# God Helps Out King Hezekiah - The Book of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 1 Jan 2024, 11 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 121. Learn how Hezekiah prepared Jerusalem for an impending attack by King Sennacherib of Assyria, cutting off water supplies and fortifying the city. Hezekiah's inspiring speech to his soldiers highlights his unwavering trust in God against overwhelming odds. The tension escalates as Sennacherib taunts the people of Jerusalem, challenging their faith and their king. Witness the power of prayer as Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah seek God's intervention, leading to a miraculous deliverance. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Dear God, help us to remember today that we don't
[0:03] Speaker 1: have to try to get through hard times on our own.
[0:05] Speaker 1: It's through your strength that we can face our.
[0:06] Speaker 2: Battles and find victory.
[0:29] Speaker 1: Help us to honor and obey you like King Hezekiah
[0:33] Speaker 1: and to put all our trust in you and you alone.
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[1:14] Speaker 4: God helps out King Hezekiah. In our last story, King
[1:19] Speaker 4: Hezekiah became the king and did right in God's eyes.
[1:24] Speaker 4: He had the Levites cleanse the temple and gathered the
[1:27] Speaker 4: people to celebrate Passover. In this story, Sennacherib will attack
[1:32] Speaker 4: Judah and Hezekiah will cry out to God, as inspired
[1:37] Speaker 4: by 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles.
[1:44] Speaker 2: Hi there, welcome back. This is Julia Sadler.
[1:47] Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Kids Bible in a Year podcast. Today,
[1:51] Speaker 1: God is going to show his power and it will
[1:53] Speaker 1: be awesome. He will bless Hezekiah and the people of
[1:58] Speaker 1: Judah for being faithful and true to him. And we're
[2:01] Speaker 1: going to learn a lot from this king about how
[2:05] Speaker 1: to face our own battles. So listen carefully.
[2:12] Speaker 4: King Hezekiah continued to be a man that obeyed God.
[2:17] Speaker 4: The Lord continued to help him in his time of
[2:19] Speaker 4: need and also blessed him. In fact, one day, the
[2:24] Speaker 4: king of Assyria, King Sennacherib, decided to order the invasion
[2:28] Speaker 4: and attack Judah. King Hezekiah got word of this and
[2:32] Speaker 4: knew that Jerusalem was going to be attacked next. That's
[2:36] Speaker 4: when he ordered all of the springs that provided water
[2:39] Speaker 4: to places outside of Jerusalem to be cut off so
[2:43] Speaker 4: that when the Assyrian army came to Jerusalem, they wouldn't
[2:46] Speaker 4: have any water for the soldiers to drink. After that,
[2:50] Speaker 4: King Hezekiah ordered began to prepare Jerusalem for the attack.
[2:54] Speaker 4: He gathered workers to repair any parts of the city
[2:57] Speaker 4: wall that was destroyed and then ordered that their walls
[3:01] Speaker 4: be built high to protect the city. They also secured
[3:05] Speaker 4: a lot of weapons and shields for Judah's army. After
[3:08] Speaker 4: all of the soldiers were dressed and ready for battle
[3:11] Speaker 4: at any minute, King Hezekiah turned to them and said,
[3:15] Speaker 4: Don't worry about King Sennacherib and his army. They don't
[3:19] Speaker 4: rely on God to fight for them. They believe that
[3:22] Speaker 4: they can fight and win on their own. We, on
[3:25] Speaker 4: the other hand, trust in the Almighty God. Do not
[3:29] Speaker 4: be afraid. Once King Sennacherib and his army were on
[3:34] Speaker 4: the outside of Jerusalem, he made sure that King Hezekiah
[3:38] Speaker 4: and the people knew by sending a message in Hebrew, saying,
[3:42] Speaker 4: My name is Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and my army
[3:46] Speaker 4: has surrounded Jerusalem. You are all trapped. Don't believe a
[3:51] Speaker 4: word your king is telling you. You are not strong
[3:54] Speaker 4: enough to beat my army, and your god won't help
[3:56] Speaker 4: you either. Didn't your king destroy all of the altars
[4:01] Speaker 4: and force you all to worship in one place? Your
[4:04] Speaker 4: king is crazy. King Sennacherib taunted the people. Then he continued, saying,
[4:10] Speaker 4: There has been no country that has been able to
[4:13] Speaker 4: defeat Assyria. Where were their gods? Clearly they didn't help
[4:18] Speaker 4: them fight. So why do you believe that your God
[4:20] Speaker 4: will do any different? King Hezekiah heard this message and
[4:24] Speaker 4: immediately went before God to pray and beg for help.
[4:28] Speaker 4: He even asked a prophet named Isaiah to pray to
[4:32] Speaker 4: the Lord as well. The Lord heard his prayer and
[4:35] Speaker 4: sent an angel to kill every single soldier, a part
[4:39] Speaker 4: of the Assyrian army. King Sennacherib was shocked that all
[4:44] Speaker 4: of his soldiers were dead. He returned back to Assyria
[4:47] Speaker 4: defeated and embarrassed. When he went inside one of the
[4:51] Speaker 4: temples to pray to his god, a few of his
[4:54] Speaker 4: own sons entered as well and killed him. King Sennacherib
[4:58] Speaker 4: was no more, and all was well in Jerusalem again.
