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II Kings Chapter 19

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In this chapter the Assyrian army invades Jerusalem and the king’s son is taken captive, leaving the people in great distress. The narrative underscores God’s judgment and the importance of remaining faithful despite hardship.

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(1) And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
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Isaiah 37:1Isaiah 37:2Isaiah 37:3Isaiah 37:4Isaiah 37:5Isaiah 37:6Isaiah 37:7II Kings 5:7II Kings 18:37I Samuel 4:12Ezra 9:3Job 1:20

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Isaiah 37:1I Kings 21:27II Kings 5:8Genesis 37:34II Kings 6:30II Kings 18:37

(2) And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
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II Kings 18:18II Kings 22:13II Kings 22:14Isaiah 37:2Isaiah 37:3Isaiah 37:4Isaiah 37:5II Chronicles 26:22Matthew 4:14Luke 3:4Isaiah 1:1Isaiah 2:1

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Isaiah 37:2II Kings 18:18II Kings 18:37Isaiah 36:22II Kings 20:1II Chronicles 26:22

(3) And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
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II Kings 18:29Psalms 39:11Psalms 123:3Psalms 123:4Jeremiah 30:5Jeremiah 30:6Jeremiah 30:7Hosea 5:15Hosea 6:1Psalms 95:8Hebrews 3:15Hebrews 3:16

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Isaiah 37:3

(4) It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
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Genesis 22:14Deuteronomy 32:36Joshua 14:12I Samuel 14:6II Samuel 16:12II Kings 18:17II Kings 18:18II Kings 18:19II Kings 18:20II Kings 18:21II Kings 18:22II Kings 18:23

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Isaiah 37:4II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:27Isaiah 36:12

(5) So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
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II Kings 20:14Isaiah 39:3

(6) And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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Isaiah 37:6Isaiah 37:7Isaiah 37:8Isaiah 37:9Isaiah 37:10Isaiah 37:11Isaiah 37:12Isaiah 37:13Isaiah 37:14Isaiah 37:15Isaiah 37:16Isaiah 37:17

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Isaiah 37:6II Kings 17:4Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6

(7) Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
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II Kings 19:35II Kings 19:36II Kings 19:37Job 4:9Psalms 11:6Psalms 18:14Psalms 18:15Psalms 50:3Isaiah 10:16Isaiah 10:17Isaiah 10:18Isaiah 11:4

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Isaiah 37:7Song of Solomon 6:13I Samuel 6:3Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55

(8) So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
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II Kings 8:22Joshua 10:29Joshua 12:15Joshua 15:42II Kings 18:14Joshua 12:11Joshua 15:39Isaiah 37:8Isaiah 37:9Micah 1:13

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Isaiah 37:8II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:14II Kings 18:17II Kings 19:36Isaiah 36:2

(9) And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
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I Samuel 23:27Isaiah 37:9II Kings 18:17

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Isaiah 37:9II Kings 19:14Isaiah 37:14

(10) Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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II Kings 18:5II Kings 18:29II Kings 18:30II Chronicles 32:15II Chronicles 32:16II Chronicles 32:17II Chronicles 32:18II Chronicles 32:19Isaiah 37:10Isaiah 37:11Isaiah 37:12Isaiah 37:13

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II Kings 18:14Isaiah 37:10II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:16II Kings 18:19II Kings 18:30

(11) Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
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II Kings 19:17II Kings 19:18II Kings 17:5II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:7II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:9II Kings 17:10II Kings 17:11II Chronicles 32:13II Chronicles 32:14Isaiah 10:8

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Isaiah 37:11II Kings 17:4II Chronicles 32:13Deuteronomy 3:6

(12) Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
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II Kings 18:33II Kings 18:34II Kings 17:6I Chronicles 5:26Genesis 11:31Genesis 29:4Acts 7:4Genesis 2:8Isaiah 37:12Ezekiel 27:23

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Isaiah 37:12Judges 10:6Deuteronomy 12:30II Kings 18:34II Kings 19:18Isaiah 36:19

