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36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field, 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him. 4 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? 5 You say you have counsel and might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 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. 7 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”? 8 “‘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! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[a]? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’” 11 Then Eliakim, 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.” 12 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?” 13 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! 15 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.’ 16 “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, 17 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. 18 “Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 20 Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?” 21 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.” 22 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. 37 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3 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. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear 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.” 5 When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, 6 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. 7 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.’” 8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah. 9 Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[b] was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “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.’ 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 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? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?” 14 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. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: 16 “Lord Almighty, 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. 17 Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God. 18 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. 19 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. 20 Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are the only God.[c]” 21 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: “Virgin Daughter Zion despises and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee. 23 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! 24 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 heights, the finest of its forests. 25 I have dug wells in foreign lands[d] and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.’ 26 “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. 27 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[e] before it grows up. 28 “But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me. 29 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. 30 “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. 31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. 32 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. 33 “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. 34 By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city,” declares the Lord. 35 “I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!” 36 Then 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! 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. 38 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. 38 In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, “This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.” 2 Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, 3 “Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. 6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city. 7 “‘This is the Lord’s sign to you that the Lord will do what he has promised: 8 I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down. 9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: 10 I said, “In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?” 11 I said, “I will not again see the Lord himself in the land of the living; no longer will I look on my fellow man, or be with those who now dwell in this world. 