2╦╔ 18:1 ╬OW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE THIRD YEAR OF ╚OSHEA SON OF ┼LAH KING OF ╔SRAEL, THAT ╚EZEKIAH THE SON OF ┴HAZ KING OF ╩UDAH BEGAN TO REIGN.
2╦╔ 18:2 ╘WENTY AND FIVE YEARS OLD WAS HE WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN; AND HE REIGNED TWENTY AND NINE YEARS IN ╩ERUSALEM. ╚IS MOTHER'S NAME ALSO WAS ┴BI, THE DAUGHTER OF ┌ACHARIAH.
2╦╔ 18:3 ┴ND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE ╠╧╥─, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT ─AVID HIS FATHER DID.
2╦╔ 18:4 ╚E REMOVED THE HIGH PLACES, AND BRAKE THE IMAGES, AND CUT DOWN THE GROVES, AND BRAKE IN PIECES THE BRASEN SERPENT THAT ═OSES HAD MADE: FOR UNTO THOSE DAYS THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL DID BURN INCENSE TO IT: AND HE CALLED IT ╬EHUSHTAN.
2╦╔ 18:5 ╚E TRUSTED IN THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL; SO THAT AFTER HIM WAS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL THE KINGS OF ╩UDAH, NOR ANY THAT WERE BEFORE HIM.
2╦╔ 18:6 ╞OR HE CLAVE TO THE ╠╧╥─, AND DEPARTED NOT FROM FOLLOWING HIM, BUT KEPT HIS COMMANDMENTS, WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ COMMANDED ═OSES.
2╦╔ 18:7 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ WAS WITH HIM; AND HE PROSPERED WHITHERSOEVER HE WENT FORTH: AND HE REBELLED AGAINST THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, AND SERVED HIM NOT.
2╦╔ 18:8 ╚E SMOTE THE ╨HILISTINES, EVEN UNTO ╟AZA, AND THE BORDERS THEREOF, FROM THE TOWER OF THE WATCHMEN TO THE FENCED CITY.
2╦╔ 18:9 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF KING ╚EZEKIAH, WHICH WAS THE SEVENTH YEAR OF ╚OSHEA SON OF ┼LAH KING OF ╔SRAEL, THAT ╙HALMANESER KING OF ┴SSYRIA CAME UP AGAINST ╙AMARIA, AND BESIEGED IT.
2╦╔ 18:10 ┴ND AT THE END OF THREE YEARS THEY TOOK IT: EVEN IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF ╚EZEKIAH, THAT IS IN THE NINTH YEAR OF ╚OSHEA KING OF ╔SRAEL, ╙AMARIA WAS TAKEN.
2╦╔ 18:11 ┴ND THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA DID CARRY AWAY ╔SRAEL UNTO ┴SSYRIA, AND PUT THEM IN ╚ALAH AND IN ╚ABOR BY THE RIVER OF ╟OZAN, AND IN THE CITIES OF THE ═EDES:
2╦╔ 18:12 ┬ECAUSE THEY OBEYED NOT THE VOICE OF THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD, BUT TRANSGRESSED HIS COVENANT, AND ALL THAT ═OSES THE SERVANT OF THE ╠╧╥─ COMMANDED, AND WOULD NOT HEAR THEM, NOR DO THEM.
2╦╔ 18:13 ╬OW IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF KING ╚EZEKIAH DID ╙ENNACHERIB KING OF ┴SSYRIA COME UP AGAINST ALL THE FENCED CITIES OF ╩UDAH, AND TOOK THEM.
2╦╔ 18:14 ┴ND ╚EZEKIAH KING OF ╩UDAH SENT TO THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA TO ╠ACHISH, SAYING, ╔ HAVE OFFENDED; RETURN FROM ME: THAT WHICH THOU PUTTEST ON ME WILL ╔ BEAR. ┴ND THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA APPOINTED UNTO ╚EZEKIAH KING OF ╩UDAH THREE HUNDRED TALENTS OF SILVER AND THIRTY TALENTS OF GOLD.