(13) Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
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II Kings 17:24Numbers 13:21Numbers 34:8Isaiah 11:11Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 49:23Zechariah 9:2II Kings 18:34Isaiah 37:13Isaiah 37:14Isaiah 37:15Isaiah 37:16

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II Kings 18:34Isaiah 37:13

(14) And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
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Isaiah 37:14I Kings 8:28I Kings 8:29I Kings 8:30Ezra 9:5Psalms 74:10Psalms 74:11Psalms 91:1Psalms 91:2Psalms 123:1Psalms 123:2Psalms 123:3

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Isaiah 37:14II Kings 18:14II Kings 18:16II Kings 20:12II Kings 20:13II Kings 20:14

(15) And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
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II Samuel 7:18II Samuel 7:19II Samuel 7:20II Samuel 7:21II Samuel 7:22II Samuel 7:23II Samuel 7:24II Samuel 7:25II Samuel 7:26II Samuel 7:27II Samuel 7:28II Chronicles 14:11

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Isaiah 37:16

(16) LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
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Psalms 31:2Isaiah 37:17I Kings 8:29II Chronicles 6:40Daniel 9:18II Kings 19:4Psalms 79:12Isaiah 37:4Hebrews 11:26

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Isaiah 37:17

(17) Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
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Job 9:2Isaiah 5:9Jeremiah 26:15Daniel 2:47Matthew 14:33Luke 22:59Acts 4:27I Corinthians 14:25II Kings 16:9II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:24I Chronicles 5:26

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II Kings 17:4II Chronicles 32:13

(18) And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
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II Samuel 5:21Isaiah 46:1Isaiah 46:2Psalms 115:4Psalms 115:5Psalms 115:6Psalms 115:7Psalms 115:8Isaiah 37:18Isaiah 37:19Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 44:10

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Judges 10:6Isaiah 37:19Deuteronomy 4:28Deuteronomy 12:30Deuteronomy 28:36Deuteronomy 28:64

(19) Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
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Exodus 9:15Exodus 9:16Joshua 7:9I Samuel 17:45I Samuel 17:46I Samuel 17:47I Kings 8:43I Kings 18:36I Kings 18:37I Kings 20:28Psalms 67:1Psalms 67:2

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Psalms 118:25

(20) Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
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II Samuel 15:31II Samuel 17:23II Kings 20:5II Chronicles 32:20II Chronicles 32:21Job 22:27Psalms 50:15Psalms 65:2Isaiah 58:9Isaiah 65:24Jeremiah 33:3Daniel 9:20

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Isaiah 37:21II Kings 18:14II Chronicles 32:20II Kings 17:4II Kings 18:13II Kings 18:16

(21) This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
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Isaiah 23:12Isaiah 37:21Isaiah 37:22Isaiah 37:23Isaiah 37:24Isaiah 37:25Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 37:27Isaiah 37:28Isaiah 37:29Isaiah 37:30Isaiah 37:31

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Isaiah 37:22Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Lamentations 2:13Isaiah 47:1

(22) Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
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II Kings 18:28II Kings 18:29II Kings 18:30II Kings 18:31II Kings 18:32II Kings 18:33II Kings 18:34II Kings 18:35Exodus 5:2Psalms 73:9Psalms 74:22Psalms 74:23

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Isaiah 37:23

(23) By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
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II Kings 18:17II Chronicles 32:17II Kings 18:23II Kings 18:33II Kings 18:34Psalms 20:7Isaiah 10:7Isaiah 10:8Isaiah 10:9Isaiah 10:10Isaiah 10:11Isaiah 10:14

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Isaiah 37:24II Chronicles 2:8Leviticus 23:40I Kings 5:10I Kings 9:11Ezekiel 31:14

(24) I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
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Exodus 15:9II Samuel 17:13I Kings 20:10Daniel 4:30

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Isaiah 37:25Ezekiel 1:7Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 32:2Ezekiel 34:18Genesis 1:6

(25) Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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Psalms 33:11Psalms 76:10Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 37:26Isaiah 37:27Isaiah 45:7Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 46:11Isaiah 54:16Acts 4:27

