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|2 Reyes 18:1|
In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
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2
|2 Reyes 18:2|
He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah [Hebrew Abi, a variant of Abijah] daughter of Zechariah.
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3
|2 Reyes 18:3|
He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
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|2 Reyes 18:4|
He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called [Or He called it] Nehushtan.) [Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for bronze and snake and unclean thing.]
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|2 Reyes 18:5|
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no-one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.
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|2 Reyes 18:6|
He held fast to the LORD and did not cease to follow him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.
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|2 Reyes 18:7|
And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
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|2 Reyes 18:8|
From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.
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|2 Reyes 18:9|
In King Hezekiah’s fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.
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10
|2 Reyes 18:10|
At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah’s sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.
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