2╦╔ 18:15 ┴ND ╚EZEKIAH GAVE HIM ALL THE SILVER THAT WAS FOUND IN THE HOUSE OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND IN THE TREASURES OF THE KING'S HOUSE.
2╦╔ 18:16 ┴T THAT TIME DID ╚EZEKIAH CUT OFF THE GOLD FROM THE DOORS OF THE TEMPLE OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND FROM THE PILLARS WHICH ╚EZEKIAH KING OF ╩UDAH HAD OVERLAID, AND GAVE IT TO THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA.
2╦╔ 18:17 ┴ND THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA SENT ╘ARTAN AND ╥ABSARIS AND ╥ABSHAKEH FROM ╠ACHISH TO KING ╚EZEKIAH WITH A GREAT HOST AGAINST ╩ERUSALEM. ┴ND THEY WENT UP AND CAME TO ╩ERUSALEM. ┴ND WHEN THEY WERE COME UP, THEY CAME AND STOOD BY THE CONDUIT OF THE UPPER POOL, WHICH IS IN THE HIGHWAY OF THE FULLER'S FIELD.
2╦╔ 18:18 ┴ND WHEN THEY HAD CALLED TO THE KING, THERE CAME OUT TO THEM ┼LIAKIM THE SON OF ╚ILKIAH, WHICH WAS OVER THE HOUSEHOLD, AND ╙HEBNA THE SCRIBE, AND ╩OAH THE SON OF ┴SAPH THE RECORDER.
2╦╔ 18:19 ┴ND ╥ABSHAKEH SAID UNTO THEM, ╙PEAK YE NOW TO ╚EZEKIAH, ╘HUS SAITH THE GREAT KING, THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, ╫HAT CONFIDENCE IS THIS WHEREIN THOU TRUSTEST?
2╦╔ 18:20 ╘HOU SAYEST, (BUT THEY ARE BUT VAIN WORDS,) ╔ HAVE COUNSEL AND STRENGTH FOR THE WAR. ╬OW ON WHOM DOST THOU TRUST, THAT THOU REBELLEST AGAINST ME?
2╦╔ 18:21 ╬OW, BEHOLD, THOU TRUSTEST UPON THE STAFF OF THIS BRUISED REED, EVEN UPON ┼GYPT, ON WHICH IF A MAN LEAN, IT WILL GO INTO HIS HAND, AND PIERCE IT: SO IS ╨HARAOH KING OF ┼GYPT UNTO ALL THAT TRUST ON HIM.
2╦╔ 18:22 ┬UT IF YE SAY UNTO ME, ╫E TRUST IN THE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD: IS NOT THAT HE, WHOSE HIGH PLACES AND WHOSE ALTARS ╚EZEKIAH HATH TAKEN AWAY, AND HATH SAID TO ╩UDAH AND ╩ERUSALEM, ┘E SHALL WORSHIP BEFORE THIS ALTAR IN ╩ERUSALEM?
2╦╔ 18:23 ╬OW THEREFORE, ╔ PRAY THEE, GIVE PLEDGES TO MY LORD THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, AND ╔ WILL DELIVER THEE TWO THOUSAND HORSES, IF THOU BE ABLE ON THY PART TO SET RIDERS UPON THEM.
2╦╔ 18:24 ╚OW THEN WILT THOU TURN AWAY THE FACE OF ONE CAPTAIN OF THE LEAST OF MY MASTER'S SERVANTS, AND PUT THY TRUST ON ┼GYPT FOR CHARIOTS AND FOR HORSEMEN?
2╦╔ 18:25 ┴M ╔ NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE ╠╧╥─ AGAINST THIS PLACE TO DESTROY IT? ╘HE ╠╧╥─ SAID TO ME, ╟O UP AGAINST THIS LAND, AND DESTROY IT.
