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The story of Hezekiah was about one of the few faithful kings there were. We see God act on his behalf because of his faith that showed in loyalty to God! The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them. The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”? “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’” Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.” But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?” Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! “Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?” But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.” Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said. Sennecharib was no doubt a foe to be rekonned and he tried to cast doubt into Hezekiah’s mind that God would or could deliver. In times of seemingly insurmountable odds, like Sennecharib the devil will try to tempt the people of God to not think God can or is willing to come through. “If God really cared, why has he not responded to your prayers yet?” Or “Maybe God just is not able to help you here” but these doubts that arise from self or Satan are lies. God wants us to faithfully obey him and trust him inspite of what may be going on all around us. When Peter and the disciples were on the Sea of Galilea they encountered a storm and Jesus was sleeping in the boat. They got so worked up that they woke him! —-One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. 25 “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him.” With Jesus in the boat they had no reason to fear, because being that Jesus is the Son of God, God was not going to let the disciples or Jesus drown on the boat. Jesus had a mission to fulfill and he told them in advance they would go to the otherside of the lake. When we look back in the story of king Hezekiah of Judah, we see his response of faith toward God. ——When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.” When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’” When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah. Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’ Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?” —“Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’” Yet we see that at first glance things do not seem to improve, even after he hears word that the king of Cush was marching out to meet him. We shouldn’t let this make us think God’s prophesy failed yet it did not unfold as quickly as one may think if they heard this. We see Hezekiah pray: “Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “ Lord , the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord , and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God. “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God.” —- We see that Hezekiah first starts by presenting the letter and reminding God of who he is and in a form of praise and worship he intercedes. He is humble and acknowleges that he is powerless and no doubt the Assyrian king is formidable but brings to God’s attention that the king of Assyria has insulted God. Here is one thing that God seems to quickly stir over, defiant insults against Him. Goliath in the story of David fell dead because he boasted and mocked God and Sennacherib will also too as we will soon see. Hezekiah’s prayer also had a very key element, he was thinking of God’s honor——“So that the kingdoms of the earth may know, that you alone, Lord, are God.” What unfolds after is the prophet Isaiah comes with a message from the Lord: Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “‘Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee. Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, “With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests. I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.” “‘Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone. Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up. “‘But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me. Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.’ “This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. “The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: “‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the Lord. I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’” That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king. Whatever the odds are against us, remember: What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died —more than that, who was raised to life —is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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यशैया अध्याय 36 1 हिजकियाह राजा भएको चौधौं वर्षमा अश्शूरका राजा सनहेरीब यहूदाका मुख्य शहरहरूको विरूद्ध लडाई लड्न गए। सनहेरीबले ती शहरलाई पराजित गरे। 