1. Thinking and Application
(1) Thinking
1. In the third year of Hoshea, son of King Elah of Israel, who ascended the throne and became king of Judah? How old was he when he ascended the throne? His mother is, who? 1/2
2. What did Hezekiah do? 3/4
3. How did Hezekiah rely on Jehovah? 5/8
4. What happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah? Why does this happen? 9/12
5. What happened in Hezekiah’s fourteenth year? How did King Hezekiah of Judah respond? 13/16
6. Where did the king of Assyria send a large army to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem? Who are the generals? Who came out when they were scolding? 17/18
7. What did Rabshaki say? 19/25
8. What did Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna and Joah ask of Rabshakeh? How did Rabshaki respond? 26/27
9. So what did Rabshakeh shout in the Jewish language? 28/35
10. Why are the people silent? Who came to King Hezekiah now? What did they say? 36/37
(2) Application
Summary Why was the king of Judah afraid of the king of Assyria? In what aspects are they manifested?
2. Bible Reading Outline
"History of Zekekiah, King of Judah 1"
(1) King Zekekiah 1-12
< p> 1. Time(1) Accession to the throne - the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, King of Israel
(2) Age - twenty-five years old
(3) Duration - twenty-nine years as king in Jerusalem
2. Relatives
(1) Father - Ahaz
(2) Mother - Abi, daughter of Zechariah
3. What he did
(1) What is right in the eyes of the Lord
(2 ) Imitate what David did
(3) Abolish idols in high places
(4) Rely on the true God wholeheartedly
(5) Reluctance to serve Assyria
(6) Defeating the Philistines
4. What we saw
(1) Assyria’s first victory Attacking the Northern Kingdom of Israel
①The fourth year of Zehekiah
②The seventh year of Hoshea
(2) Assyria destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel for the second time
①The sixth year of Xihejia
②The ninth year of Hoshea
(2) Xihejia king his kingdom 13--37
1. Assyria attacked the cities of Judah—Zhekiah donated money
2. Assyria attacked Jerusalem—Zhekiah banned the people from speaking
3. Thoughts and answers
1. Who became king of Judah in the third year of Hoshea, son of King Elah of Israel? How old was he when he ascended the throne? Who is his mother? 1/2
Answer: ① In the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, king of Judah, came to the throne.
② He was twenty-five years old when he ascended the throne and reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years.
③His mother’s name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
2. What did Hezekiah do? 3/4
Answer: Hezekiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord, imitating all the practices of his father David. He destroyed the high places, destroyed the pillars, chopped down the wooden idols, and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because even then the Israelites were still burning incense to the bronze serpent. Hezekiah called the bronze serpent a bronze piece (or "people called the bronze serpent a bronze image").
3. How did Hezekiah rely on Jehovah? 5/8
Answer: Hezekiah relied on the Lord, the God of Israel, and there was no one like him among the kings of Judah before and after him. For he clung to the LORD and never departed from it, keeping the commandments of the LORD which he commanded Moses. The Lord is with him, and he prospers wherever he goes. He rebelled and refused to serve the king of Assyria. Hezekiah attacked the Philistines as far as Gaza and all its borders, from the watchtowers to the fortified cities.
4. What happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah? Why does this happen? 9/12
Answer: ① In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up to besiege Samaria. After three years, the city was captured. In the sixth year of Hezekiah and the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was captured. The king of Assyria took the Israelites captive to Assyria and settled them in Halah and by the river Habor in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
② Because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God and broke his covenant, which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded them to keep.
5. What happened in Hezekiah’s fourteenth year? How did King Hezekiah of Judah respond? 13/16
Answer: ① In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up to attack all the fortified cities in Judah and captured them.
② King Hezekiah of Judah sent people to Lachish to see the king of Assyria and said, "I have sinned! Please leave me. I will bear whatever you punish me." So the king of Assyria punished me. Hezekiah king of Judah had three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
So Hezekiah gave him all the money that was in the temple of the LORD and in the treasury of the king’s palace. At that time Hezekiah king of Judah scraped off the gold from the doors of the house of the LORD and the gold that he had overlaid on the pillars, and gave them to the king of Assyria.
