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and commandment which the L
ORD
commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
35
With whom the L
ORD
had made a covenant, and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other
gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
36
But the L
ORD
, who
brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye
fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
37
And the statutes, and the
ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
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And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall
not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
39
But the L
ORD
your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
40
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after
their former manner.
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So these nations feared the L
ORD
, and served their graven images, both their
children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
CHAPTER KINGS 18
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,
that
Hezekiah the son
of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign;
and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also
was
Abi, the daughter
of Zachariah.
3
And he did
that which was
right in the sight of the L
ORD
, according to all that David
his father did.
4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in
pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn
incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5
He trusted in the L
ORD
God of Israel; so that after him
was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor
any
that were before him.
6
For he clave to
the L
ORD
,
and
departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the L
ORD
commanded Moses.
7
And the L
ORD
was with him;
and
he prospered whithersoever he went forth:
and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8
He smote the Philistines,
even
unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which
was
the seventh year of Hoshea
son of Elah king of Israel,
that
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged
it.
10
And at the end of three years they took it:
even
in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that
is
the ninth
year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel
unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor
by
the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the
Medes:
12
Because they obeyed not the voice of the L
ORD
their God, but transgressed his covenant,
and
all that Moses the servant of the L
ORD
commanded, and would not hear
them,
nor do
them.
13
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against
all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I
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