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<p class="tab-1">When the prophet had condemned Ephraim for lies and deceit he comforted himself with this, that Judah yet “ruled with God, and was faithful with the Most Holy,” <a class="bibleref" title="Hos.11.12" href="/passage/?search=Hos.11.12">Hos. 11:12</a>. It was a very melancholy view which the last chapter gave us of the desolations of Israel; but this chapter shows us the affairs of Judah in a good posture at the same time, that it may appear God has not quite cast off the seed of Abraham, <a class="bibleref" title="Rom.11.1" href="/passage/?search=Rom.11.1">Rom. 11:1</a>. Hezekiah is here upon the throne, I. Reforming his kingdom, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.1-2Kgs.18.6" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.1-2Kgs.18.6">2 Kgs. 18:1-6</a>. II. Prospering in all his undertakings (<a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.7,2Kgs.18.8" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.7,2Kgs.18.8"><span class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.7">2 Kgs. 18:7</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.8">8</span></a>), and this at the same time when the ten tribes were led captive, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.9-2Kgs.18.12" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.9-2Kgs.18.12">2 Kgs. 18:9-12</a>. III. Yet invaded by Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.13" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.13">2 Kgs. 18:13</a>. 1. His country put under contribution, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.14-2Kgs.18.16" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.14-2Kgs.18.16">2 Kgs. 18:14-16</a>. 2. Jerusalem besieged, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.17" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.17">2 Kgs. 18:17</a>. 3. God blasphemed, himself reviled, and his people solicited to revolt, in a virulent speech made by Rabshakeh, <a class="bibleref" title="2Kgs.18.18-2Kgs.18.37" href="/passage/?search=2Kgs.18.18-2Kgs.18.37">2 Kgs. 18:18-37</a>. But how well it ended, and how much to the honour and comfort of our great reformer, we shall find in the next chapter.</p>
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