6. Where did the king of Assyria send a large army to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem? Who are the generals? Who came out when they were scolding? 17/18
Answer: ①The king of Assyria sent a large army from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah.
②Tartan, Rabsaliah and Rabshah
③When they called for the king, there were Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Sheb the secretary. That and Joah, the recorder, son of Asaph, came out to meet them.
7. What did Rabshaki say? 19/25
Answer: Rabshakeh said: "Go and tell Hezekiah, 'This is what the great king of Assyria says: 'Where can you rely on? You say there is a war. I see that your counsel and power are nothing but lies. In whom did you trust to rebel against me? Behold, the rod in which you trust is a bruising reed; if anyone trusts in it, it will pierce him.
If you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God, will Hezekiah destroy the high places and the altars of God? And he said to the people of Judah and Jerusalem, "Shall you worship at this altar in Jerusalem? Now give the pledge to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, and I will see if you have enough men to ride them." Otherwise, how can you defeat the captain of the army who is the least of my lord's servants? Do you rely on the chariots and horsemen of Egypt? Is it not the will of the LORD that I come up to destroy this land? Destroy this land! '"
8. What did Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah ask of Rabshakeh? How did Rabshaki respond? 26/27
Answer: ① Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we Understand; do not speak to us in the language of Judah and reach the ears of the people in the city
② Rabshakeh said, "Did my lord send me to say these things to you and your lord only?" Words? Isn’t it also said to these people who sit on the city and want to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine with you? ”
9. So what did Rabshakeh shout in the language of the Jews? 28/35
Answer: Then the Rabshakeh stood and shouted in the language of Judah: “Listen to the words of the great king of Assyria. This is what the king says: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you out of my hand. And do not listen to Hezekiah, who told you to trust in the LORD, saying that the LORD will save us, and this city will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. ’ Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Be at peace with me and come out and surrender to me, and each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree, and drink from his own well.
But when I come and bring you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, of grain and vineyards, of olive trees and honey, that you may live, not As for death. Hezekiah counsels you, saying, The Lord will save us; do not listen to his voice.
Which of the gods of the nations could save his country from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where is the God of Hamath and Arbal? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, Shenar, and Eva? Did they deliver Samaria out of my hand? Which of the gods of these nations has delivered his kingdom out of my hand? Can the LORD deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? '"
10. Why were the people silent? Who came to King Hezekiah now? What did they say? 36/37
Answer: ①The people were silent. He didn't answer a word, because the king had commanded, "Don't answer him. ”
②Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the steward, Shebna the scribe, and Joiad son of Asaph the scribe came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn apart.
③Tell him what Rabshakeh said.
4. Application answer
Summary: Why is the king of Judah afraid of the king of Assyria?
Answer: ① Because in the sixth year of Hezekiah and the ninth year of King Hoshea of ??Israel, the king of Assyria took the Israelites captive to Assyria (18:9/11). In the fourteenth year of King Zekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria came up to attack all the fortified cities in Judah and captured them (18:13). At that time, Assyria was a large and powerful country, and the ten tribes of the northern kingdom had been occupied by Assyria. , the Israelites had been carried away into captivity by Assyria, and had seen their situation before the mighty nations, and had forgotten the power of God, because they had not obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and had broken His covenant, which Moses the LORD's servant commanded them to keep. .
②Hezekiah surrendered to the king of Assyria - admitted that he was guilty and was willing to pay the fine. In order to defend the last line of defense in Jerusalem, he humiliated the other party and proposed to pay tribute: King Hezekiah of Judah sent someone. He went to Lachish to see the king of Assyria and said, “I am guilty! Please leave me. I will bear whatever punishment you punish me.
So the king of Assyria fined Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Hezekiah gave him all the money that was in the temple of the LORD and in the treasury of the king's palace. At that time Hezekiah king of Judah He scraped off the gold from the door of the temple of the LORD and the gold that he had wrapped on the pillars, and gave them to the king of Assyria (18:14/16). Assyria mocked and insulted them and did not dare to refute, but they still called Assyria king. Servant (26)
Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we Understand; do not speak to us in the language of Judah to the ears of the people in the city. ” (18:26) The people remained silent and did not answer a word, because the king had commanded, “Don’t answer him.”
” (18:36