[5:07] Speaker 2: Victory! Long live King Hezekiah!
[5:11] Speaker 1: As today's story opens, we find Hezekiah continuing to obey
[5:16] Speaker 1: and honor God in all he does. Unlike so many
[5:20] Speaker 1: other kings who started off doing the right thing but
[5:23] Speaker 1: ended their lives in idol worship and disobedience, Hezekiah remained
[5:28] Speaker 1: true to God, and God kept helping him. But even
[5:33] Speaker 1: though God was so pleased with Judah and the way
[5:36] Speaker 1: they had turned back to him, they were still under attack.
[5:41] Speaker 2: The king of.
[5:42] Speaker 1: Assyria was after them and his army was nothing to
[5:45] Speaker 1: play around with.
[5:47] Speaker 2: It was big, strong, and no other nation was able
[5:51] Speaker 2: to defeat them. Isn't that interesting?
[5:54] Speaker 1: Even though Judah was honoring God, he still allowed the
[5:58] Speaker 1: Assyrians to come after them. In the same way, when
[6:02] Speaker 1: we are doing the right thing and living in a
[6:06] Speaker 1: way that pleases God, we will be attacked too. Not
[6:10] Speaker 1: by big giant armies with swords and chariots, but from
[6:13] Speaker 1: another enemy who is just as bad.
[6:16] Speaker 2: Do you know who that is?
[6:19] Speaker 1: Satan loves to distract us from doing things God's way
[6:23] Speaker 1: and tempt us to do things our way. Sometimes bad
[6:27] Speaker 1: things will happen or we will just feel like nothing
[6:30] Speaker 1: is going our way. We might even feel like following
[6:34] Speaker 1: God is too hard and it's not working out for us.
[6:39] Speaker 2: Don't believe it.
[6:40] Speaker 1: Do you remember what King Hezekiah said to his people?
[6:44] Speaker 1: He said, do not worry. We have the king of
[6:48] Speaker 1: the universe on our side. The Assyrians only tried to
[6:53] Speaker 1: do things their way.
[6:54] Speaker 2: God is going to take care of us. I promise.
[6:58] Speaker 2: Just trust him.
[7:00] Speaker 1: Hezekiah then did something very smart and cut off the
[7:04] Speaker 1: water supply so the Assyrian soldiers would have nothing to drink.
[7:09] Speaker 1: He built some high city walls, got the armor and
[7:13] Speaker 1: weapons ready, and prepared his men for battle. And again,
[7:17] Speaker 1: just like Hezekiah's soldiers prepared for battle, we can too.
[7:23] Speaker 1: Ephesians 6 tells us all about the kind of armor
[7:27] Speaker 1: we need to put on every day. This is not
[7:30] Speaker 1: actual armor like these soldiers, but it's doing things like
[7:34] Speaker 1: reading God's word, having faith, and trusting in God to
[7:39] Speaker 1: save us. When we put on this armor, we are
[7:43] Speaker 1: protected from our biggest enemy. Well, next, the king of
[7:47] Speaker 1: Assyria tried to scare Judah's army and convince them they
[7:51] Speaker 1: would never win. That's when Hezekiah did another smart thing.
[7:57] Speaker 2: He prayed.
[7:58] Speaker 1: He knew just where to go. And not only did
[8:01] Speaker 1: he pray, he asked Isaiah, a great prophet in that.
[8:05] Speaker 2: Day, to pray for him too. Hezekiah is giving us
[8:09] Speaker 2: a great reminder here. Sometimes putting on our armor is
[8:13] Speaker 2: great and knowing what to do helps.
[8:16] Speaker 1: But we have to remember above all else that we
[8:19] Speaker 1: can face our enemies only with God's help. That means
[8:24] Speaker 1: talking to God, asking him for help, and telling him
[8:28] Speaker 1: that we trust in him alone.
[8:30] Speaker 2: Because it's only through his strength that we have true victory.
[8:35] Speaker 2: So let's recap. What do we.
[8:37] Speaker 1: Need to do when we are following God but we
[8:40] Speaker 1: feel like we are being attacked?
[8:42] Speaker 2: When things are.
[8:43] Speaker 1: Awful or hard and we don't know if we can
[8:46] Speaker 1: make it?
[8:47] Speaker 2: We do what Hezekiah did. We put on our armor.
[8:52] Speaker 1: See Ephesians 6. Go ahead and read that sometime today.
[8:57] Speaker 1: We pray and we ask others to pray for us.
[9:00] Speaker 1: Then we wait, trusting in the one true God, our God.
[9:05] Speaker 1: So the story goes, God heard Hezekiah's prayer and gave
[9:10] Speaker 1: victory to his people that day.
[9:12] Speaker 2: The king of Assyria was no more, and all was
[9:16] Speaker 2: well again in Jerusalem.
[9:19] Speaker 1: God blessed and honored his people for trusting in him alone.
[9:24] Speaker 2: Thanks for listening today.
[9:25] Speaker 1: Next time, Hezekiah is going to get some tough news,
[9:29] Speaker 1: but it's not going to keep him from trusting God
[9:32] Speaker 1: and loving God's word. Remember, the Bible is the best
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