TBESH · H9009
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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/ה (ha) means “[the]” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: ha STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ה · ha · [the]
Prefix hé article: "the" for a subject, not object
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Page 127 of 222. 11071 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
Read word by wordThus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
Read word by wordthe Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.
Read word by wordSo the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
Read word by wordThey worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
Read word by wordTo this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
Read word by wordAnd you must always be careful to observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments He wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
Read word by wordDo not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,
Read word by wordBut they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
Read word by wordSo these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
Read word by wordAnd he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
Read word by wordHe removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
Read word by wordIn the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
Read word by wordIn the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
Read word by wordHezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
Read word by wordAt that time Hezekiah stripped the gold with which he had plated the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.
Read word by wordNevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
Read word by wordThen they called for the king. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.
Read word by wordThe Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
Read word by wordLook now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Read word by wordBut if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
Read word by wordFor how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
Read word by wordSo now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
Read word by wordThen Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
Read word by wordBut the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
Read word by wordThen the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
Read word by wordThis is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
Read word by wordDo not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
Read word by wordHas the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Read word by wordWho among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
Read word by wordBut the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
Read word by wordThen Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
Read word by wordOn hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
Read word by wordto tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
Read word by wordPerhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
Read word by wordSo the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
Read word by wordwho replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
Read word by wordSurely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
Read word by wordDid 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?
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordTruly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
Read word by wordAnd now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
Read word by wordThis is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
Read word by wordAnd this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Read word by wordAnd the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
Read word by wordSo this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
Read word by wordHe will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
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