Hezekiah and Isaiah
17 Hezekiah strengthened the city's defenses, and he provided a water supply. He tunneled through rock with iron tools, and he constructed storage tanks for water.
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During his rule, Sennacherib moved on Jerusalem, commissioned the field commander, and departed. The field commander attacked Zion, and made great boasts in his arrogance.
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Then the people's hearts and hands were shaken, and they were in agony like a woman who is in labor.
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They called upon the Lord who is merciful, reaching out their hands to him. The holy one at once heard them from heaven, and he rescued them through Isaiah.
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The Lord struck down the camp of the Assyrians, and his messenger destroyed them.
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Hezekiah did what was pleasing to the Lord, and he kept to the ways of David his ancestor, as Isaiah the prophet, who was great and whose visions were reliable, had commanded.
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In Isaiah's time, the sun moved backward, and he extended the king's life.
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By his great spirit, he saw what was to come, and he comforted those who mourned in Zion.
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He revealed forever what would be and hidden things even before they happened. is like a blend of incense, prepared with skill by a perfumer. It will be sweet in the mouth, like honey, like music at a wine-drinking party.