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For those who may not be too spiritually attuned, pardon me. Today I have a pastoral message for our nation. Slightly over a month ago, on the eighth day of August, while on my regular personal Bible reading, I came to the story about Hezekiah king of Judah and Sennacherib king of Assyria. Hezekiah was an upright king who instituted bold reforms in the land. He got rid of idolatry and stamped out corruption.
But, in the fourteenth year of his reign, Sennacherib attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. Because Assyria had superior military might, king Hezekiah opted to buy peace and safety for his people from Sennacherib. Therefore, Hezekiah gave Sennacherib all the silver found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace. Whereas one would imagine that with this, Sennacherib would have left Hezekiah and the nation of Judah alone, he did not.
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