WFRL: The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on

Duke Ellington
Caravan

The Mills Brothers
Caravan



Brian Setzer Orchestra
Caravan

Floatin' Powa News Service : Saved By Less Than Obsolete Zero

Elvis Costello
Less Than Zero

"Calling Mister Oswald
with the swastika tattoo,
there is a vacancy waiting
in the English voodoo"

The obsolete zeroes will possess the land & live in peace and prosperity.

~Psalm 37:11

The consistently righteous obsolete ones will possess the land & they will live there forever.
~Psalm 37:29

Blessed are the obsolete righteous zeroes for they shall inherit the earth
~Jewsus restating Tehillim as as recorded in Matisyahu 5:5

Syria has built a missile facility on the ruins of a nuclear reactor that Israel bombed in 2007

Top Syria-based Hamas leader secretly visits Gaza
How secret can it be if I am posting it here?

Iran looking to boost trade ties with Mexico

Ahmadinejad says Iran ready to help Iraq develop
Into what?

The Normalization Of Murder, Genocide And Terrorism

Man charged with mailing tainted blood to Obama

Bolton blasts Obama on Iran, Iraq

If indeed you had a genuine opposition "republican party" this man would be your president right now. Instead he resides under the party bus.

Consensus emerges in Congress for Obama Iraq plan
Naturally!

Jihad in CA:

An Irvine man claims he's the FBI informant who gathered information about Ahmadullah Niazi. Niazi's the Afghan national who was arrested last week for lying on passport and citizenship applications about his alleged connections to terrorist groups. The feds say his sister's married to Osama bin Laden's security coordinator. KPCC's Susan Valot says the alleged FBI informant spoke out today at his Irvine home.

SILENCE The Unhinged Zero Loon!:

John Guandolo, a former FBI special agent and expert on Islamic subversion in America, recently gave an intelligence briefing to the Tennessee Bedford County Emergency Management Agency. A report of the event was published by reporter Brian Mosely, an expert on Islam in the Shelbyville Times-Gazette in Tennessee. TVC’s leadership has consulted with Mosely on Islamic subversion.

Guandolo has been with the FBI since 1996, including nine years on its SWAT team. After 9/11, he worked in the FBI’s Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division, developing an expertise on Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamic groups inside the United States. Guandolo works with Stephen Coughlin, former Islamic Expert for the Joint Chiefs Of Staff.

According to Guandolo, every major Islamic group in America is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood – and the goal of this subversive group is the overthrow of Democracy and the imposition of Islamic Shariah Law on America.

Five Gaza rockets strike Israel

Palestinians need $1.15 billion in 2009
Pay the Jizya, Dhimmi.

Quartet of Caliphellating Whores to meet ahead of Gaza donors' conference

Foreign ministers from the four powers heading a Middle East peace process may meet in the Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh on March 1, RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russia's foreign ministry as saying on Wednesday.

The Quartet is composed of Russia, the United States, the United Nations and the European Union.

US will not attend UN conference on racism
Too soon to get away with it, god forbid it should tarnish "Brand Obama". Try again next year!

OIC concerned about "Food Security" to the tune of 1.5 Billion USD:

Pakistan suggested today that funds for the development of five initiatives under the Developing Eight (D8) Initiative To Address Food Security could be sourced from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB).

Its head of delegation to the just-concluded Minister's Meeting on Food Security, Lt Gen (Rtd) Tahir M.Qazi, said that that IDB had allocated US$1.5 billion (RM5.5 billion) for food crisis in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) countries for the next five years under the Jeddah Declaration.

He told Bernama on Friday that the D8 countries being OIC members were eligible to draw from this fund as they were also working on food security.

D8 comprises Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Turkey, Nigeria and Egypt.

LaserCard Corp. said Thursday it signed an additional supply card agreement for about $6 million to provide chip-ready optical memory cards in Saudi Arabia:

Mountain View-based LaserCard (NASDAQ:LCRD) said the agreement calls for purchase order releases for shipments beginning immediately and continuing through December 2009. LaserCard anticipates combined deliveries this calendar year of $11.2 million of Saudi Arabian national ID cards for this and a previously announced contract.

MEANTIME, BACK IN THE USSA:

Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license?
Homeland Security seeks next-generation REAL ID, also, too.....