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Isaiah 37:26Obadiah 1:12

(26) Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
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Numbers 11:23Numbers 14:9Psalms 48:4Psalms 48:5Psalms 48:6Psalms 48:7Psalms 127:1Jeremiah 37:10Jeremiah 50:36Jeremiah 50:37Jeremiah 51:30Jeremiah 51:32

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Isaiah 37:27I Peter 1:24Daniel 4:15Deuteronomy 32:2Psalms 37:2Isaiah 40:7

(27) But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
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Psalms 139:1Psalms 139:2Psalms 139:3Psalms 139:4Psalms 139:5Psalms 139:6Psalms 139:7Psalms 139:8Psalms 139:9Psalms 139:10Psalms 139:11Jeremiah 23:23

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Isaiah 37:28I Samuel 29:6

(28) Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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Psalms 2:1Psalms 2:2Psalms 2:3Psalms 2:4Psalms 2:5Psalms 7:6Psalms 10:13Psalms 10:14Psalms 46:6Psalms 93:3Psalms 93:4Luke 6:11

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Isaiah 37:29Isaiah 30:21Ezekiel 33:11

(29) And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
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II Kings 19:21II Kings 19:31II Kings 19:32II Kings 19:33II Kings 19:34II Kings 20:8II Kings 20:9Exodus 3:12I Samuel 2:34Isaiah 7:11Isaiah 7:12Isaiah 7:13

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Isaiah 37:30Revelation 8:12I Kings 18:34Psalms 107:37II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2

(30) And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
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II Kings 19:4II Chronicles 32:22II Chronicles 32:23Isaiah 1:9Isaiah 10:20Isaiah 10:21Isaiah 10:22Psalms 80:9Isaiah 27:6Isaiah 37:31Isaiah 37:32

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Isaiah 37:31Hosea 9:16Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Ezekiel 47:12

(31) For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
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II Kings 19:4Jeremiah 44:14Romans 9:27Romans 11:5Isaiah 9:7Isaiah 59:17Isaiah 63:15Ezekiel 5:13Ezekiel 20:9Zechariah 1:14John 2:17

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Isaiah 37:32Isaiah 18:7Exodus 19:20Isaiah 8:18Isaiah 24:23Isaiah 31:4

(32) Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
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Isaiah 8:7Isaiah 8:8Isaiah 8:9Isaiah 8:10Isaiah 10:24Isaiah 10:25Isaiah 10:28Isaiah 10:29Isaiah 10:30Isaiah 10:31Isaiah 10:32Isaiah 37:33

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Isaiah 37:33Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19II Kings 17:4II Kings 13:17

(33) By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
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II Kings 19:28II Kings 19:36

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(34) For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
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II Kings 20:6Psalms 46:5Psalms 46:6Psalms 48:2Psalms 48:3Psalms 48:4Psalms 48:5Psalms 48:6Psalms 48:7Psalms 48:8Isaiah 31:5Isaiah 38:6

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Isaiah 37:35II Kings 20:6I Kings 11:32I Kings 11:13Psalms 69:6Psalms 143:11

(35) And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
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Exodus 12:29Daniel 5:30I Thessalonians 5:2I Thessalonians 5:3Exodus 12:30II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:12I Chronicles 21:16II Chronicles 32:21II Chronicles 32:22Psalms 35:5Psalms 35:6

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Isaiah 37:36Exodus 14:20I Samuel 29:10Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 19:2

(36) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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II Kings 19:7II Kings 19:28II Kings 19:33Genesis 10:11Genesis 10:12Jonah 1:2Jonah 3:2Jonah 3:3Jonah 3:4Jonah 3:5Jonah 3:6Jonah 3:7

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Isaiah 37:37II Kings 17:4II Kings 19:8Isaiah 37:8

(37) And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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II Kings 19:10II Kings 18:5II Kings 18:30Deuteronomy 32:31II Chronicles 32:14II Chronicles 32:19Isaiah 37:37Isaiah 37:38II Kings 19:7II Chronicles 32:21Genesis 8:4Jeremiah 51:27

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Isaiah 37:38Genesis 36:35I Kings 16:10II Kings 12:21II Kings 15:10II Kings 15:14

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