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As in his life he did wonders, so in death his deeds were marvelous.
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For all this the people did not repent, and they did not forsake their sins, till they were carried away captive from their land and were scattered over all the earth; the people were left very few in number, but with rulers from the house of David.
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Some of them did what was pleasing to God, but others multiplied sins.
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Hezekiah fortified his city, and brought water into the midst of it; he tunneled the sheer rock with iron and built pools for water.
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In his days Sennacherib came up, and sent the Rabshakeh; he lifted up his hand against Zion and made great boasts in his arrogance.
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Then their hearts were shaken and their hands trembled, and they were in anguish, like women in travail.
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But they called upon the Lord who is merciful, spreading forth their hands toward him; and the Holy One quickly heard them from heaven, and delivered them by the hand of Isaiah.
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The Lord smote the camp of the Assyrians, and his angel wiped them out.
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For Hezekiah did what was pleasing to the Lord, and he held strongly to the ways of David his father, which Isaiah the prophet commanded, who was great and faithful in his vision.
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In his days the sun went backward, and he lengthened the life of the king.
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By the spirit of might he saw the last things, and comforted those who mourned in Zion.