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He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.
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For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.
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And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.
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He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.
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Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.
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And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;
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Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.
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Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.
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And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.