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He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that neither after him nor before was there any like him among all the kings of Judah.
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For he cleaved unto the LORD
and did not depart from following him, but kept his commandments which the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the LORD was with him,
and he prospered in all things in which he went forth; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
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He smote the Philistines,
even unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the towers of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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And in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which
was the seventh year of Hosea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it.
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And at the end of three years, they took it;
even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that
is the ninth year of Hosea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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And the king of Assyria carried away Israel unto Assyria and put them in Halah and in Habor
by the river of Gozan and in the cities of the Medes:
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because they had not hearkened unto the voice of the LORD their God, but had broken his covenant
and all that Moses, the slave of the LORD, commanded and would not hear
them nor do
them.
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Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the fenced cities of Judah and took them.
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And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent unto the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have sinned; return from me; that which thou puttest on me I will bear. Then the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah, king of Judah, three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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And Hezekiah gave
him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasury of the king’s house.