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2 Kings 19:14

2 Kings 19:14 is verse 14 of 2 Kings chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

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King James Version

And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

World English Bible

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.

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2 Kings 19:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

13 Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”

14 So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

16 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 37:14

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

1 Kings 8:28

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

1 Kings 8:29

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8:30

Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

Ezra 9:5

At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

Psalms 74:10

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Psalms 74:11

Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!

Psalms 91:1

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalms 91:2

I will say to the LORD, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalms 123:1

I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

Psalms 123:2

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

Psalms 123:3

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

Psalms 123:4

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

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