2├╚ 32:1 ┴FTER THESE THINGS, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT THEREOF, ╙ENNACHERIB KING OF ┴SSYRIA CAME, AND ENTERED INTO ╩UDAH, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THE FENCED CITIES, AND THOUGHT TO WIN THEM FOR HIMSELF.
2├╚ 32:2 ┴ND WHEN ╚EZEKIAH SAW THAT ╙ENNACHERIB WAS COME, AND THAT HE WAS PURPOSED TO FIGHT AGAINST ╩ERUSALEM,
2├╚ 32:3 ╚E TOOK COUNSEL WITH HIS PRINCES AND HIS MIGHTY MEN TO STOP THE WATERS OF THE FOUNTAINS WHICH WERE WITHOUT THE CITY: AND THEY DID HELP HIM.
2├╚ 32:4 ╙O THERE WAS GATHERED MUCH PEOPLE TOGETHER, WHO STOPPED ALL THE FOUNTAINS, AND THE BROOK THAT RAN THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE LAND, SAYING, ╫HY SHOULD THE KINGS OF ┴SSYRIA COME, AND FIND MUCH WATER?
2├╚ 32:5 ┴LSO HE STRENGTHENED HIMSELF, AND BUILT UP ALL THE WALL THAT WAS BROKEN, AND RAISED IT UP TO THE TOWERS, AND ANOTHER WALL WITHOUT, AND REPAIRED ═ILLO IN THE CITY OF ─AVID, AND MADE DARTS AND SHIELDS IN ABUNDANCE.
2├╚ 32:6 ┴ND HE SET CAPTAINS OF WAR OVER THE PEOPLE, AND GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO HIM IN THE STREET OF THE GATE OF THE CITY, AND SPAKE COMFORTABLY TO THEM, SAYING,
2├╚ 32:7 ┬E STRONG AND COURAGEOUS, BE NOT AFRAID NOR DISMAYED FOR THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, NOR FOR ALL THE MULTITUDE THAT IS WITH HIM: FOR THERE BE MORE WITH US THAN WITH HIM:
2├╚ 32:8 ╫ITH HIM IS AN ARM OF FLESH; BUT WITH US IS THE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD TO HELP US, AND TO FIGHT OUR BATTLES. ┴ND THE PEOPLE RESTED THEMSELVES UPON THE WORDS OF ╚EZEKIAH KING OF ╩UDAH.
2├╚ 32:9 ┴FTER THIS DID ╙ENNACHERIB KING OF ┴SSYRIA SEND HIS SERVANTS TO ╩ERUSALEM, (BUT HE HIMSELF LAID SIEGE AGAINST ╠ACHISH, AND ALL HIS POWER WITH HIM,) UNTO ╚EZEKIAH KING OF ╩UDAH, AND UNTO ALL ╩UDAH THAT WERE AT ╩ERUSALEM, SAYING,
2├╚ 32:10 ╘HUS SAITH ╙ENNACHERIB KING OF ┴SSYRIA, ╫HEREON DO YE TRUST, THAT YE ABIDE IN THE SIEGE IN ╩ERUSALEM?
2├╚ 32:11 ─OTH NOT ╚EZEKIAH PERSUADE YOU TO GIVE OVER YOURSELVES TO DIE BY FAMINE AND BY THIRST, SAYING, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ OUR ╟OD SHALL DELIVER US OUT OF THE HAND OF THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA?
2├╚ 32:12 ╚ATH NOT THE SAME ╚EZEKIAH TAKEN AWAY HIS HIGH PLACES AND HIS ALTARS, AND COMMANDED ╩UDAH AND ╩ERUSALEM, SAYING, ┘E SHALL WORSHIP BEFORE ONE ALTAR, AND BURN INCENSE UPON IT?
2├╚ 32:13 ╦NOW YE NOT WHAT ╔ 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?
2├╚ 32:14 ╫HO 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 ╟OD SHOULD BE ABLE TO DELIVER YOU OUT OF MINE HAND?
2├╚ 32:15 ╬OW THEREFORE LET NOT ╚EZEKIAH 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 ╟OD DELIVER YOU OUT OF MINE HAND?
2├╚ 32:16 ┴ND HIS SERVANTS SPAKE YET MORE AGAINST THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD, AND AGAINST HIS SERVANT ╚EZEKIAH.
2├╚ 32:17 ╚E WROTE ALSO LETTERS TO RAIL ON THE ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, AND TO SPEAK AGAINST HIM, SAYING, ┴S THE GODS OF THE NATIONS OF OTHER LANDS HAVE NOT DELIVERED THEIR PEOPLE OUT OF MINE HAND, SO SHALL NOT THE ╟OD OF ╚EZEKIAH DELIVER HIS PEOPLE OUT OF MINE HAND.
