The Bible In Paintings: ASSYRIANS vs. KING HEZEKIAH

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

ASSYRIANS vs. KING HEZEKIAH
2^nd KINGS
CHAPTERS 18-19

In the third year of Hoshea king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)

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"Hezekiah Removes the Bronze Serpent"

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"Hezekiah Destroying the Brazen Serpent"

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"Hezekiah Destroys Idols"

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MATTHAEUS MERIAN the Elder
"King Hezekiah Destroys the Idols"

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MATTHAEUS MERIAN I
"King Hezekiah Orders the Idols Destroyed"

In King Hezekiah’s fourth year, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. So Samaria was captured. The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria. This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.

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DON LAWRENCE
"Samaria Falling to the Assyrians"

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DONNA C
"Assyrian Captivity"

The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem.

The field commander said, “Tell Hezekiah: “ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’ ”

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Now Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah: “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?”

Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Give ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God.

“It is true, O LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by men’s hands. Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God.

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Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria:
“He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp against it.
By the way that he came he will return;
he will not enter this city,
declares the LORD.
I will defend this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.”

That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons cut him down with the sword.

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Defeat of Sennacherib"

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GILLIS VAN VALCKENBORCH
"Defeat of Sennacherib"

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GUILLAM FORCHONDT
"At Night, an Angel of the Lord
Decimates the Assyrian Camp"

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PIETER DE JODE
"Angel Saves Jerusalem from the Assyrians"

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"Angel Destroys the Assyrian Army"

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TANZIO DA VARALLO
"La Battaglia di Sennacherib "

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Angel of the Lord Destroys the Army of Assyrians"

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KINGS & QUEENS
KING JEHU & JEZEBEL'S DEATH
BLOODY KING JEHU & QUEEN ATHALIA
BOY KING JOASH, DEAD QUEEN ATHALIA
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ISRAEL REJECTS GOD, GETS BANISHED
ASSYRIANS vs KING HEZEKIAH
HEZEKIAH'S ILLNESS & FOLLY
KING JOSIAH FINDS GOD & HIS WORD BABYLON CONQUERS JUDAH

[BBQToadRibs2]

I always enjoy these posts. Thanks for putting the work in!

[Red Badger]

HEZEKIAH was a relatively good king, but he made some really bad decisions....................

[Hebrews 11:6]

You are very welcome. Glad they work for you.

[Hebrews 11:6]

relatively good...but he made some really bad decisions

Sounds like you could be describing many of us.

[left that other site]

In #2, was the servant who destroyed the bronze serpent a Plumber, by any chance?

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan; and happy ‘approaching weekend’ to all.
Great story, wonderful paintings; and what a lesson indeed. Thank you Dan, for the hours of searching, editing and posting =:^)

[Hebrews 11:6]

I wondered which of you wags would say that.

♫It had to be you....♫

[InkStone]

“In #2, was the servant who destroyed the bronze serpent a Plumber, by any chance?”
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Wait... they had that, back then?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Entirely my pleasure, Leon. No one else gets to have the immense fun doing this.

[left that other site]

You mean...you set us up?

[left that other site]

Wait... they had that, back then?

Well, the serpent WAS made of bronze. Plumbers work with brass and bronze all the time. :-)

[Hebrews 11:6]

I’ll never tell.

[jjotto]

A traditional Jewish take on Hezekiah:

https://www.jewishhistory.org/the-messiah-who-was-not/

[etabeta]

Good morning and thank you, Dan! I read that archaeologists found Hezekiah’s royal seal in 2010 in an area at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He made good and bad choices, just like all humans make.

[Hebrews 11:6]

What an awesome thing it is, Alba, to have one’s “good and bad choices” memorialized for all time in Holy Writ.

[texas booster]

Very interesting history lesson.

Tho I suspect that the writers of the Talmud are still looking for their Messiah.

And I truly believe that they will find Him.

[Hebrews 11:6]

they will find Him

He will find everyone, sooner or later, one way or the other.

[SisterK]

A lot of really good art today.
I am especially fond of 16, 21 and 26.