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This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.

בּ֖וֹ (בּ֖) b “in”בְּיַ֖ד (בְּ) be. “in”

Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

בִּתְלַאשָּֽׂר׃ (בִּ) bi “[were] in”

And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

בָּאֵ֑שׁ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will c

בְּיַ֣ד (בְּ) be. “by”בְּרֹ֥ב (בְּ) be. “with”

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

בְּכַף־ (בְּ) be. “with”

Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

בְאָזְנָ֑י (בְ) ve. “in”בְּאַפֶּ֗ךָ (בְּ) be. “in”בִּשְׂפָתֶ֔יךָ (בִּ) bi “on”בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ (בַּ) ba. “by the”בָּֽהּ׃ (בָּֽ) Ba “by”

And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of t

וּבַשָּׁנָ֥ה (בַ) va. “in the”וּבַשָּׁנָ֣ה (בַ) va. “in the”

By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.

בַּדֶּ֥רֶךְ (בַּ) ba. “by the”בָּ֣הּ (בָּ֣) ba “by”

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּמַחֲנֵ֣ה (בְּ) be. “in”בַבֹּ֔קֶר (בַ) va. “in the”

So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

And it came about, when he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to death with the sword; and they went in flight into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son became king in his place.

בַחֶ֔רֶב (בַ) va. “with the”

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order, for your death is near.

בַּיָּמִ֣ים (בַּ) ba “in the”

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

בֶּֽאֱמֶת֙ (בֶּֽ) be. “in”וּבְלֵבָ֣ב (בְ) ve. “with”בְּעֵינֶ֖יךָ (בְּ) be. “in”

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.

בַּיּוֹם֙ (בַּ) ba “on the”

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

בַּיּ֥וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”

Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.

בַּֽ֠מַּעֲלוֹת (בַּֽ֠) Ba. “on the”בְּמַעֲל֥וֹת (בְּ) be. “on”

At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil of great price, and the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores; there was nothing in all his house or hi

בְּאֽוֹצְרֹתָ֑יו (בְּ) be. “in”בְּבֵית֖וֹ (בְּ) be. “in”וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “in”

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

בְּבֵיתֶ֑ךָ (בְּ) be. “in”בְּבֵיתִי֙ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”בְּאֹצְרֹתָֽי׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

Truly, days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone, says the Lord.

בְּבֵיתֶ֗ךָ (בְּ) be. “[is] in”

And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

בְּהֵיכַ֖ל (בְּ) be. “in”

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

בְיָמָֽי׃ (בְ) ve. “in”

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

בְמָלְכ֔וֹ (בְ) ve. “when”בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

בְּבֵ֣ית (בְּ) be. “in”בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם (בִּ) bi. “in”