by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:1 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. In II Chronicles 29:3 right at the start of the story of Hezekiah there, we read “In the first year of his reign,...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 19:2 “And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.” Hezekiah has gone by himself to the temple, to present himself before...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 18:28 “Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!” What a great picture we have here. The Rabshakeh (chief officer) of the Assyrian army is outside the gates of...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 18:31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me[a] and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 18:32 “until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying,...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Keys From Ancient Wisdom -- The Life of Hezekiah
II Kings 18:33 ” Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?” The problem initially for us as the reader is that there is truth in this statement. We know from history that already 46 cities in...
