Isaiah - Time of Isaiah

When King Hezekiah Heard It - that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into The House Of God.

He Sent Eliakim - that was over the Household and Shebna the scribe and elders of the Priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah the Prophet son of Amoz.

They Said To Him - Thus saith Hezekiah 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.

It May Be Thy God - will hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the King of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach The Living God and will reprove The Words that God hath heard wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

Isaiah Said To Them - Thus Shall Ye Say to your master Thus Saith God Be not afraid of The Words that thou hast heard with that the servants of the King of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Behold I Will Send A Blast Upon Him - he shall hear a rumour and shall return to his own land and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
So Rabshakeh Returned - and found the King of Assyria warring against Libnah for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

When He Heard Say - of Tirhakah King of Ethiopia Behold he is come out to fight against thee he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying

Thus Shall Ye Speak To Hezekiah King Of Judah Saying - Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee saying Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the King of Assyria.

Behold Thou Hast Heard - what the Kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly and shalt thou be delivered ?

Have The gods Of The Nations Delivered Them - that My Fathers have destroyed as Gozan Haran and Rezeph and The Children of Eden that were in Thelasar?

Where Is The King Of Hamath - and the King of Arpad and the King of the city of Sepharvaim of Hena and Ivah?

Hezekiah Received The Letter - of the hand of the messengers and read it and Hezekiah went up into The House Of God and spread it before God.

Hezekiah Prayed Before God - and said O God Of Hebrews that dwellest between the Cherubims Thou Art God even thou alone of all The Kingdoms Of The Earth Thou Hast made Heaven and Earth.

God Bow Down Thine Ear - and hear open God thine eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib that hath sent him to reproach The Living God.

Of A Truth God - the Kings of Assyria have destroyed the Nations and their lands. Have cast their gods into the fire for they were no gods but the work of men's hands wood and stone therefore they have destroyed them.

Now Therefore O God - I beseech thee save thou us out of his hand that all The Kingdoms Of The Earth may know that thou art God even thou only.

Then Isaiah The Son Of Amoz - sent to Hezekiah saying Thus saith God Of Hebrews that thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib King of Assyria I have heard.

This Is The Word That God - hath spoken concerning him The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Whom Hast Thou Reproached - and blasphemed Against ?

Whom Hast Thou Exalted - thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high ?

Even Against - The Holy One Of Hebrews.

By Thy Messengers Thou Hast - Reproached God and hast said

With The Multitude Of My Chariots - I am come up to the height of The Mountains to the sides of Lebanon and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof and the choice fir trees thereof I will enter into the lodgings of His Borders and into the forest of His Carmel. I have digged and drunk strange waters and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

Hast Thou Not Heard Long Ago - how I have done it and of Ancient Times that I have formed it ?

Now Have I Brought It To Pass - that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb as the grass on the house tops and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

I Know Thy Abode - and Thy going out and Thy coming in and Thy rage against me.

Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears therefore I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips and I will turn thee back by the way by that thou camest.

This Shall Be A Sign To Thee - Ye Shall Eat This Year such things as grow of themselves and in the second year that springeth of the same in the third year sow ye and reap plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof.

The Remnant That Is Escaped - of The House Of Judah shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

For Out Of Jerusalem - shall go forth a remnant and they that escape out of Mount Zion the zeal of God of hosts shall do this.

Therefore Thus Saith God - concerning the King of Assyria.

He Shall Not Come Into This City - nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shield nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came by the same shall he return and shall not come into this City saith God.

For I Will Defend This City - to save it for mine own sake and for my servant David's sake.

That Night That The Angel Of God - went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand when they arose early in the morning behold they were all dead corpses.

So Sennacherib King Of Assyria Departed - and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.

As He Was Worshipping - in the house of Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword they escaped into the land of Armenia. Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

In Those Days Was Hezekiah - sick to death. The prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him Thus saith God Set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live.

Then He Turned His Face - to the wall and prayed to God saying I beseech thee O God remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that is good in thy sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
Afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court that the word of God came to him saying Turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people

Thus Saith God Of David - Thy Father I have heard Thy Prayer I have seen thy tears Behold I Will Heal Thee on the third day Thou Shalt Go up to The House Of God.

I Will Add To Thy Days Fifteen Years - I will deliver thee and this City out of the hand of the King of Assyria and I will defend this city for mine own sake and for my servant David's sake.

Isaiah Said - Take a lump of figs. They took and laid it on the boil and he recovered.

Hezekiah Said To Isaiah - What shall be the sign that God will heal me and that I shall go up into The House Of God the third day ?

Isaiah Said This Sign - Shalt Thou have of God

That God Will Do The Thing - that He Hath Spoken Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or go back ten degrees?

Hezekiah Answered - It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees nay but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

Isaiah The Prophet Cried To God - He brought the shadow ten degrees backward by that it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

At That Time Berodachbaladan - son of Baladan King of Babylon sent letters and a present to Hezekiah for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Hezekiah Hearkened To Them - and shewed them all The House Of His Precious Things silver and gold the spices the precious ointment and all The House Of His Armour.

All That Was Found - in His Treasures there was nothing in His House nor in all His Dominion that Hezekiah shewed them not.

Then Came Isaiah The Prophet - to King Hezekiah and said to him What said these men ? From whence came they to thee ?

Hezekiah Said - they are come from a far country even from Babylon.

He Said - What have they seen in Thine House ?

Hezekiah Answered - All the things that are in mine House have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

Isaiah Said To Hezekiah - Hear The Word Of God.

Behold The Days Come - that all that is in thine House and that Thy Fathers have laid up in store to this day shall be carried into Babylon nothing shall be left saith God.

