Positivity Successor - Episode 367 - Positivity Successor (2 Kings 18-19)

Episode Date: June 27, 2026

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Hey, positive people. Welcome to positivity successor. This goes from Monday through Sunday, including holidays every season, every year, including leap year. Thanks to tune to the light changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Have a positive day. Welcome to positivity successor episode 367. Continue now with the Bible. Let's get into it. Hezekia King of Judah 18. In the third year of Hoshio, son of Elis. King of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah began to reign.

He went 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem, 29 years. His mother's name was Abijah, daughter of Zicharya. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done. He had he removed the high places smashed the sacred stones It cut down the ashtra of poles He broke into pieces

The bronze snake Moses Had made For up To that time The Israelites had been Burning incense to it It was called Nahashtan

Nahasthan Ezekia trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to the Lord and did not cease to follow him. He kept the commands the Lord had given Moses, and the Lord was with them. He was successful in whatever he undertook.

He rebelled against the king of Assyria. He did not serve him. From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory. In King Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh ear of Hoshia, son of Allah, king of Israel, Shalmanizir, king of Assyria, marched against Samaria, and laid siege to it. At the end of three years, the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekia's sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshia, King of Israel.

The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Hala. And Ghazen goes on on the. Haber River and in towns of the Mideast. This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant. All that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out. In the 14th year of King Hezekia's reign,

Sena Cherub, King of Assyria, attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. So Hezekiah, King of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria al-Lahish. I've done wrong, withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand to me. The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekia, King of Judah, 300 towns of silver and 30 talents of gold. So Hezekia gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace. At this time, Hezekia, king of Judah, stripped off the gold with which he had covered

the doors and doorposts of the temple of the Lord and gave it to the the king of Assyria. Santa Tirib threatens Jerusalem. The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer, and his field commander with the large army.

From Lakesh to King Hezekia at Jerusalem, they came up to Jerusalem and stopped out the aqueduct of the upper pool. on the road to the wash washerman's field they called for the king and alayakim son of the hill the palace administrator shabna the secretary and jojojo son of assap the recorder

The field commander said to them, tell Hezekia, this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says. On what are you basing this confidence of yours? You say you have strategy and military strength, but you speak only empty words on whom are you defending that you rebel against me. look now you are depending on Egypt that splintered reed of a staff which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him and if you say to me we are depending on the Lord our God isn't he the one who high places and altars Hezekia 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'll give you 2,000 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 with that word from the Lord. The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it. Then, Eliakim, son of Hilichai and

Shepna and Joa said to the field commander, please speak to your servants and Aram make 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 men sitting on the wall? Who like you will have to eat their own filth 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 Hezekia persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says the Lord will surely deliver us. The city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. do not listen to Hezekia This is what the king of Assyria says Make peace with me And come out to me Then every one of you will eat from his own vine

And fig tree And drink water from his own sister 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 Ezekia For he is misleading you When he says The Lord will deliver us Has the God of any nation Never delivered his land From the hand of the king of Assyria

Where are the gods of Hamoth and Arpad were the gods of Sepharvame, Hanna and Iva. Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? Who of all the gods of these countries have 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 to not answer him

then Eliakim son of Hilagaya the palace administrator Shemna the secretary and Joa son of Asap the recorder went to Hezekia with their

clothes torn and told him what the field commander had said and that's what we're going to stop will pick back up with Jerusalem's deliverance foretold 19. People in Bible times. Hezekia. Hezekia was just 25 years old when he became king of Judah. The two southern tribes after Israel divided,

because Hezekia trusted in God and faithfully followed him. God made Hezekia successful in everything he did. Hezekia ruled Judah at the time. time of the, at the time the Assyrians destroyed the kingdom of Israel. Although the Assyrians tried to invade Judah, they were not successful because Judah followed God. Thanks for your turn to interesting Bowery. Another interesting Bowery, another episode positive to your successor. Remember to look back of the reflections at your souls in the mirror. Tell the beautiful and handsome people out there because you're a work in progress and will get to you.

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