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Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The
Daily Bible Reading Experience.
Day 200 and 38
then Aya Kim, son of Kyah, the palace
administrator, Shena, the court
secretary and Joa son of asap, the
royal historian, went back to Haah.
They tore their clothes in despair and
they went in to see the king and told him
what the Assyrian chief of staff had said.
When King Hezekiah heard their
report, he tore his clothes and put
on burlap and went into the temple
of the Lord and he sent a lie.
Kim, the palace administrator, Shena,
the court secretary and the leading
priests all dressed in burlap to
the prophet Isaiah, son of AMAs.
They told him, this is
what King Hezekiah says.
Today is a day of trouble,
insults, and disgrace.
It is like when a child is ready to be
born, but the mother has no strength to
deliver the baby, but perhaps the Lord
your God has heard the Assyrian chief of
staff sent by the king to defy the living
God and will punish him for his words.
Oh, pray for those of us who are
left after King has Zak's officials
delivered the king's message to Isaiah,
the prophet replied, say to your
master, this is what the Lord says.
Do not be disturbed by this
blasphemous speech against me from
the Assyrian King's messengers.
Listen, I myself will move against
him and the king will receive a
message that he is needed at home,
so he will return to his land where
I will have him killed with a sword.
Meanwhile, the Assyrian chief of
staff left Jerusalem and went to
consult the king of Assyria who had
left Lake ish and was attacking Lyna.
Soon afterward, king Sinna received
word that King Tarka of Ethiopia was
leading an army to fight against him.
Before leaving to meet the attack,
he sent messengers back to Hezekiah
in Jerusalem with this message.
This message is for
King Hezekiah of Judah.
Don't let your God in whom you
trust deceive you with promises
that Jerusalem will not be
captured by the king of Assyria.
You know perfectly well what the kings
of Assyria have done Wherever they have
gone, they have completely destroyed
everyone who stood in their way.
Why should you be any different?
Have the gods of other nations rescued
them such nations as Goan, Heron, Reif,
and the people of Eden who were Intel as
are my predecessors, destroyed them all.
What happened to the King of
Hamoth and the King of rpa?
What happened to the kings
of Sveum, henna and Eva?
After Hezekiah received the letter
from the messengers and read it, he
went up to the Lord's temple and spread
it out before the Lord and Hezekiah
prayed this prayer before the Lord.
Oh Lord God of Israel, you are
enthroned between the mighty cherubim.
You alone are God of all
the kingdoms of the earth.
You alone created the
heavens and the earth.
Bend down, oh Lord, and listen.
Open your eyes, oh Lord, and see.
Listen to senna's words of
defiance against the living God.
It is true, Lord, that the kings of
Assyria have destroyed all these nations
and they have thrown the gods of these
nations into the fire and burned them.
But of course, the Assyrians
could destroy them.
They were not Gods at all.
Only idols of wood and stone shaped
by human hands now, oh Lord, our
God rescue us from his power.
Then all the kingdoms of the
earth will know that you alone.
Oh Lord.
Our God.
Then Isaiah son of AMAs, sent
this message to Hezekiah.
This is what the Lord
the God of Israel says.
I have heard your prayer about
Sakib of Assyria, and the Lord
has spoken this word against him.
The virgin daughter of Zion
despises you and laughs at you.
The daughter of Jerusalem shakes
her head in derision as you flee.
Whom have you been defying
and ridiculing against?
Whom did you raise your voice at?
Whom did you look with such haughty eyes?
It was the holy one of Israel.
By your messengers, you
have defied the Lord.
You have said, with my many chariots,
I have conquered the highest mountains.
Yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon,
I have cut down its tallest
cedars and its finest Cyrus trees.
I have reached its farthest corners
and explored its deepest forests.
I have dug wells in many foreign
lands and refreshed myself with their
water, with the soul of my foot.
I stopped up all the rivers of
Egypt, but have you not heard?
I decided this long ago.
Long ago.
I planned it, and now
I am making it happen.
I planned for you to crush fortified
cities into heaps of rubble.
That is why their people have so little
power and are so frightened and confused.
They are as weak as grass, as easily
trampled as tender green shoots.
They're like grass sprouting on a housetop
scorched before it can grow lush and tall.
But I know you well where you stay and
when you come and go, I know the way you
have raged against me and because of your
raging against me and your arrogance.
Which I have heard for myself.
I will put my hook in your
nose and my bit in your mouth.
I will make you return by the
same road on which you came.
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, here
is the proof that what I say is true.
This year you will eat only what
grows up by itself and next year you
will eat what springs up from that.
But in the third year you will
plant crops and harvest them.
You will tend vineyards
and eat their fruit.
And you who are left in Judah, who
have escaped the ravages of the
siege, will put roots down in your own
soil and will grow up and flourish.
For a remnant of my people will
spread out from Jerusalem, a group
of survivors from Mount Zion.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of
Heaven's armies will make this happen.
And this is what the Lord says
about the king of Assyria.
His armies will not enter Jerusalem.
They will not even shoot an arrow at it.
They will not march outside its
gates with their shields, nor build
banks of earth against its walls.
The king will return to his own country
by the same road on which he came.
He will not enter this
city, says the Lord.
For my own honor and for the sake
of my servant David, I will defend
this city and protect it that night.
The angel of the Lord went out
to the Assyrian camp and killed
185,000 Assyrian soldiers.
When the surviving Assyrians
woke up the next morning,
they found corpses everywhere.
Then King Sinna of Assyria broke
camp and returned to his own land.
He went home to his capital
of Nineveh and stayed there.
One day while he was worshiping in the
temple of his God, ra his son's drek and
cherrier killed him with their swords.
They then escaped to the
land of Ara and another son.
Isar.
Hadden became the next king of Assyria.
This concludes today's
immerse reading experience.
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