He told you people in Judah and Jerusalem that you should worship in front of one altar only. 12 Remember that Hezekiah himself removed this god's high places for worship and his altars. You will die because you will have no food or water. 11 Hezekiah is saying that the Lord your God will save you from the king of Assyria. This is what it said:ģ2:9 Lachish was a town about 25 miles (40 kilometres) to the south and west of Jerusalem.ġ0 ‘Sennacherib, king of Assyria says this to you: “You are sitting in Jerusalem and there are soldiers everywhere round you. Then he sent a message to Judah's King Hezekiah and to all Judah's people with him in Jerusalem. Sennacherib tells Hezekiah that Hezekiah cannot win a fight with himĩ Sennacherib, the king of Assyria and all his army were waiting round Lachish to attack it. But we have the Lord our God to help us and to fight for us.’ And the words that Judah's King Hezekiah spoke caused the people to feel brave. 8 He has only human soldiers to help him. There are more soldiers with us than there are with him. And do not think that they will certainly beat you. Do not be afraid of Assyria's king or of his large army. This is what he said: 7 ‘Be strong and brave. They met in the big place by the city's gate. He asked all the captains to come together in front of him. Hezekiah prepares to fightĦ Hezekiah chose some men to be captains over the people in the fight. And he made a lot of weapons and shields too. He made the wall called the Millo round the City of David stronger, too.
And he built another wall outside the first wall. Hezekiah built tall buildings on the walls. All the men worked as well as they could. They said, ‘We do not want the kings of Assyria to find plenty of water here.’ 5 Then Hezekiah's men worked to do repairs to the city's walls where they needed it.
And they stopped the big stream that went through the land there. And the officers and the soldiers helped him to do it. They decided to stop all the water that came from streams round the city. 3 So he talked with his officers and with his best soldiers. And he saw that he wanted to fight against Jerusalem's people. Hezekiah makes Jerusalem strongĢ Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come. His soldiers lived in tents round all the strong cities that had walls. 2 Chronicles 32 Sennacherib attacks Judahġ After Hezekiah had done all these good things, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria came into Judah.
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