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Chapter LI.
By this news Sennacherim
was led to return in order to defend his own territories, and he gave
up the war, at the same time murmuring and crying out that victory was
snatched from him the victor. He also sent letters to Ezekias,
declaring, with many insulting words, that he, after settling his own
affairs, would speedily return for the destruction of Judæa. But
Ezekias, in no wise disturbed by these threats, is said to have prayed
to God that he would not allow the so great insolence of this man to
pass unavenged. Accordingly, in the same night, an angel attacking the
camp of the Assyrians, caused328
the death of
many thousand men. The king in terror fled to the town of Nineveh, and
being there slain by his sons, met with an end worthy of himself. At
the same time, Ezekias, sick in body, lay suffering from disease. And
when Isaiah had announced to him in the words of the Lord that the end
of his life was at hand, the king is related to have wept; and thus he
got fifteen years added to his life. These coming to an end, he died in
the twenty-ninth year of his reign, and left the kingdom to his son
Manasse. He, degenerating much from his father, forsook God, and took
to the practice of impious worship; and being, as a punishment for
this, delivered into the power of the Assyrians, he was by his
sufferings constrained to acknowledge his error, and exhorted the
people that, forsaking their idols, they should worship God. He
accomplished nothing worthy of special mention, but reigned for
fifty-five years. Then Amos his son obtained the kingdom, but possessed
it only two years. He was the heir of his father’s impiety, and
showed himself regardless of God: being entrapped by some stratagems of
his friends, he perished.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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