12 Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me. 13 I waited patiently till dawn, but like a lion he broke all my bones; day and night you made an end of me. 14 I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!” 15 But what can I say? He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul. 16 Lord, by such things people live; and my spirit finds life in them too. You restored me to health and let me live. 17 Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back. 18 For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. 19 The living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today; parents tell their children about your faithfulness. 20 The Lord will save me, and we will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the temple of the Lord. 21 Isaiah had said, “Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.” 22 Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the Lord?” 39 At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery. 2 Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them. 3 Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?” “From a distant land,” Hezekiah replied. “They came to me from Babylon.” 4 The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?” “They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.” 5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord Almighty: 6 The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord. 7 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 8 “The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied. For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my lifetime.” 40 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord[f]; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.[g] 4 Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. 5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” 6 A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. 7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.” 9 You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem,[h] lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God!” 10 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. 11 He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young. 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance? 13 Who can fathom the Spirit[i] of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor? 14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding? 15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. 16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings. 17 Before him all the nations are as nothing; they are regarded by him as worthless and less than nothing. 18 With whom, then, will you compare God? To what image will you liken him? 19 As for an idol, a metalworker casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it. 20 A person too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot; they look for a skilled worker to set up an idol that will not topple. 21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded? 22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. 23 He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. 24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff. 25 “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. 27 Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God”? 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. 41 “Be silent before me, you islands! Let the nations renew their strength! Let them come forward and speak; let us meet together at the place of judgment. 2 “Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service[j]? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow. 3 He pursues them and moves on unscathed, by a path his feet have not traveled before. 4 Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he.” 5 The islands have seen it and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward; 6 they help each other and say to their companions, “Be strong!” 7 The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding, “It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple. 8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my friend, 9 I took you from the ends of the earth, from its farthest corners I called you. I said, ‘You are my servant’; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. 10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 11 “All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. 12 Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. 13 For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. 