Their gods and There's God

From the message King Sennacherib of Assyria

 sent to the Israelites in Judah and Jerusalem:

Know ye 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 mine hand? Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? Now therefore let not Hezekiah 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 mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah. He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech, unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them: that they might take the city. And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. 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 slew him there with the sword.-2 Chronicles 32:13-21***King Pekah was was the 18th king to rule over all of the Israelites in the northern nation of Israel in the Promised Land. During Pekah's reign, the Assyrians invaded the kingdom and King Tiglath-pileser, ruler of Assyria, began taking Israelites to Assyria. During the reign of King Hoshea, the 19th king to rule the northern nation, the Assyrians conquered the royal city, Samaria, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. King Hezekiah was the 12th king to rule Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land. King Sennacherib, the reigning ruler of Assyria, wanted Judah. Hezekiah took the silver from the royal palace and the temple of the Lord, and took the gold that covered the temple's doors and doorposts, and gave them to Sennacherib. Hezekiah stopped the water immediately outside of Jerusalem, the royal city, and made repairs in the wall surrounding the city, and made certain that weapons, towers, and another wall of defense were built. Hezekiah told the Israelites not to fear the Assyrians because the Lord God would fight for the people of Judah. Sennacherib sent 3 top officials and an army to Jerusalem to speak to Hezekiah and the rest of the Israelites. According to Sennacherib, the Israelites should not trust in the Lord God to save them because it was the Lord God who told Sennacherib to destroy Judah. Another part of Sennacherib's message explained that since none of the gods of the other nations conquered by the Assyrians had been able to save their people, the Israelites should not think that the God they worshiped would be able to save them. After Hezekiah's officials spoke to him, Hezekiah sent 2 officials and the top priests to see Isaiah, a prophet of the Lord God. Meanwhile, Sennacherib learned that the Egyptians were coming to help Hezekiah. Sennacherib sent an envoy with a letter expressing the same messages previously sent. In the temple of the Lord, Hezekiah spread the letter before the Lord God and prayed. Isaiah delivered a message of assurance from the Lord God to Hezekiah. Afterwards, the Lord God sent his angel, and the angel put 185,000 of the Assyrians to death. Sennacherib and the other Assyrian survivors fled. Sometime thereafter, 2 of Sennacherib's sons killed Sennacherib while Sennacherib was in the temple of his god. Hezekiah's great-great-grandson Jehoiakim (Eliakim) was the 17th king to rule Judah. During Jehoiakim's reign, the Babylonians (Chaldeans) invaded Judah and Jerusalem and King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler of Babylon, began looting the temple of the Lord. During the reign of Jehoiakim's son King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah/Coniah), the 18th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians took more prominent Israelites to Babylon. During the reign of Jehoiakim's brother King Zedekiah (Mattaniah) the 19th king to rule Judah, the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, according to the will of the Lord God, due to the idolatry and other wickedness of the Israelites. Over 500 years after Israelites began returning to Judah and Jerusalem, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah, the birth tribe of Judah's kings, to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Isaiah 36:1-39:8, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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