2 सनहेरीबले आफ्ना कप्तानसँग विशाल सेनाहरू यरूशलेममा राजा हिजकियाहकहाँ पठाए। कप्तान र उनका सेनाहरू लाकीश छाडेर यरूशलेम तिर गए। तिनीहरू माथिल्लो झाडीको जलमार्ग नजिक रोकिए। (माथिल्लो पोखरी धोबीको खेत जाने बाटोतर्फ पर्छ।) 3 यरूशलेमबाट तीन जना पुरूषहरू कप्तानसँग कुरा गर्न गए। तिनीहरू हुन हिल्कियाहको छोरो एल्याकीम, आसापको छोरो योआ अनि शेब्ना। एल्याकीम राजदरबारका प्रशासक थिए। योआ लेखापाल थिए। अनि शेब्ना दरबारको सचिव थिए। 4 कप्तानले तिनीहरूलाई भने, “हिजिकियाहलाई, ‘महाराज, अश्शूरका राजाले यसो भन्छन् भनतिमीहरूले सहायताको लागि केमा भरोसा गरिरहेकाछौ? 5 म तिमीहरूलाई भन्दछु यदि तिमीहरूले शक्ति र युद्धको योजनामा भरोसा गर्दछौ, यो व्यार्थ हो। तिनीहरू खोक्रा शब्दहरू बाहेक केही होइनन्। अब म तिमीहरूलाई सोध्दछु, तिमीहरूकोमाथि भरोसा गरेर मेरो विरूद्धमा विद्रोह गरिरहेका छौ? 6 के तिमीहरू सहयोगको लागि मिश्रमाथि भर परिरहेकाछौ? मिश्र एउटा भाँचिएको लौरो जस्तो छ। यदि तिमीहरू सहायताको लागि त्यता ढल्किन्छौ भने, त्यसले केवल तिमीहरूलाई चोट पुर्याउनेछ र तिम्रो हातमा दुलो पारिदिनेछ। मिश्रका राजा फिरऊनमाथि कसैले पनि भरोसा राख्न सक्दैन्। 7 तर तिमीहरू यसो भन्न सक्छौ, “हामी आफ्ना परमप्रभु परमेश्वरबाट सहायता पाउने भरोसा गरिरहेछौ।” तर म जान्दछु हिजकियाहले ती वेदीहरू र उच्च स्थानहरू ध्वंश पारे जहाँ मानिसहरूले परमप्रभुलाई पूज्दथे। अनि हिजकियाहले यहूदा र यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूलाई भने, “तिमीहरूले यहाँ यरूशलेमको एउटा बेदीमा आराधना गर्नुपर्छ।” 8 यदि तिमीहरू अझ लडाइँ गर्न चाहन्छौ भने मेरो मालिक, अश्शूरका राजाले तिमीहरूसँग यो सम्झौता गर्नेछन्। यदि तिमीहरूले युद्धको लागि घोड-सवारहरू पाउन सक्छौ भने म दुइ हजार घोडाहरू दिने वचन दिन्छु। 9 तर त्यसो हुँदा पनि तिमीहरूले मेरो मालिकका निम्न स्तरका अधिकारीहरू सम्मलाई पराजित गर्न सक्दैनौ। यसकारण किन तिमीहरू लगातार मिश्रका रथहरू र घोड-सवारी सेनाहरूमा भर पर्छौ? 10 अहिले के तिमीहरू सोच्दछौ कि म परमप्रभुको सहयोग बिना यो देश ध्वंश गर्न आएको थिएँ? होइन! परमप्रभुले मलाई भन्नुभयो, “यो देशको विरूद्ध उठ्, जा र ध्वंश पार।” 11 तब एल्याकीम, शेब्ना र योआहले रबशाकेलाई भने, “दया गरेर हामी प्रति अरामी भाषामा बोल्नु होस्। हामी त्यो भाषा बुझ्छौ। हामीसित यहूदी भाषामा नबोल्नु होस्। यदि तिमीले हाम्रो भाषा प्रयोग गर्यौ भने शहरका पर्खालहरूमा भएका मानिसहरूले पनि बुझ्नेछन्।” 12 तर रबशाकेले भने, “के मेरा मालिकले तिमीहरू र तिमीहरूका मालिकहरूसित मात्र बोल्न पठाएको होइन्। मेरो मालिकले ती मानिसहरूसँग पनि बोल्न पठाए जो पर्खालहरूमाथि बसिरहेका छन्। ती मानिसहरूसँग खाद्य र पानी सम्म छैन, तिमीहरूले जस्तै तिनीहरूले आफ्नै दिशा खानेहरू र आफ्नै पिसाब पिउनेछन्।” 13 तब रबशाके यहूदी भाषामा साह्रो चिच्याए अनि यसो भने, 14 “अश्शूरका महाराजाको यो सन्देश सुन,हिजकियाहले तिमीहरूलाई मूर्ख नबनावोस। उसले आफ्नो शक्तिले तिमीहरूलाई बचाउँन सक्दैन्। 15 हिजकियाहमाथि भरोसा नगर जब उसले भन्दछ, ‘परमप्रभुमा भरोसा गर! परमप्रभुले निश्चय हामीलाई बचाउँनु हुनेछ। परमप्रभुले अश्शूरका राजालाई यो शहर परास्त गर्न दिनुहुने छैन।’ 16 हिजकियाहबाट ती शब्दहरू नसुन्। अश्शूरका महाराजाको कुरा सुन्। अश्शूरका राजाले भन्दछ, “हामीले एउटा सम्झौता गर्नुपर्छ। तिमीहरू शहरबाट मकहाँ आउनु पर्छ। तब मात्र प्रत्येक मानिसले आफ्नो घर जानलाई स्वतन्त्र हुनेछ। प्रत्येक मानिसले आफ्ना दाखको बोटबाट स्वतन्त्र रूपले दाख खान पाउनेछ। अनि प्रत्येक मानिसले स्वतन्त्र रूपमा आफ्नो नेभाराको बोटबाट फल खान पाउने छ। प्रत्येक मानिसहरूले आफ्ना इनारबाट स्वतन्त्र रूपमा पानी पिउन पाउने छ। 17 जबसम्म म आउँदिन तिमीहरूले त्यसो गर्न सक्छौ अनि तिमीहरू प्रत्येकलाई त्यस भूमिमा लिएर जाँदिन जो तिमीहरूकै आफ्नो जस्तै छ। त्यस नयाँ देशमा तिमीहरूले राम्रो अन्न र नयाँ दाखरस, रोटी अनि अङ्गुरका लहराहरू पाउनेछौ।” 18 हिजकियाहलाई कष्ट पुर्याउन नदेऊ। हिजकियाह भन्दछ, “परमप्रभुले हामीलाई बचाउनु हुने छ।” तर म तिमीहरूलाई सोध्छु, के अन्य जातिहरूका देवताहरूले तिनीहरूको देशलाई अश्शूरका राजाबाट बचाउन सक्यो? होइन। 19 हमात र अर्पादका देवताहरू कहाँ छन? तिनीहरू परास्त भए। सपर्बेमका देवताहरू कहाँ छन्? तिनीहरू परास्त भए,! के तिनीहरूले शक्तिद्वारा सामरियालाई बचाए? होइन। 20 के अन्य देवताहरूले अरू देशहरूमा मबाट आफ्ना ठाउँहरू बचाए? अहँ! के परमप्रभुले मबाट यरूशलेम बचाउन सक्नुहोला त?” 21 तर यरूशलेमका मानिसहरू एकदम चुपचाप थिए। तिनीहरूले एक शब्द पनि कप्तानलाई भनेन किनभने राजा हिजकियाहले तिनीहरूलाई हुकुम दिएका थिए। उनले भने, उसलाई केही पनि नभन।” 22 त्यसपछि राजदरबारका व्यवस्थापक (हिल्कियाहको छोरो एल्याकीम), राजकीय सचिव शेब्ना अनि धर्मशास्त्री आसापको छोरो योआ हिजकियाह कहाँ गए। तिनीहरूले शोकव्यक्त गर्न आफ्ना लुगाहरू च्याते अनि हिजकियाहलाई प्रत्येक कुरा भने जो अश्शूरका कप्तानले भनेका थिए।