2╦╔ 18:26 ╘HEN SAID ┼LIAKIM THE SON OF ╚ILKIAH, AND ╙HEBNA, AND ╩OAH, UNTO ╥ABSHAKEH, ╙PEAK, ╔ PRAY THEE, TO THY SERVANTS IN THE ╙YRIAN LANGUAGE; FOR WE UNDERSTAND IT: AND TALK NOT WITH US IN THE ╩EWS' LANGUAGE IN THE EARS OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE WALL.
2╦╔ 18:27 ┬UT ╥ABSHAKEH SAID UNTO THEM, ╚ATH MY MASTER SENT ME TO THY MASTER, AND TO THEE, TO SPEAK THESE WORDS? HATH HE NOT SENT ME TO THE MEN WHICH SIT ON THE WALL, THAT THEY MAY EAT THEIR OWN DUNG, AND DRINK THEIR OWN PISS WITH YOU?
2╦╔ 18:28 ╘HEN ╥ABSHAKEH STOOD AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE IN THE ╩EWS' LANGUAGE, AND SPAKE, SAYING, ╚EAR THE WORD OF THE GREAT KING, THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA:
2╦╔ 18:29 ╘HUS SAITH THE KING, ╠ET NOT ╚EZEKIAH DECEIVE YOU: FOR HE SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO DELIVER YOU OUT OF HIS HAND:
2╦╔ 18:30 ╬EITHER LET ╚EZEKIAH MAKE YOU TRUST IN THE ╠╧╥─, SAYING, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ WILL SURELY DELIVER US, AND THIS CITY SHALL NOT BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA.
2╦╔ 18:31 ╚EARKEN NOT TO ╚EZEKIAH: FOR THUS SAITH THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, ═AKE AN AGREEMENT WITH ME BY A PRESENT, AND COME OUT TO ME, AND THEN EAT YE EVERY MAN OF HIS OWN VINE, AND EVERY ONE OF HIS FIG TREE, AND DRINK YE EVERY ONE THE WATERS OF HIS CISTERN:
2╦╔ 18:32 ╒NTIL ╔ COME AND TAKE YOU AWAY TO A LAND LIKE YOUR OWN LAND, A LAND OF CORN AND WINE, A LAND OF BREAD AND VINEYARDS, A LAND OF OIL OLIVE AND OF HONEY, THAT YE MAY LIVE, AND NOT DIE: AND HEARKEN NOT UNTO ╚EZEKIAH, WHEN HE PERSUADETH YOU, SAYING, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ WILL DELIVER US.
2╦╔ 18:33 ╚ATH ANY OF THE GODS OF THE NATIONS DELIVERED AT ALL HIS LAND OUT OF THE HAND OF THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA?
2╦╔ 18:34 ╫HERE ARE THE GODS OF ╚AMATH, AND OF ┴RPAD? WHERE ARE THE GODS OF ╙EPHARVAIM, ╚ENA, AND ╔VAH? HAVE THEY DELIVERED ╙AMARIA OUT OF MINE HAND?
2╦╔ 18:35 ╫HO ARE THEY AMONG ALL THE GODS OF THE COUNTRIES, THAT HAVE DELIVERED THEIR COUNTRY OUT OF MINE HAND, THAT THE ╠╧╥─ SHOULD DELIVER ╩ERUSALEM OUT OF MINE HAND?
2╦╔ 18:36 ┬UT THE PEOPLE HELD THEIR PEACE, AND ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD: FOR THE KING'S COMMANDMENT WAS, SAYING, ┴NSWER HIM NOT.
2╦╔ 18:37 ╘HEN CAME ┼LIAKIM THE SON OF ╚ILKIAH, WHICH WAS OVER THE HOUSEHOLD, AND ╙HEBNA THE SCRIBE, AND ╩OAH THE SON OF ┴SAPH THE RECORDER, TO ╚EZEKIAH WITH THEIR CLOTHES RENT, AND TOLD HIM THE WORDS OF ╥ABSHAKEH.
