WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.657 Day 200 and 38 00:00:05.052 --> 00:00:09.912 then Aya Kim, son of Kyah, the palace administrator, Shena, the court 00:00:09.912 --> 00:00:15.612 secretary and Joa son of asap, the royal historian, went back to Haah. 00:00:16.332 --> 00:00:20.922 They tore their clothes in despair and they went in to see the king and told him 00:00:20.922 --> 00:00:23.022 what the Assyrian chief of staff had said. 00:00:24.312 --> 00:00:28.482 When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put 00:00:28.482 --> 00:00:33.252 on burlap and went into the temple of the Lord and he sent a lie. 00:00:33.252 --> 00:00:37.332 Kim, the palace administrator, Shena, the court secretary and the leading 00:00:37.332 --> 00:00:42.822 priests all dressed in burlap to the prophet Isaiah, son of AMAs. 00:00:43.722 --> 00:00:46.812 They told him, this is what King Hezekiah says. 00:00:47.502 --> 00:00:50.562 Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. 00:00:51.342 --> 00:00:55.512 It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to 00:00:55.512 --> 00:00:59.982 deliver the baby, but perhaps the Lord your God has heard the Assyrian chief of 00:00:59.982 --> 00:01:05.472 staff sent by the king to defy the living God and will punish him for his words. 00:01:06.162 --> 00:01:11.442 Oh, pray for those of us who are left after King has Zak's officials 00:01:11.442 --> 00:01:16.452 delivered the king's message to Isaiah, the prophet replied, say to your 00:01:16.452 --> 00:01:19.002 master, this is what the Lord says. 00:01:19.647 --> 00:01:23.247 Do not be disturbed by this blasphemous speech against me from 00:01:23.247 --> 00:01:24.957 the Assyrian King's messengers. 00:01:25.737 --> 00:01:30.897 Listen, I myself will move against him and the king will receive a 00:01:30.897 --> 00:01:35.937 message that he is needed at home, so he will return to his land where 00:01:35.942 --> 00:01:37.797 I will have him killed with a sword. 00:01:39.237 --> 00:01:43.647 Meanwhile, the Assyrian chief of staff left Jerusalem and went to 00:01:43.647 --> 00:01:48.337 consult the king of Assyria who had left Lake ish and was attacking Lyna. 00:01:49.467 --> 00:01:55.407 Soon afterward, king Sinna received word that King Tarka of Ethiopia was 00:01:55.407 --> 00:01:57.357 leading an army to fight against him. 00:01:58.227 --> 00:02:02.307 Before leaving to meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah 00:02:02.337 --> 00:02:04.407 in Jerusalem with this message. 00:02:05.307 --> 00:02:07.707 This message is for King Hezekiah of Judah. 00:02:08.487 --> 00:02:12.897 Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you with promises 00:02:12.957 --> 00:02:15.897 that Jerusalem will not be captured by the king of Assyria. 00:02:16.632 --> 00:02:20.802 You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done Wherever they have 00:02:20.802 --> 00:02:25.122 gone, they have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way. 00:02:25.812 --> 00:02:27.222 Why should you be any different? 00:02:28.122 --> 00:02:33.882 Have the gods of other nations rescued them such nations as Goan, Heron, Reif, 00:02:34.692 --> 00:02:40.542 and the people of Eden who were Intel as are my predecessors, destroyed them all. 00:02:41.367 --> 00:02:44.607 What happened to the King of Hamoth and the King of rpa? 00:02:44.997 --> 00:02:48.537 What happened to the kings of Sveum, henna and Eva? 00:02:49.287 --> 00:02:53.067 After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he 00:02:53.072 --> 00:02:58.017 went up to the Lord's temple and spread it out before the Lord and Hezekiah 00:02:58.077 --> 00:03:00.327 prayed this prayer before the Lord. 00:03:01.317 --> 00:03:06.027 Oh Lord God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim. 00:03:06.627 --> 00:03:09.417 You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. 00:03:09.957 --> 00:03:12.447 You alone created the heavens and the earth. 00:03:13.527 --> 00:03:15.417 Bend down, oh Lord, and listen. 00:03:15.837 --> 00:03:18.057 Open your eyes, oh Lord, and see. 00:03:18.807 --> 00:03:22.617 Listen to senna's words of defiance against the living God. 00:03:23.517 --> 00:03:27.897 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations 00:03:28.347 --> 00:03:32.307 and they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. 00:03:33.237 --> 00:03:35.697 But of course, the Assyrians could destroy them. 00:03:36.327 --> 00:03:37.767 They were not Gods at all. 00:03:37.887 --> 00:03:44.277 Only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands now, oh Lord, our 00:03:44.277 --> 00:03:46.917 God rescue us from his power. 00:03:47.727 --> 00:03:51.657 Then all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone. 00:03:51.687 --> 00:03:52.557 Oh Lord. 00:03:52.932 --> 00:03:53.742 Our God. 00:03:55.542 --> 00:03:59.532 Then Isaiah son of AMAs, sent this message to Hezekiah. 