2├╚ 32:18 ╘HEN THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE IN THE ╩EWS' SPEECH UNTO THE PEOPLE OF ╩ERUSALEM THAT WERE ON THE WALL, TO AFFRIGHT THEM, AND TO TROUBLE THEM; THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE THE CITY.
2├╚ 32:19 ┴ND THEY SPAKE AGAINST THE ╟OD OF ╩ERUSALEM, AS AGAINST THE GODS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, WHICH WERE THE WORK OF THE HANDS OF MAN.
2├╚ 32:20 ┴ND FOR THIS CAUSE ╚EZEKIAH THE KING, AND THE PROPHET ╔SAIAH THE SON OF ┴MOZ, PRAYED AND CRIED TO HEAVEN.
2├╚ 32:21 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SENT AN ANGEL, WHICH CUT OFF ALL THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR, AND THE LEADERS AND CAPTAINS IN THE CAMP OF THE K NG OF ┴SSYRIA. ╙O HE RETURNED WITH SHAME OF FACE TO HIS OWN LAND. ┴ND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE HOUSE OF HIS GOD, THEY THAT CAME FORTH OF HIS OWN BOWELS SLEW HIM THERE WITH THE SWORD.
2├╚ 32:22 ╘HUS THE ╠╧╥─ SAVED ╚EZEKIAH AND THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ERUSALEM FROM THE HAND OF ╙ENNACHERIB THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, AND FROM THE HAND OF ALL OTHER, AND GUIDED THEM ON EVERY SIDE.
2├╚ 32:23 ┴ND MANY BROUGHT GIFTS UNTO THE ╠╧╥─ TO ╩ERUSALEM, AND PRESENTS TO ╚EZEKIAH KING OF ╩UDAH: SO THAT HE WAS MAGNIFIED IN THE SIGHT OF ALL NATIONS FROM THENCEFORTH.
2├╚ 32:24 ╔N THOSE DAYS ╚EZEKIAH WAS SICK TO THE DEATH, AND PRAYED UNTO THE ╠╧╥─: AND HE SPAKE UNTO HIM, AND HE GAVE HIM A SIGN.
2├╚ 32:25 ┬UT ╚EZEKIAH RENDERED NOT AGAIN ACCORDING TO THE BENEFIT DONE UNTO HIM; FOR HIS HEART WAS LIFTED UP: THEREFORE THERE WAS WRATH UPON HIM, AND UPON ╩UDAH AND ╩ERUSALEM.
2├╚ 32:26 ╬OTWITHSTANDING ╚EZEKIAH HUMBLED HIMSELF FOR THE PRIDE OF HIS HEART, BOTH HE AND THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ERUSALEM, SO THAT THE WRATH OF THE ╠╧╥─ CAME NOT UPON THEM IN THE DAYS OF ╚EZEKIAH.
2├╚ 32:27 ┴ND ╚EZEKIAH HAD EXCEEDING MUCH RICHES AND HONOUR: AND HE MADE HIMSELF TREASURIES FOR SILVER, AND FOR GOLD, AND FOR PRECIOUS STONES, AND FOR SPICES, AND FOR SHIELDS, AND FOR ALL MANNER OF PLEASANT JEWELS;
2├╚ 32:28 ╙TOREHOUSES ALSO FOR THE INCREASE OF CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL; AND STALLS FOR ALL MANNER OF BEASTS, AND COTES FOR FLOCKS.
2├╚ 32:29 ═OREOVER HE PROVIDED HIM CITIES, AND POSSESSIONS OF FLOCKS AND HERDS IN ABUNDANCE: FOR ╟OD HAD GIVEN HIM SUBSTANCE VERY MUCH.
2├╚ 32:30 ╘HIS SAME ╚EZEKIAH ALSO STOPPED THE UPPER WATERCOURSE OF ╟IHON, AND BROUGHT IT STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE CITY OF ─AVID. ┴ND ╚EZEKIAH PROSPERED IN ALL HIS WORKS.
2├╚ 32:31 ╚OWBEIT IN THE BUSINESS OF THE AMBASSADORS OF THE PRINCES OF ┬ABYLON, WHO SENT UNTO HIM TO ENQUIRE OF THE WONDER THAT WAS DONE IN THE LAND, ╟OD LEFT HIM, TO TRY HIM, THAT HE MIGHT KNOW ALL THAT WAS IN HIS HEART.
2├╚ 32:32 ╬OW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF ╚EZEKIAH, AND HIS GOODNESS, BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE VISION OF ╔SAIAH THE PROPHET, THE SON OF ┴MOZ, AND IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ╩UDAH AND ╔SRAEL.
2├╚ 32:33 ┴ND ╚EZEKIAH SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE CHIEFEST OF THE SEPULCHRES OF THE SONS OF ─AVID: AND ALL ╩UDAH AND THE INHABITANTS OF ╩ERUSALEM DID HIM HONOUR AT HIS DEATH. ┴ND ═ANASSEH HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD.