Of Thy Sons That Shall - issue from Thee that thou shalt beget shall they take away they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the King of Babylon.

Then Said Hezekiah To Isaiah - Good is The Word Of God that thou hast spoken. He said Is it not good if peace and truth be in my days ?

After These Things - and the establishment there of Sennacherib King of Assyria came and entered into Judah and encamped against the fenced cities and thought to win them for himself.

When Hezekiah Saw That Sennacherib - was come that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem. He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains that were without the city and they did help him.

So There Was Gathered Much People Together - who stopped all The Fountains and The Brook that ran through the midst of The Land saying Why should the Kings of Assyria come and find much water?

Also 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 Millo in the city of David and made darts and shields in abundance.

He Set Captains Of War - over the people gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city and spake comfortably to them saying Be strong and courageous be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria nor for all the multitude that is with him for there be more with us than with him.

With Him Is An Arm Of Flesh - with us is God our God to help us and to fight our battles.

The People rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah King of Judah.

After This Did Sennacherib King Of Assyria - send his servants to Jerusalem but he himself laid siege against Lachish and all his power with him) to Hezekiah King of Judah and to all Judah that were at Jerusalem saying Thus saith Sennacherib King of Assyria Whereon do ye trust that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem ?

Doth Not Hezekiah Persuade You - to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst saying God our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the King of Assyria ?

Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem saying Ye shall worship before one altar and burn incense upon it?

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to 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?

Who 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 God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand ?

Now therefore let not Hezekiah 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 God deliver you out of mine hand ?

His servants spake yet more against God and against his servant Hezekiah.
He wrote also letters to rail on God of Israel and to speak against him saying

As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.

Then They Cried With A Loud Voice - in the speech to the People of Jerusalem that were on the wall to affright them and to trouble them that they might take the city.

They Spake Against God Of Jerusalem - as against the gods of the People of The Earth. That were the work of the hands of man.

For This Cause - Hezekiah the King and the Prophet Isaiah son of Amoz Prayed and cried to Heaven.

God Sent An Angel - that cut off all the mighty men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the King of Assyria.

So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he was come into the house of his god they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

Thus God Saved Hezekiah - and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the King of Assyria and from the hand of all other and guided them on every side.

Many Brought Gifts To God - to Jerusalem and presents to Hezekiah King of Judah so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death and prayed to God and he spake to him and he gave him a sign.

Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that the wrath of God came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Hezekiah 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.

Storehouses also for the increase of corn and wine and oil and stalls for all manner of beasts and cotes for flocks.

Moreover He Provided Him - cities and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance for God had given him substance very much.

This Same Hezekiah Also Stopped - the upper watercourse of Gihon and brought it straight down to the west side of The City Of David.

Hezekiah Prospered - in all His Works.

The Rest Of The Acts Of Hezekiah - and all his might how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water into The City.

Are They Not Written In - The Book Of The Chronicles Of The Kings Of Judah ?

Howbeit In The Business Of - the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon who sent to him to enquire 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.

Now The Rest Of The Acts Of Hezekiah - and his goodness

Then All The People Of Judah - took Uzziah who was sixteen years old and made him King in the room of his father Amaziah. He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after that the King slept with his fathers.

Sixteen Years Old Was Uzziah - when he began to reign and he reigned fifty two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
He Did That Was Right - in the sight of God according to all that his father Amaziah did.
He Sought God In The Days Of Zechariah - who had understanding in the visions of God and as long as he sought God made him to prosper.

He Went Forth and Warred Against The Philistines - brake down the wall of Gath the wall of Jabneh the wall of Ashdod and built cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines.

God Helped Him Against - the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal and the Mehunims.

The Ammonites Gave Gifts To Uzziah - his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

Moreover Uzziah Built Towers In Jerusalem - at the corner gate at the valley gate and at the turning of the wall and fortified them.

Also He Built Towers In The Desert - digged many wells for he had much cattle both in the low country and in the plains husband men also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel for he loved husbandry.

Moreover Uzziah - had an host of fighting men that went out to war by bands according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler under the hand of Hananiah one of the King's captains.

The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand six hundred. Under their hand was an army three hundred thousand seven thousand five hundred that made war with mighty power to help the King against the enemy.

Uzziah Prepared For Them Throughout All The Host - shields and spears and helmets and habergeons and bows and slings to cast stones.

He Made In Jerusalem Engines - invented by cunning Men.

To Be On The Towers - and upon the bulwarks to shoot arrows and great stones withal. His name spread far abroad for he was marvellously helped till he was strong.

When he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction for he transgressed against God his God and went into The Temple Of God to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Azariah The Priest - went in after him and with him fourscore Priests Of God that were valiant men.

They Withstood Uzziah The King - and said to him It appertaineth not to thee Uzziah to burn incense to God.

To The Priests - the sons of Aaron that are consecrated to burn incense go out of The Sanctuary.

For Thou Hast Trespassed - neither shall it be for thine honour from God.

Then Uzziah Was Wroth - and had a censer in his hand to burn incense and while he was wroth with the priests the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in The House Of God from beside the incense altar.

Azariah The Chief Priest - and all The Priests looked upon him and behold he was leprous in his forehead and they thrust him out from thence yea himself hasted also to go out because God had smitten him.

Uzziah The King Was A Leper - to the day of his death and dwelt in a several House being a leper for he was cut off from The House Of God and

Jotham His Son Was - over The King's House judging The People of The Land.

Now The Rest Of The Acts Of Uzziah - first and last did Isaiah The Prophet the son of Amoz write.

So Uzziah Slept - with his fathers they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial that belonged to The Kings for they said He is a leper and

Jotham His Son - reigned in his stead.

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