00:04:00.552 --> 00:04:02.952 This is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:04:03.582 --> 00:04:07.692 I have heard your prayer about Sakib of Assyria, and the Lord 00:04:07.692 --> 00:04:09.732 has spoken this word against him. 00:04:10.662 --> 00:04:14.712 The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs at you. 00:04:15.162 --> 00:04:18.882 The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head in derision as you flee. 00:04:19.842 --> 00:04:23.052 Whom have you been defying and ridiculing against? 00:04:23.052 --> 00:04:25.482 Whom did you raise your voice at? 00:04:25.482 --> 00:04:27.582 Whom did you look with such haughty eyes? 00:04:28.452 --> 00:04:30.132 It was the holy one of Israel. 00:04:30.972 --> 00:04:33.462 By your messengers, you have defied the Lord. 00:04:33.912 --> 00:04:38.502 You have said, with my many chariots, I have conquered the highest mountains. 00:04:38.892 --> 00:04:42.822 Yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon, I have cut down its tallest 00:04:42.822 --> 00:04:45.102 cedars and its finest Cyrus trees. 00:04:45.717 --> 00:04:49.977 I have reached its farthest corners and explored its deepest forests. 00:04:50.457 --> 00:04:54.777 I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their 00:04:54.777 --> 00:04:57.447 water, with the soul of my foot. 00:04:57.597 --> 00:05:01.437 I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt, but have you not heard? 00:05:02.007 --> 00:05:03.837 I decided this long ago. 00:05:04.467 --> 00:05:05.187 Long ago. 00:05:05.187 --> 00:05:08.397 I planned it, and now I am making it happen. 00:05:08.967 --> 00:05:12.747 I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble. 00:05:13.452 --> 00:05:17.832 That is why their people have so little power and are so frightened and confused. 00:05:18.612 --> 00:05:23.202 They are as weak as grass, as easily trampled as tender green shoots. 00:05:23.802 --> 00:05:29.202 They're like grass sprouting on a housetop scorched before it can grow lush and tall. 00:05:30.312 --> 00:05:36.162 But I know you well where you stay and when you come and go, I know the way you 00:05:36.162 --> 00:05:41.232 have raged against me and because of your raging against me and your arrogance. 00:05:41.637 --> 00:05:43.197 Which I have heard for myself. 00:05:43.827 --> 00:05:47.637 I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. 00:05:48.207 --> 00:05:51.297 I will make you return by the same road on which you came. 00:05:52.797 --> 00:05:57.777 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, here is the proof that what I say is true. 00:05:58.737 --> 00:06:04.527 This year you will eat only what grows up by itself and next year you 00:06:04.527 --> 00:06:06.327 will eat what springs up from that. 00:06:07.047 --> 00:06:10.677 But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them. 00:06:11.067 --> 00:06:13.287 You will tend vineyards and eat their fruit. 00:06:13.797 --> 00:06:17.607 And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the 00:06:17.607 --> 00:06:22.917 siege, will put roots down in your own soil and will grow up and flourish. 00:06:23.757 --> 00:06:27.657 For a remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem, a group 00:06:27.657 --> 00:06:29.397 of survivors from Mount Zion. 00:06:30.117 --> 00:06:34.257 The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven's armies will make this happen. 00:06:34.977 --> 00:06:37.857 And this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria. 00:06:38.922 --> 00:06:40.992 His armies will not enter Jerusalem. 00:06:41.682 --> 00:06:43.842 They will not even shoot an arrow at it. 00:06:44.262 --> 00:06:48.192 They will not march outside its gates with their shields, nor build 00:06:48.192 --> 00:06:50.052 banks of earth against its walls. 00:06:50.712 --> 00:06:54.852 The king will return to his own country by the same road on which he came. 00:06:55.242 --> 00:06:58.362 He will not enter this city, says the Lord. 00:06:59.262 --> 00:07:03.942 For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David, I will defend 00:07:03.942 --> 00:07:07.482 this city and protect it that night. 00:07:07.872 --> 00:07:12.102 The angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 00:07:12.102 --> 00:07:15.492 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. 00:07:16.842 --> 00:07:19.722 When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, 00:07:20.382 --> 00:07:22.242 they found corpses everywhere. 00:07:23.502 --> 00:07:28.332 Then King Sinna of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. 00:07:28.902 --> 00:07:32.202 He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there. 00:07:33.372 --> 00:07:39.462 One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his God, ra his son's drek and 00:07:39.467 --> 00:07:41.892 cherrier killed him with their swords. 00:07:42.942 --> 00:07:46.842 They then escaped to the land of Ara and another son. 00:07:47.022 --> 00:07:47.472 Isar. 00:07:47.472 --> 00:07:50.052 Hadden became the next king of Assyria. 00:07:51.462 --> 00:07:54.312 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:07:54.432 --> 00:07:55.662 Thank you for joining us.