{"id":1991,"date":"2012-07-31T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T16:35:32","slug":"isaiah-37-and-spread-it-out-before-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"(Isaiah 37) And spread it out before the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying:\u00a0\u201cO Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.\u00a0Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Then the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses\u2014all dead.\u00a0So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.\u00a0Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hezekiah spread the letter out before the Lord, and prayed earnestly.\u00a0 The Lord answered mightily.\u00a0 What a wonderful picture of faith and trust in the living God!<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying:\u00a0\u201cO Lord of hosts, God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Isaiah 37) And spread it out before the Lord&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}