1After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) came, and entered into Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. 2And when Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] saw that Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], 3He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which [were] without the city: and they did help him. 4So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) come, and find much water? 5Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [fortification (defensive structure) or mound] [in] the city of David [beloved], and made darts and shields in abundance. 6And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying, 7Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), nor for all the multitude that [is] with him: for [there be] more with us than with him: 8With him [is] an arm of flesh; but with us [is] the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

9After this did Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) send his servants to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], (but he [himself laid siege] against Lakhish [Invincible], and all his power with him,) unto Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and unto all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] that [were] at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, 10Thus says Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), Whereon do you^2f trust, that you^2f abide in the siege in Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]? 11Does not Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known)))? 12Has not the same Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], saying, You^2f shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it? 13Know you^2f not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of my hand? 14Who [was there] among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] should be able to deliver you out of my hand? 15Now therefore let not Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] deliver you out of my hand?

16And his servants spoke yet [more] against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and against his servant Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength]. 17He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of [other] lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] deliver his people out of my hand. 18Then they cried with a loud voice in the Y’hudit (Y’hudim (Judeans)’) speech unto the people of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] that [were] on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. 19And they spoke against the God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], as against the gods of the people of the earth, [which were] the work of the hands of man.

20And for this [cause] Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] the king, and the prophet Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the son of Amotz [strong], prayed and cried to heaven. 21And the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))). So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels (inward parts; affections) killed him there with the sword. 22Thus the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) saved Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] from the hand of Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem [name] (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and from the hand of all [other], and guided them on every side. 23And many brought gifts unto the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], and presents to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] king of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

24In those days Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and he spoke unto him, and he gave him a sign. 25But Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] rendered not again according to the benefit [done] unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]. 26Yet Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] humbled himself for the pride of his heart, [both] he and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], so that the wrath of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) came not upon them in the days of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength].

27And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels; 28Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and stables for flocks. 29Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had given him substance very much. 30This same Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] also stopped the upper watercourse of Gikhon (Bursting Forth), and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David [beloved]. And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] prospered in all his works. 31However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Bavel (to jumble, or a confused medley of sounds; confusion; gate of the deity) (Babylon) [confusion], who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was [done] in the land, God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] left him, to try him, that he might know all [that was] in his heart.

32Now the rest of the acts of Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], and his goodness, behold, they [are] written in the vision of Yesha’yahu [Yehovah has saved] the prophet, the son of Amotz [strong], [and] in the book of the kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 33And Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the most important of the sepulchres of the sons of David [beloved]: and all Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] did him honour at his death. And M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] his son reigned in his stead.