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2 Kings 18:17-19:1 “Walk by Faith” 2 Kings 18:17-19:1 “Walk By Faith” Faith: • An American missionary in Africa wanted to translate the English word faith into the local dialect. He could not find its equivalent. So he went to an old sage, who was himself a fine Christian, for help in rendering the needed word into understandable language. The old sage studied it, and finally said, “Does it not mean to hear with the heart?” 1 The ransom did not satisfy Sennacherib so he sent messengers to demand a complete surrender. 2 • 11 tonnes of silver • 1 tonnes of gold o 353,658 troy ounces of silver = $17 @ ounce = $6,012,186. 3 o 32,151 troy ounces of gold = $1,255 @ ounce = $40,349,505. 4 • They present their case to Hezekiah’s representatives – Vs. 17-27 • Then they present their case to all those that can hear them in Jerusalem – Vs. 28-37 Walking in FAITH Hebrews 11:1 (NLT) Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. 5 • It is not believing in something you know is not true. • Neither is faith a substitute for knowledge. • Christian faith operates in the realm of meaning, not in the realm of fact. Faith recognizes fact but it is not out to obtain, contradict, or prove facts. 1 G. Curtis Jones, 1000 Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1986), 127. 2 Thomas L. Constable, “2 Kings,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 574. 3 Silver price calculated on May 2, 2017 at https://www.jmbullion.com/charts/silver-prices/ 4 Gold price calculated on May 2, 2017 at https://www.jmbullion.com/charts/gold-price/# 5 Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2013), Heb 11:1. 2 Kings 18.17-19.1 1 o Saint Augustine knew this when he said, “I believe in order that I may understand.” 6 • Believing against all odds and against all who say differently. • Holding to the non-negotiables. • Not being swayed by circumstances • Knowing God’s promises are ALWAYS true. 17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. Isaiah 36:1–3 1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. 3 And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him. • They advanced by way of the road to the Fuller’s Field to the aqueduct of the Upper Pool that extended from the spring of Gihon to the field where the people washed their clothes. 7 ,(as pt.; Assyrian kabâsu, tread, (down כבס .S3526 TWOT946 GK3891]51 vb. (tread), wash (NH id.; Ph ָכּ ַבס] o highway of fuller’s ( = treader’s, washer’s) field Is ְמ ִס ַלּת ְשׂ ֵדה כוֹ ֵבס subjugate, kilšu, step, path, Dl)—Qal Pt. only + Lv 11:25 יְ ַכ ֵבּס .Gn 49:11 2 S 19:25, etc.; Impf ִכּ ֵבּס ;consec. Lv 13:6 + 11 times וְ ִכּ ֶבּס .K 18:17. Pi. Pf 2 = 36:2 ;7:3 Mal 3:2;—1. wash ְמ ַכ ְבּ ִסים .Je 4:14; Pt. pl ַכּ ְבּ ִסי .fs ;51:4 ַכּ ְבּ ֵסנִי .ψ 51:9, etc.; Imv. sf ְתּ ַכ ְבּ ֵסנִי .times; 2 ms. sf 16 garments (i.e. by treading) Ex 19:10, 14 (E), 2 S 19:25; fig. of Judah Gn 49:11; elsewhere chiefly P: Lv 6:20; in Lv 27 כ׳) + which = wash person) Lv 14:8, 9; 15:5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11) ָרחץ || ;+ Nu 8:9 ;15:11 ;34 ,13:6 ;28 ,11:25 ,Mal 3:2. † 2. wash person בּ ִֹרית ְמכ׳ times); Pt. = fuller (cf. Qal), only 3 ר׳ || ,times; in Nu 8 times 15 ר׳ || ,times .Pu. Pf† .( ִח ֵטּא ||) v 9 ;( ֵמ ָעוֹן + ;טהר ||) c. sf. ψ 51:4 ;4:14 ַכּ ְבּ ִסי ֵמ ָר ָעה ִל ֵבּ@ ;Je 2:22 ִאם ְתּ ַכ ְבּ ִסי ַבּנֶּ ֶתר .only poet. and fig Lv 13:55 after אַ ֲח ֵרי ֻה ַכּ ֵבּס ֶאת־ ַהנֶּ ַגע .consec. Lv 13:58; 15:17 be washed, of garment. †Hothp. (Ges 54, 3) Inf וְ ֻכ ַבּס the plague is washed out, so v 56.8 • The enemy knew the weakest point of entry into Jerusalem. • Find where the most defensless vulnerable will be and show up there. o The Fuller’s Fields 6 G. Curtis Jones, 1000 Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1986), 126–127. 7 Thomas L. Constable, “2 Kings,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 574. 8 Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver, and Charles Augustus Briggs, Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977), 460. o The rocks upon which the women and children would be washing their clothes! § Imagine the horror of Mothers and wives washing clothes with their children playing nearby and looking up to see the 185,000 strong Assyrian Army § Three of their greatest Captains on their steeds staring down at them. § Imagine the sound of the marching feet of 185,000 troops behind them! o It wouldn’t be long before Hezekiah would hear that the Army is at the Fuller’s fields! 18 And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. • Sennacherib’s top three men: o Tartan o Rabsaris o Rabshakeh • Hezekiah’s top three men: o Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, head of the household o Shebna the scribe o Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder • These are titles and not personal names: o Tartan = Assyrian supreme commander o Rabsaris = Assyrian Army chief officer o Rabshakeh = Assyrian field commander. o Eliakim, Hezekiah’s palace administrator o Shebna, Hezekiah’s secretary o Joah, Hezekiah’s recorder 9 19 Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust? 20 You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? 21 Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, 9 Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Distinct, “Be” Commentary Series (Colorado Springs, CO: Victor, 2002), 138. 2 Kings 18.17-19.1 3 it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’ • Remember: “Does it not mean to hear with the heart?” 10 • Rabshakeh – he thinks we all worship the same god o We don’t worship the Muslim god o We don’t worship the Hindu gods o We don’t worship the Mormon gods o We don’t worship Mary and we don’t worship Angels. • English idiom: “No good deed goes unpunished” John 10:32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” 2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan. 2 Chronicles 31:20–32:1 20 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and true before the LORD his God. 21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he prospered. 1 After these deeds of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah; he encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them over to himself. • Alexander Maclaren: “It is the standing puzzle of the Old Testament, how good men come to be troubled, and how bad men come to be prosperous.” 11 23 Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses — if you are able on your part to put riders on them! 24 How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your 10 G.
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