DAY 195 Read Isaiah 36 and 37; 2 Chronicles 32:1-23.
Today's reading: In the parallel accounts of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, we notice again how God honored the faith of good King Hezekiah.
Memory gem: "Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back be the way by which thou camest" (Isaiah 37:28).
Thought for today:
In Isaiah 36 and 37 we read about Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and his invasion of the land of Judah. In spite of his great army, he had failed to take Jerusalem. Something happened to him which he did not record, but the Bible recorded it. Read it for yourself in 2 Kings 19:35 and Isaiah 37:36.
Sennacherib had returned to Nineveh, his capital, and in the official record of his campaign in the west he said concerning King Hezekiah, "As for himself, like a bird in a cage in his royal city Jerusalem, I shut him up."
Sennacherib made as good a story as he could out of the siege and simply said that he shut poor Hezekiah up like a bird in a cage. Actually, Hezekiah was reposing quite safely in his cage. But the Bible says that soon after Sennacherib's return to Nineveh after his failure in Judah, two of his sons assassinated him (see 2 Kings 19:37).
Another son, who was his successor, tells of this event in the following words from an official inscription: "In the month Nisanu, a favorable day, complying with their exalted command, I made my joyful entrance into the royal palace, the awesome place, wherein abides the fate of kings. A firm determination fell upon my brothers. They forsook the gods and turned to their deeds of violence, plotting evil...To gain a kingship they slew Sennacherib, their father." Again history proves that God spoke the truth. The Bible is literally true in its statements of historical facts.
It is good for us Christians--yes, for all men--to read the Bible over again from cover to cover, and to read it often. We are glad to see that it is literally true; but above all, that it presents to us the Lord Jesus Christ, the only, but all-sufficient, hope of a lost and ruined world.
Today's reading: In the parallel accounts of the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, we notice again how God honored the faith of good King Hezekiah.
Memory gem: "Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back be the way by which thou camest" (Isaiah 37:28).
Thought for today:
In Isaiah 36 and 37 we read about Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and his invasion of the land of Judah. In spite of his great army, he had failed to take Jerusalem. Something happened to him which he did not record, but the Bible recorded it. Read it for yourself in 2 Kings 19:35 and Isaiah 37:36.
Sennacherib had returned to Nineveh, his capital, and in the official record of his campaign in the west he said concerning King Hezekiah, "As for himself, like a bird in a cage in his royal city Jerusalem, I shut him up."
Sennacherib made as good a story as he could out of the siege and simply said that he shut poor Hezekiah up like a bird in a cage. Actually, Hezekiah was reposing quite safely in his cage. But the Bible says that soon after Sennacherib's return to Nineveh after his failure in Judah, two of his sons assassinated him (see 2 Kings 19:37).
Another son, who was his successor, tells of this event in the following words from an official inscription: "In the month Nisanu, a favorable day, complying with their exalted command, I made my joyful entrance into the royal palace, the awesome place, wherein abides the fate of kings. A firm determination fell upon my brothers. They forsook the gods and turned to their deeds of violence, plotting evil...To gain a kingship they slew Sennacherib, their father." Again history proves that God spoke the truth. The Bible is literally true in its statements of historical facts.
It is good for us Christians--yes, for all men--to read the Bible over again from cover to cover, and to read it often. We are glad to see that it is literally true; but above all, that it presents to us the Lord Jesus Christ, the only, but all-sufficient, hope of a lost and ruined world.
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