alone 00:11:47.620 --> 00:11:50.259 of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made 00:11:50.259 --> 00:11:53.019 heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O Lord, and 00:11:53.019 --> 00:11:55.740 hear. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see, and hear 00:11:55.740 --> 00:11:58.259 the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to 00:11:58.259 --> 00:12:01.259 reproach the living God. Truly, Lord, the kings 00:12:01.259 --> 00:12:04.200 of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:06.740 their lands, and have cast their gods into the 00:12:06.740 --> 00:12:09.440 fire. For they were not gods, but the work of 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.679 man's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:15.440 them. Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:17.779 from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth 00:12:17.779 --> 00:12:21.299 may know that you are the Lord, you alone. Then 00:12:21.299 --> 00:12:23.500 Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, 00:12:23.740 --> 00:12:26.500 Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Because you 00:12:26.500 --> 00:12:29.519 have prayed to me against Sinatrib king of Assyria. 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.419 This is the word which the Lord has spoken concerning 00:12:32.419 --> 00:12:36.039 him. The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.759 you, laughed you to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.740 has shaken her head behind your back. Whom have 00:12:41.740 --> 00:12:44.879 you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.259 you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes 00:12:47.259 --> 00:12:50.679 on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. By your 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.039 servants you have reproached the Lord and said, 00:12:53.220 --> 00:12:55.860 By the multitude of my chariots I have come up 00:12:55.860 --> 00:12:57.740 to the height of the mountains, to the limits 00:12:57.740 --> 00:13:01.120 of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.279 its choice cypress trees. I will enter its farthest 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.519 height to its fruitful forest. I have dug and 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:10.779 drunk water, and with the soles of my feet I 00:13:10.779 --> 00:13:14.039 have dried up all the brooks of defense. Did 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.960 you not hear long ago how I made it, from ancient 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.759 times that I formed it? Now I have brought it 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:22.620 to pass that you should be for crushing fortified 00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:25.559 cities into heaps of ruins. Therefore their inhabitants 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:28.580 had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. 00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:31.120 They were as the grass of the field and the green 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:34.000 herb, as the grass on the housetops, and grain 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.960 blighted before it is grown. But I know your 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.320 dwelling place. You're going out, and you're 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.330 coming in, and you rage against me. Because your 00:13:42.330 --> 00:13:44.549 rage against me and your tumult have come up 00:13:44.549 --> 00:13:47.450 to my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your 00:13:47.450 --> 00:13:50.509 nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn 00:13:50.509 --> 00:13:53.750 you back by the way which you came. This shall 00:13:53.750 --> 00:13:56.509 be a sign to you. You shall eat this year such 00:13:56.509 --> 00:13:59.210 as grows of itself, and the second year what 00:13:59.210 --> 00:14:01.769 springs from the same. Also in the third year 00:14:01.769 --> 00:14:04.970 sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat the fruit 00:14:04.970 --> 00:14:07.350 of them, and the remnant who have escaped of 00:14:07.350 --> 00:14:09.669 the house of Judah shall again take root downward. 00:14:10.169 --> 00:14:13.029 and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall 00:14:13.029 --> 00:14:15.450 go a remnant, and those who escape from Mount 00:14:15.450 --> 00:14:18.490 Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. 00:14:18.789 --> 00:14:21.389 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king 00:14:21.389 --> 00:14:24.090 of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, 00:14:24.169 --> 00:14:27.090 nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it 00:14:27.090 --> 00:14:29.629 with shield, nor build a siege mound against 00:14:29.629 --> 00:14:32.870 it. By the way that he came, by the same shall 00:14:32.870 --> 00:14:35.570 he return. And he shall not come into this city, 00:14:35.870 --> 00:14:38.429 says the Lord, for I will defend this city to 00:14:38.429 --> 00:14:42.110 save it for my own sake and for my servant David's 00:14:42.110 --> 00:14:44.710 sake. Then the angel of the Lord went out and 00:14:44.710 --> 00:14:47.269 killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred 00:14:47.269 --> 00:14:49.350 and eighty -five thousand. And when the people 00:14:49.350 --> 00:14:52.389 arose early in the morning, there were the corpses 00:14:52.389 --> 00:14:55.830 all dead. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed 00:14:55.830 --> 00:14:58.529 and went away, returned home, and remained at 00:14:58.529 --> 00:15:01.070 Nineveh. Now it came to pass, as he was worshipping 00:15:01.070 --> 00:15:04.110 in the house of Nishrak, his god, that his sons 00:15:04.110 --> 00:15:07.700 Adram -Melech, And Sharazar struck him down with 00:15:07.700 --> 00:15:10.139 the sword, and they escaped into the land of 00:15:10.139 --> 00:15:13.460 Ararat. Then Isarhaddon, his son, reigned in 00:15:13.460 --> 00:15:20.700 his place. I hope you enjoyed today's reading 00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:23.019 as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing 00:15:23.019 --> 00:15:25.059 you again tomorrow to continue on our journey. 00:15:25.220 --> 00:15:26.860 God bless you and have a great day.