And he shall pass by the valley, and shall arrive at Aiath; fear shall seize upon Ramah, the city of Saul.

Madmenah also is amazed, and the inhabitants of Gebim.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, they deserted the [right] ways, and went in [through the] byways; they went in crooked paths.

DALETH. The ways of Zion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast. All her gates are ruined. Her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.

And Hezekiah king of Judah sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians to Lachish, saying, I have offended; depart from me: whatsoever you shall lay upon me, I will bear. And the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah king of Judah [a tribute of] three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.

At that time Hezekiah cut off [the gold from] the doors of the temple, and [from] the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah [had] overlaid with gold, and gave it to the king of the Assyrians.

then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? And have I [not] taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria?

For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I also do to Jerusalem and her idols.

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judah, and took them.

And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of the Assyrians came up against the strong cities of Judah, and took them.

For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.

And I will shake the inhabited cities; and I will take with My hand all the world as a nest; and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape Me, or contradict Me.

And the Philistine said, Behold, I have defied the armies of Israel this very day: give me a man, and we will both of us fight in single combat.

[This translation omits this verse.]

You have said, (but [they are] mere words) [I have] counsel and strength for war. Now then, in whom do you trust, that you have revolted from me?

See now, are you trusting for yourself on this broken staff of reed, [even] upon Egypt? Whosoever shall lean upon it, it shall even go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

His ways are profane at all times; Your judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

saying: "A certain judge was in a certain city, who did not fear God nor have regard for men.

And he did not want to for a time; but afterward he said within himself, 'although I do not fear God, nor have regard for man,