14 Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you,” declares the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. 15 “See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff. 16 You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up, and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel. 17 “The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. 19 I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, 20 so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it. 21 “Present your case,” says the Lord. “Set forth your arguments,” says Jacob’s King. 22 “Tell us, you idols, what is going to happen. Tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome. Or declare to us the things to come, 23 tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods. Do something, whether good or bad, so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear. 24 But you are less than nothing and your works are utterly worthless; whoever chooses you is detestable. 25 “I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay. 26 Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know, or beforehand, so we could say, ‘He was right’? No one told of this, no one foretold it, no one heard any words from you. 27 I was the first to tell Zion, ‘Look, here they are!’ I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news. 28 I look but there is no one— no one among the gods to give counsel, no one to give answer when I ask them. 29 See, they are all false! Their deeds amount to nothing; their images are but wind and confusion. Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. 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2 इतिहास 32 Nepali Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-NE) अश्शूरका राजाले हिजकियाहलाई सताउँछन् 32 हिजकियाहले यी सबै कुराहरू विश्वास पूर्वक गरि सकेपछि, अश्शूरका राजा सनहेरीब यहूदा देश माथि आक्रमण गर्न आए। सनहेरीब अनि तिनका सेनाले किल्लाका बाहिर छाउनी बसाए। तिनले यसो गरे जसमा कि ती शहरहरूलाई परास्त गर्नका निम्ति तिनले योजना बनाउन सकून्। सनहेरीब ती शहरहरूलाई आफ्नै निम्ति जित्न चाहन्थे। 2 हिजकियाहले जान्दथे कि सनहेरीब यरूशलेममा यसलाई आक्रमण गर्न आएको हो। 3 तब हिजकियाहले आफ्ना अधिकारीहरू अनि सैनिक अधिकारीहरू सित कुरा-कानी गरे। तिनीहरू सबै शहर बाहिरका जल स्रोतका पानी रोकि दिन सहमत भए। ती अधिकारीहरू अनि सैन्य अधिकारीहरूले हिजकियाहलाई सहयोग गरे। 4 धेरै मानिसहरू साथ आए अनि सबै जल-स्रोत अनि देशको मध्य भागबाट बग्ने खोलालाई बन्द गरिदिए। तिनीहरूले भने, “अश्शूरका राजाले अधिक पानी पाउने छैन जब तिनी यहाँ आउँछन्।” 5 हिजकियाहले यरूशलेमलाई अझ अधिक सुदृढ बनाए। तिनले यो काम यसरी गरेः तिनले पर्खालका सबै अंशहरू फेरि बनाए जो भत्किएका थिए। तिनले पर्खाल माथि किल्लाहरू बनाए। तिनले पहिलो पर्खालको बाहिर पट्टि अर्को पर्खाल पनि निर्माण गरे। तिनले यरूशलेमको पुरानो अंशको पूर्व तिरको सुदृढ स्थानहरूलाई फेरि निर्माण गरे। तिनले अनेक हतियारहरू अनि ढालहरू बनाए। 6-7 हिजकियाहले युद्धका अधिकारीहरूलाई मानिसहरू प्रति जिम्मावार रहनुका निम्ति चुने। तिनले यी अधिकारीहरूसित शहर द्वार नजिकको खुल्ला स्थानमा भेट गरे। हिजकियाहले ती अधिकारीहरूसित कुरा-कानी गरे अनि तिनीहरूलाई उत्सहित तुल्याए। तिनले भने, “बलियो र साहसी होऊ। अश्शूरका राजा वा तिनीसित भएका विशाल सेनासित नडराऊ वा चिन्ता नगर। अश्शूरका राजा जो तिनीसित भएको शक्ति भन्दा हामीसित महान शक्ति छ। 8 अश्शूरका राजाका मानिसहरू मात्र छन्। तर हामी सित परमप्रभु हाम्रा परमेश्वर साथ हुनुहुन्छ। हाम्रा परमेश्वरले हामीलाई सहायता गर्नु हुने छ। हाम्रा लडाईहरू उहाँले लडी दिनु हुनेछ।” यसरी यहूदाका राजा हिजकियाहले मानिसहरूलाई उत्साह दिए अनि तिनीहरूलाई शक्तिशाली अनुभव गराए। 9 अश्शूरका राजा सनहेरीब अनि तिनका सबै सेनाहरू लाकीश शहरको नजिकमा छाउनी लाएर बसेका थिए जसमा कि तिनीहरूले यसलाई परास्त गर्न सकून्। तब सनहेरीबले आफ्ना अधिकारीहरूलाई यहूदाका राजा हिजकियाह अनि यरूशलेमका सबै मानिसहरूका निम्ति सनहेरीबाका अधिकारीहरूसित संन्देश थियो। 10 तिनीहरूले भने, “अश्शूरका राजा सनहेरीब यसो भन्नु हुन्छ, ‘तिमीहरू के कुरामा विश्वास गर्छौ जसले तिमीहरूलाई युद्धको स्थितिमा पनि यरूशलेममा बसिरहन सिकायौ? 11 हिजकियाहले तिमीहरूलाई मूर्ख बनाउँदै छन्। तिमीहरूलाई छल गरेर यरूशलेममा बसिरहन लाएका छन् जसमा कि तिमीहरू भोक र तिर्खाद्वारा मर्ने छौ। हिजकियाहले तिमीहरूलाई भन्छन्, “परमप्रभु हाम्रा परमेश्वरले हामीलाई अश्शूरका राजा देखि बचाउँनु हुन्छ।” 12 हिजकियाह आफैंले परमप्रभुको उच्च स्थानहरू अनि वेदीहरू हटाए। तिनले तिमी यहूदा अनि यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूलाई भने कि तिमीहरूले केवल एउटा वेदीमा मात्र पूजा गर्नु पर्छ अनि धूप बाल्नु पर्छ। 13 निश्चय नै तिमीहरू जान्दछौ कि मेरा पुर्खाहरू अनि मैले अन्य देशका मानिसहरू प्रति के गरेका छु? अन्य देशहरूका देवताहरूले आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई बचाउँन सकेनन्। ती देवाताहरूले तिनीहरूका मानिसहरूलाई नष्ट गर्न देखि मलाई रोक्न सकेनन्। 