Another retelling. This time we are retold the story of the battle between Hezekiah, who had God on his side and the king of Assyria, who didn't.
The king of Assyria is trying to tell the people how absolutely redonkulous it is to follow Hezekiah. A man who claims to be getting marching order from God. A man who has taken down all the alters and has people praying to one God?
The king of Assyriah then took up a letter writing campaign against God.
God helped Hez, and he kinda got a little big for is britches. God humbled him a little and he straightened up. He dies and his takes over, at 12 yrs old. He rebuilds the alters to Baals. He builds alters INSIDE the churches. He burns his children as sacrifices and sets the dreaded carved images also inside of the houses of God. This guy is the worst yet, wouldn't you say?!
God tries to talk and no one will listen. He takes action and they all cry out for help. Ain't that always the case. The king cleans up his act and dies. His son Amon is in power. He goes right back to the evil ways and is killed by his servants, who are then killed by the people o' the land.
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In this reading we see that after God healed Hezekiah, Hezekiah didn't give God the glory for it, he became proud in his own heart as though he had "healed" himself. Why the publishers of this Bible failed to see that as the reason that things went badly for Hezekiah after his healing I don't understand. God's will cannot be altered. It will be done. We can alter how He achieves that by prayer, etc. And we can cause Him to change how he accomplishes His will because of our own free will, but the outcome will be the same. Hezekiah did not alter God's will, nor did God heal him just to let bad things happen to him afterwards as a way of "showing" him who's boss. No, the fact is (as it is clearly written in this text, which to me is more important than the publisher's or Martin Luther's opinion) is that "Hezekiah did not make return [to the Lord] according to the benefit done to him, for his heart became proud [at such a spectacular response to his prayer]; therefore there was wrath upon him...".
I'd like to point out though, that although Hezekiah had done such abominable things, God still forgave him and blessed him greatly.
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