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2 Kings 19:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You let your officials insult me, the Lord. And here is what you have said about yourself, “I led my chariots to the highest heights of Lebanon's mountains. I went deep into its forest, cutting down the best cedar and cypress trees.

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The king of Assyria ordered his three highest military officers to leave Lachish and take a large army to Jerusalem. When they arrived, the officers stood on the road near the cloth makers' shops along the canal from the upper pool.

The king of Assyria wants to make a bet with you people. He will give you two thousand horses, if you have enough troops to ride them.

Please pray for those of us who are left alive. The king of Assyria sent his army commander to insult the living God. Perhaps the LORD heard what he said and will do something, if you will pray.

He also built defence towers out in the desert. He owned such a large herd of livestock in the western foothills and in the flat lands, that he had cisterns dug there to catch the rainwater. He loved farming, so he had crops and vineyards planted in the hill country wherever there was fertile soil, and he hired farmers to take care of them.

Sennacherib's letter even made fun of the LORD. It said, “The gods of other nations could not save their people from Assyria's army, and neither will the God that Hezekiah worships.”

Some people trust the power of chariots or horses, but we trust you, LORD God.

Others will stumble and fall, but we will be strong and stand firm.

who says: I did these things by my own power because I am clever and wise. I attacked kings like a wild bull, and I took the land and the treasures of their nations.

I have conquered the whole world! And it was easier than taking eggs from an unguarded nest. No one even flapped a wing or made a cheep.

The Lord will make your beautiful forests and fertile fields slowly rot.

It humiliated heaven's army and dishonoured its leader by keeping him from offering the daily sacrifices. In fact, it was so terrible that it even disgraced the temple and wiped out true worship. It also did everything else it wanted to do.




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