Gods got other plans!

Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

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2 Kings 22

2 Chronicles 32

ISAIAH 22

 

Hezekiah is not panicking but he is trying his best to keep his people safe from the Assyrians. They are brutal people. They kill the army, then maim the remaining citizens as if to mark their territory… you can see why Hezekiah is wanting to do anything he can to spare his people from this terror. 

 

During this time God leads Hezekiah to prepare. 

Covers up the springs and brooks

Rebuilds the walls

Raised the towers

Made new weapons and shields 

He set up captains over the people

He encouraged them - For there are more with us than with him: “We have more power than they have. (These words he quotes from the prophet Elisha, 2 Kings 6:16.)

He rerouted the water

 

But even after all this prep… 

2 Kings 18:13-16, that Hezekiah unwisely and unsuccessfully tried to satisfy Sennacherib with gold and treasures from the temple.

 

He takes silver from the temple and strips gold from the doors of the temple: tendency to seek security through compromise -

compromise Gods Glory - MGLG

 * even at the cost of diminishing the visible honor due to God's house.

Then he goes to God with Isaiah and cry’s out.

 

God never reprimanded him for his work, or his effort. Scripture describes these actions as part of Hezekiah’s strategic and faithful preparation for the Assyrian invasion…

 

A pure heart, not Gods plan.

 

The Supernatural Intervention
In response to Hezekiah's prayer and the prophecy of Isaiah, the Bible records that the Angel of the Lord sweeps through the Assyrian camp. Sennacherib retreats to Nineveh, and Jerusalem is spared without a single arrow being fired.