Don t listen to Hezekiah. Don t listen to his lies, telling you GOD will save us. 2 Kings 18:32b (MSG)

Israel (10 Northern tribes) Saul David Solomon Judah (2 Southern tribes)

Kings of Israel (Northern Kingdom) Jeroboam I Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Tibni Omri Ahab Ahaziah Joram Jehu Jehoahaz Joash Jeroboam II Zechariah Shallum Menahem Pekahiah Pekah Hoshea Kings of Judah (Southern Kingdom) Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram Ahaziah Athaliah Joash Amaziah Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon Josiah Jehoahaz Jehoiakim Jehoiachin Zedekiah

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his 3 God, as his father David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the 4 people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. 2 Kings 16:2-4 (ESV)

In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to 2 reign. He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done. 2 Kings 18:1-3 (ESV)

He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it 5 was called Nehushtan). He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him. 2 Kings 18:4-5 (ESV)

Hezekiah s Accomplishments Reopened the Temple In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. 2 Chronicles 29:3 (ESV)

Hezekiah s Accomplishments Reopened the Temple Restored Temple Worship Then Hezekiah said, You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the Lord. And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings. 2 Chronicles 29:31 (ESV)

Hezekiah s Accomplishments Reopened the Temple Restored Temple Worship Observed Passover Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. 2 Chronicles 30:1 (ESV)

Hezekiah s Accomplishments Reopened the Temple Restored Temple Worship Observed Passover Returned the Joy of the Lord to Jerusalem So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 30:26 (ESV)

Israel Saul David Solomon Judah X Assyrian Captivity 722 BC

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities 14 of Judah and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear. And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 2 Kings 18:13-14 (ESV)

At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria. 2 Kings 18:16 (ESV)

And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come 3 and intended to fight against Jerusalem, he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they 4 helped him. A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water? 2 Chronicles 32:2-4 (ESV)

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And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, 7 saying, Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than 8 with him. With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles. And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. 2 Chronicles 32:6-8 (ESV)

After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying, 10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem? 2 Chronicles 32:9-10 (ESV)

Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, The Lord our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria? 2 Chronicles 32:11 (ESV)

Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand! 2 Chronicles 32:15 (ESV)

Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven. 2 Chronicles 32:20 (ESV)

And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: O Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the 16 earth; you have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 2 Kings 19:15-16 (ESV)

Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste 18 the nations and their lands and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were 19 destroyed. So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone. 2 Kings 19:17-19 (ESV)

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 2 Kings 19:20 (ESV)

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up 33 a siege mound against it. By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come 34 into this city, declares the Lord. For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David. 2 Kings 19:32-34 (ESV)

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 2 Kings 19:35 (ESV)

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Hezekiah listened to the truth of God s word rather than the lies of his enemies.

Hezekiah lived like he believed the truth.

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (ESV)

Listen to the truth of God s word rather than the lies of the Enemy.

Live like you believe the truth.