14 मेरा पुर्खाहरूले ती देशहरूलाई ध्वंश गरे। कुनै यस्तो देवता छैन जसले मलाई उहाँका मानिसहरूलाई नष्ट गर्न देखि रोक्न सक्छन्। यसर्थ तिम्रो देवताले तिमीहरूलाई म बाट बचाउँन सक्छन् भनी तिमी सोच्छौ? 15 हिजकियाहलाई तिमीहरूले मूर्ख तुल्याउन वा तिमीहरूलाई छल्न नदेऊ। तिनी प्रति विश्वास नगर किनभने कुनै राष्ट्र वा राज्यका कुनै पनि देवता आफ्ना मानिसहरूलाई म वा मेरा पुर्खाहरूबाट बचाउँन कहिले पनि समर्थ भएनन्। यसर्थ तिम्रा देवताले तिमीहरूलाई नष्ट गर्न बाट मलाई रोक्न सक्छन् भनी नसोच।’” 16 अश्शूरका राजाका अधिकारीहरूले परमप्रभु परमेश्वरको विरूद्ध अनि परमेश्वरका सेवक हिजकियाहको विरूद्ध अत्यन्त नराम्रा कुराहरू भने। 17 अश्शूरका राजाले पत्रहरू पनि लेखे जसमा परमप्रभु इस्राएलका परमेश्वरको अपमान गरिएको थियो। यी शब्दहरू अश्शूरका राजाद्वारा पत्रहरूमा भनेको थिएः “अन्य राष्ट्रहरूका देवताहरूले तिनीहरूका मानिसहरूलाई ध्वंश गर्नबाट मलाई रोक्न सकेनन्। यस्तै प्रकारले हिजकियाहका परमेश्वरले उहाँका मानिसहरूलाई ध्वंश गर्नबाट मलाई रोक्न समर्थ हुने छैनन्।” 18 तब अश्शूरका राजाका अधिकारीहरूले यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूलाई जोडले कराए जो शहरका पर्खालमा थिए। ती अधिकारीले हिब्रू भाषा प्रयोग। गरे जब तिनीहरू माथि भएका मानिसहरू प्रति कराए। अश्शूरका राजाका ती अधिकारीहरूले यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूलाई भयभीत तुल्याउन भनी यसो गरे। तिनीहरूले ती कुराहरू भने जसद्वारा तिनीहरू यरूशलेम शहरलाई कब्जा गर्न सकुन्। 19 ती अधिकारीहरूले संसारका मानिसहरूले पूजा गर्ने देवताहरूको विरूद्ध नराम्रा कुराहरू भने। ती देवताहरू केवल मानिसहरूले अफ्ना हातहरूद्वारा बनाएका कुराहरू हुन्। त्यही प्रकारले, ती अधिकारीहरूले त्यस्तै नराम्रा कुराहरू यरूशलेमका परमेश्वरको विरूद्ध भने। 20 राजा हिजकियाह अनि अगमवक्ता यशौया-आमोसका छोराले यो समस्याको विषयमा प्रार्थना गरे। तिनीहरूले ठूलो आवाजमा स्वर्गतिर हेरेर प्रार्थना गरे। 21 तब परमप्रभुले अश्शूरका राजाको छाउनीमा एक स्वर्गदूतलाई पठाउनु भयो। त्यो स्वर्गदूतले अश्शूरी सेनाका सबै सैनिकहरू अनि प्रमुखहरू र अधिकारीहरूलाई मारिदिए। यसर्थ अश्शूरका राजा आफ्नै देशतर्फ फर्किए, अनि तिनका मानिसहरू तिनी प्रति लज्जित थिए। तिनी आफ्ना देवताको मन्दिर भित्र गए अनि तिनका आफ्नै केही छोराहरूले तिनलाई त्यही तरवारद्वारा मारिदिए। 22 यसरी परमप्रभुले हिजकियाह अनि यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूलाई अश्शूरका राजा सनहेरीब अनि सबै अन्य मानिसहरूबाट बचाउँनु भयो। परमप्रभुले हिजकियाह अनि यरूशलेमका मानिसहरूको हेरचाह गरिदिनु भयो। 23 धेरै मानिसहरूले यरूशलेममा परमप्रभुका निम्ति उपहारहरू ल्याए अनि यहूदाका राजा हिजकियाहका निम्ति मूल्यवान वस्तुहरू ल्याए। त्यस समयदेखि सबै राष्ट्रहरूले हिजकियाहलाई सम्मान गरे। 24 ती दिनहरूमा हिजकियाह साह्रै बिरामी भए अनि मृत्युको नजिक पुगे। तिनले परमप्रभुलाई प्रार्थना गरे। परमप्रभु हिजकियाहसित बोल्नु भयो अनि तिनलाई संकेत दिनु भयो। 25 तर हिजकियाहको हृदय घमण्डले भरिएको थियो, यसर्थ तिनले परमेश्वरको दयालुपन प्रति परमेश्वरलाई धन्यवाद चढाएनन्। यसै कारणले गर्दा परमेश्वर हिजकियाह अनि यहूदा र यरूशलेमका मानिसहरू प्रति क्रोधित हुनु भयो। 26 तर हिजकियाह अनि यरूशलेममा बस्ने ती मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूको हृदय र जीवनलाई परिवर्त्तन गरे। तिनीहरू नम्र भए र घमण्ड गर्न छोडे त्यसकारण हिजकियाह जीवित रहेसम्म परमप्रभुको क्रोध तिनीहरूमाथि परेन। 27 हिजकियाहसित धेरै धन अनि सम्मान थिए। तिनले चाँदी, सुन, मूल्यवान रत्न, मसाला, ढाल अनि सबै किसिमका चीजहरू राख्ने स्थानहरू बनाए। 28 हिजकियाहका अन्न, नयाँ दाख मद्य अनि तेलहरू, ती मानिसहरूले पठाएका वस्तुहरू, राख्ने भंण्डारहरू थिए। तिनका सबै किसिमका पशुहरू राख्ने पशुशालाहरू अनि भेंडाहरू राख्ने खर्कहरू थिए। 29 हिजकियाहले अनेक शहरहरू पनि निर्माण गरे अनि तिनले धेरै भेंडा अनि गाई बस्तुहरूका बथानहरू पनि प्राप्त गरे। परमेश्वरले हिजकियाहलाई धेरै धन-सम्पत्ति दिनु भयो। 30 यो हिजकियाह नै थिए जसले यरूशलेममा गीहोन जल स्रोतको माथिल्लो स्रोत बन्द गरिदिए अनि ती पानीलाई दाऊदको शहरको पश्चिम तर्फ बगेर जाने तुल्याए। अनि तिनले गरेका हरेक कुरामा हिजकियाह सफल रहे। 31 एक समयमा बाबेलका प्रमुखहरूले हिजकियाह कहाँ दूतहरू पठाए। ती दूतहरूले एक अद्भूत संकेतको बारेमा सोधे जो राष्ट्रहरूमा प्रकट भएको थियो। जब तिनीहरू आए, परमेश्वरले तिनको परिक्षा गर्न अनि हिजकियाहको मनमा के छ ती सबै जान्नका निम्ति हिजकियाहलाई एक्लै छाड्नु भयो। 32 हिजकियाहले गरेका अन्य कुराहरू र उनको परमेश्वर प्रतिको विश्वासयोग्यता, आमोसका छोरो यशैया अगमवक्ताको दर्शन भनिने पुस्तक अनि यहूदा अनि इस्राएलका राजाहरूका इतिहास भनिने पुस्तकमा लेखिएका छन्। 33 हिजकियाहको मृत्यु भयो अनि आफ्ना पुर्खाहरूसित गाडिए। मानिसहरूले हिजकियाहलाई डाँडामा गाडे जहाँ दाऊदका पुर्खाहरूका चिहानहरू छन्। यहूदाका अनि यरूशलेममा बस्ने सबै मानिसहरूले हिजकियाहलाई सम्मान प्रदान गरे जब तिनको मृत्यु भयो। मनश्शे हिजकियाहका स्थानमा नयाँ राजा भए। मनश्शे हिजकियाहका छोरा थिए।