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Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.

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Day 200 and 39

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about that time, Hezekiah became
deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah,

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son of AMAs went to visit him.

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He gave the king this message.

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This is what the Lord says.

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Set your affairs in order
for you are going to die.

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You will not recover from this illness.

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When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his
face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.

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Remember, oh Lord, how I have
always been faithful to you and

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have served you single-mindedly,
always doing what pleases you.

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Then he broke down and wept bitterly.

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But before Isaiah had left the
middle courtyard, this message

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came to him from the Lord.

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Go back to Hezekiah,
the leader of my people.

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Tell him This is what the Lord the
God of your ancestor David says.

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I have heard your prayer
and seen your tears.

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I will heal you and three days
from now you will get out of bed

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and go to the temple of the Lord.

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I will add 15 years to your life
and I will rescue you and this

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city from the king of Assyria.

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I will defend this city for my own honor
and for the sake of my servant David.

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Then Isaiah said, make
an ointment from figs.

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So Hezekiah's servants spread
the ointment over the boil.

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And Hezekiah recovered.

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Meanwhile, Hezekiah had said to
Isaiah, what sign will the Lord give

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to prove that he will heal me and that
I will go to the temple of the Lord?

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Three days from now?

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Isaiah replied, this is the
sign from the Lord to prove

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that he will do as he promised.

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Would you like the shadow on the sundial
to go forward 10 steps or backward?

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10 steps.

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The shadow always moves forward.

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Hezekiah replied, so that would be easy.

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Make it go 10 steps backward instead.

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So Isaiah the prophet, asked the Lord to
do this, and he caused the shadow to move

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10 steps backward on the sundial of aas.

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Soon after this Medak ballad, son of
Maladin, king of Babylon, sent Hezekiah

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his best wishes and a gift for, he had
heard that Hezekiah had been very sick.

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Hezekiah received the Babylonian envoys
and showed them everything in his

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treasure houses, the silver, the gold,
the spices, and the aromatic oils.

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He also took them to see his
armory and showed them everything

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in his royal treasuries.

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There was nothing in his palace or
kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

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Then Isaiah the prophet, went
to King Hezekiah and asked

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him, what did those men want?

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Where were they from?

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Hezekiah replied, they came from
the distant land of Babylon.

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What did they see in your palace?

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Isaiah asked.

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They saw everything.

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Hezekiah replied.

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I showed them everything I
own, all my royal treasuries.

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Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, listen
to this message from the Lord.

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The time is coming when everything
in your palace, all the treasures

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stored up by your ancestors until
now will be carried off to Babylon.

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Nothing will be left, says the Lord.

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Some of your very own sons
will be taken away into exile.

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They will become eunuchs who will
serve in the palace of Babylon's King.

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Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, this
message you have given me from

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the Lord is good for the king was
thinking at least there will be peace

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and security during my lifetime.

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The rest of the events in Hezekiah's
Reign, including the extent of his

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power and how he built a pool and
dug a tunnel to bring water into

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the city are recorded in the book of
the history of the Kings of Judah.

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Hezekiah died and his son
Manasses, became the next king.

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Manasses was 12 years old
when he became King, and he

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reigned in Jerusalem 55 years.

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His mother was hesbah.

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He did what was evil in the Lord's sight
following the detestable practices of the

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pagan nations that the Lord had driven
from the land ahead of the Israelites.

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He rebuilt the pagan shrines his
father Hezekiah had destroyed.

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He constructed altars for Baal
and set up an Ashra poll just

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as King Ahab of Israel had done.

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He also bowed before all the powers
of the heavens and worshiped them.

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He built pagan altars in
the temple of the Lord.

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The place where the Lord had said My
name will remain in Jerusalem forever.

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He built these altars for all
the powers of the heavens in both

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courtyards of the Lord's temple.

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Manasses also sacrificed
his own son in the fire.

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He practiced sorcery and divination, and
he consulted with mediums and psychics.

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He did much that was
evil in the Lord's sight.

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Arousing his anger.

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Vanessa even made a carved image of
a Shira and set it up in the temple,

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the very place where the Lord had
told David and his son Solomon.

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My name will be honored forever
in this temple and in Jerusalem,

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the city I have chosen from
among all the tribes of Israel.

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If the Israelites will be careful
to obey my commands, all the

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laws my servant Moses gave them.

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I will not send them into exile from this
land that I gave their ancestors, but the

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people refused to listen and Manasa led
them to do even more evil than the pagan

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nations that the Lord had destroyed when
the people of Israel entered the land.

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Then the Lord said through his servants,
the prophets, King Manasses of Judah

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has done many detestable things.

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He is even more wicked than the Amorites
who lived in this land before Israel.

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He has caused the people of
Judah to sin with his idols.

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So this is what the Lord,
the God of Israel says.

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I will bring such disaster on Jerusalem
and Judah that the ears of those who

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hear about it will tingle with horror.

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I will judge Jerusalem by the same
standard I used for Samaria and the same

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measure I used for the family of Ahab.

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I will wipe away the people
of Jerusalem as one wipes a

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dish and turns it upside down.

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Then I will reject even the remnant of
my own people who are left and I will

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hand them over as plunder for their
enemies for they have done great evil

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in my sight and have angered me ever
since their ancestors came out of Egypt.

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Manasa also murdered many innocent people
until Jerusalem was filled from one

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end to the other with innocent blood.

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This was in addition to the sin
that he caused the people of

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Judah to commit, leading them
to do evil in the Lord's sight.

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The rest of the events in Manasses Reign
and everything he did, including the sins

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he committed, are recorded in the book
of the history of the Kings of Judah.

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When Manasses died, he was buried in
the Palace Garden, the garden of Za.

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Then his son, Amon, became the next king.

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Amon was 22 years old when he became King,
and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

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His mother was Miss Shomi, the
daughter of, he's from Japa.

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He did what was evil in the Lord's sight
just as his father Manasa had done.

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He followed the example of
his father worshiping the same

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idols his father had worshiped.

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He abandoned the Lord, the God
of his ancestors, and he refused

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to follow the Lord's ways.

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Then Amman's own officials conspired
against him and assassinated him

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in his palace, but the people of
the land killed all those who had

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conspired against King Amon, and they
made his son Josiah, the next king.

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The rest of the events in Amman's Reign
and what he did are recorded in the book

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of the history of the Kings of Judah.

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He was buried in his tomb
in the garden of Aza.

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Then his son Josiah, became the next king.

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This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.

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Thank you for joining us.