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Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 200 and 39
about that time, Hezekiah became
deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah,
son of AMAs went to visit him.
He gave the king this message.
This is what the Lord says.
Set your affairs in order
for you are going to die.
You will not recover from this illness.
When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his
face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.
Remember, oh Lord, how I have
always been faithful to you and
have served you single-mindedly,
always doing what pleases you.
Then he broke down and wept bitterly.
But before Isaiah had left the
middle courtyard, this message
came to him from the Lord.
Go back to Hezekiah,
the leader of my people.
Tell him This is what the Lord the
God of your ancestor David says.
I have heard your prayer
and seen your tears.
I will heal you and three days
from now you will get out of bed
and go to the temple of the Lord.
I will add 15 years to your life
and I will rescue you and this
city from the king of Assyria.
I will defend this city for my own honor
and for the sake of my servant David.
Then Isaiah said, make
an ointment from figs.
So Hezekiah's servants spread
the ointment over the boil.
And Hezekiah recovered.
Meanwhile, Hezekiah had said to
Isaiah, what sign will the Lord give
to prove that he will heal me and that
I will go to the temple of the Lord?
Three days from now?
Isaiah replied, this is the
sign from the Lord to prove
that he will do as he promised.
Would you like the shadow on the sundial
to go forward 10 steps or backward?
10 steps.
The shadow always moves forward.
Hezekiah replied, so that would be easy.
Make it go 10 steps backward instead.
So Isaiah the prophet, asked the Lord to
do this, and he caused the shadow to move
10 steps backward on the sundial of aas.
Soon after this Medak ballad, son of
Maladin, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah
his best wishes and a gift for, he had
heard that Hezekiah had been very sick.
Hezekiah received the Babylonian envoys
and showed them everything in his
treasure houses, the silver, the gold,
the spices, and the aromatic oils.
He also took them to see his
armory and showed them everything
in his royal treasuries.
There was nothing in his palace or
kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.
Then Isaiah the prophet, went
to King Hezekiah and asked
him, what did those men want?
Where were they from?
Hezekiah replied, they came from
the distant land of Babylon.
What did they see in your palace?
Isaiah asked.
They saw everything.
Hezekiah replied.
I showed them everything I
own, all my royal treasuries.
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, listen
to this message from the Lord.
The time is coming when everything
in your palace, all the treasures
stored up by your ancestors until
now will be carried off to Babylon.
Nothing will be left, says the Lord.
Some of your very own sons
will be taken away into exile.
They will become eunuchs who will
serve in the palace of Babylon's King.
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, this
message you have given me from
the Lord is good for the king was
thinking at least there will be peace
and security during my lifetime.
The rest of the events in Hezekiah's
Reign, including the extent of his
power and how he built a pool and
dug a tunnel to bring water into
the city are recorded in the book of
the history of the Kings of Judah.
Hezekiah died and his son
Manasses, became the next king.
Manasses was 12 years old
when he became King, and he
reigned in Jerusalem 55 years.
His mother was hesbah.
He did what was evil in the Lord's sight
following the detestable practices of the
pagan nations that the Lord had driven
from the land ahead of the Israelites.
He rebuilt the pagan shrines his
father Hezekiah had destroyed.
He constructed altars for Baal
and set up an Ashra poll just
as King Ahab of Israel had done.
He also bowed before all the powers
of the heavens and worshiped them.
He built pagan altars in
the temple of the Lord.
The place where the Lord had said My
name will remain in Jerusalem forever.
He built these altars for all
the powers of the heavens in both
courtyards of the Lord's temple.
Manasses also sacrificed
his own son in the fire.
He practiced sorcery and divination, and
he consulted with mediums and psychics.
He did much that was
evil in the Lord's sight.
Arousing his anger.
Vanessa even made a carved image of
a Shira and set it up in the temple,
the very place where the Lord had
told David and his son Solomon.
My name will be honored forever
in this temple and in Jerusalem,
the city I have chosen from
among all the tribes of Israel.
If the Israelites will be careful
to obey my commands, all the
laws my servant Moses gave them.
I will not send them into exile from this
land that I gave their ancestors, but the
people refused to listen and Manasa led
them to do even more evil than the pagan
nations that the Lord had destroyed when
the people of Israel entered the land.
Then the Lord said through his servants,
the prophets, King Manasses of Judah
has done many detestable things.
He is even more wicked than the Amorites
who lived in this land before Israel.
He has caused the people of
Judah to sin with his idols.
So this is what the Lord,
the God of Israel says.
I will bring such disaster on Jerusalem
and Judah that the ears of those who
hear about it will tingle with horror.
I will judge Jerusalem by the same
standard I used for Samaria and the same
measure I used for the family of Ahab.
I will wipe away the people
of Jerusalem as one wipes a
dish and turns it upside down.
Then I will reject even the remnant of
my own people who are left and I will
hand them over as plunder for their
enemies for they have done great evil
in my sight and have angered me ever
since their ancestors came out of Egypt.
Manasa also murdered many innocent people
until Jerusalem was filled from one
end to the other with innocent blood.
This was in addition to the sin
that he caused the people of
Judah to commit, leading them
to do evil in the Lord's sight.
The rest of the events in Manasses Reign
and everything he did, including the sins
he committed, are recorded in the book
of the history of the Kings of Judah.
When Manasses died, he was buried in
the Palace Garden, the garden of Za.
Then his son, Amon, became the next king.
Amon was 22 years old when he became King,
and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.
His mother was Miss Shomi, the
daughter of, he's from Japa.
He did what was evil in the Lord's sight
just as his father Manasa had done.
He followed the example of
his father worshiping the same
idols his father had worshiped.
He abandoned the Lord, the God
of his ancestors, and he refused
to follow the Lord's ways.
Then Amman's own officials conspired
against him and assassinated him
in his palace, but the people of
the land killed all those who had
conspired against King Amon, and they
made his son Josiah, the next king.
The rest of the events in Amman's Reign
and what he did are recorded in the book
of the history of the Kings of Judah.
He was buried in his tomb
in the garden of Aza.
Then his son Josiah, became the next king.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
Thank you for joining us.