Oy. There's a Niwad in Geert's Ahad:

In a letter to Attorney General Holder, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote:

"Today in Congress, taxpayer funds are being used for the screening of a virulently anti-Islam film and to promote the Islamophobic views of its producer. Despite appeals to offer a balancing perspective to the closed-door screening, elected officials and congressional staff will hear only anti-Muslim invective, without an opportunity for response from American Muslims.

Russia: Arms control to top talks with Clinton

Yeah. Meantime, back in reality:
Russia to Continue Nuclear Upgrades

Disarmament Commission Leader Accuses World of "Sleepwalking"

Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

Harper concerned by "aggressive" Russia
As well he should be.

Russian Navy admits causing Irish oil slick
WTF were they doing there anyway?

Gazprom inaugurates Research Center for Reservoir Systems

The settlement of Razvilka, Moscow Oblast saw the inauguration of the Research Center for Reservoir Systems and the first phase of the corporate core storage facility located on the territory of the Experimental and Prototype Base of VNIIGAZ.

I have no clue WTF that means, but the language of it viscerally disturbs me nevertheless.

Sugar for guns: Guatemala, Russia may swap goods

Argentina Considers Plan to Nationalize Grains Trade

Argentine Farm Group Condemns Trade Nationalization

China: The Ramifications Of Fuel Exports And Refining Capacity

Obama Defends His Budget as ‘a Threat to the Status Quo’
Indeed it is.

Deals of the Day: The Nationalization of Citi

Roubini: Citi Is Already Nationalized, Just Need To Finish The Job

Famed Economist Roubini To Write Of More Doom

Goldman Sachs power arm buys CA solar plants
Gold Man Sacks: Now with brand "Power Arm"!
Cogentrix Energy LLC

Young Banker Bails on Gold Man Sacks to run for Congress
Yeah well, he figures why waste any time?

Gold Man Sacks Sez: Recession ‘Best Thing’ for Japan
Japan called.
I think they said "Well, fuck you too, round eyes!", but I can't be sure.

Japan to support dollar as key currency
Ohhhh. Now we know why they were marginalizing them.

Microsoft's CFO Talks Strategy at Goldman Sachs Event

5 Billion Dolla Gubbmint PEPCO fails to give answer on rising energy costs

High utility bills spur Md. regulatory hearing

Utility Shut-Off Notices Surging
Hey if Vlad can do it, so can we...

Plouffe Daddy to Speak at Cornell U 2009 Convocation

"The 
Class 
of 
2009 
sought 
an 
individual 
who
 has 
had 
a 
profound 
impact 
on 
the society 
that 
our 
class 
has 
been 
prepared
 to 
enter. 
Mr.
Plouffe 
was 
the 
mastermind
 behind
 one 
of 
the 
most 
significant 
and 
groundbreaking election in our
 nation's 
history,

" Slicklin said.


a 
profound 
impact 
on 
the society 
that 
our 
class 
has 
been 
prepared
 to 
enter...

I myself am entirely unprepared to enter it, thank you.

Slicklin said!!

I tell ya... this shit just keeps right on writing itself!

Raytheon to Produce GPS-Related Advanced Anti-Jamming Antenna System



Health Workers' 'Conscience' Rule Set to Be Voided
You will be forced to perform abortions regardless of your religious beliefs.



"Final Exit" assisted suicide ring members prep for court fight
Murderers.

Droughts Ravaging California, Texas

New fish species is psychedelica

Why the Large Hadron Collider may be beaten to the Bang

You can not erase GOD with an edict:

The finds include official government seals bearing the names of Ahimelekh ben Amadyahu and Yehokhil ben Shahar, who were high-ranking officials in Hezekiah's government. The life of Hezekiah, the son of King Ahaz is detailed in the biblical books of Kings, Isaiah and Chronicles. Hezekiah was the 13th king of independent Judah.

Archaeologists also found a Hebrew inscription - dating 600 years after the Kingdom of Judah seals - on a fragment of a jar neck, characteristic of the beginning of the Hasmonean period. The ancient building was partially destroyed during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.

The finds are the latest in a mountain of unearthed remains giving a clearer picture of the Jewish presence in Jerusalem during the First and Second Temple periods. Still, the Palestinian Authority, which seeks control of the Temple Mount and eastern Jerusalem, steadfastly denies the Jewish temples ever existed.

In November, Ahmed Qurei, the PA's chief negotiator, who oversees all peace talks with the Jewish state, told reporters the Jewish Temples never existed and contended Israel has been working to "invent" a Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem. PA websites make similar claims.

The Fixx
Saved by Zero

"Holding onto
Words that teach me.

I will conquer
Space around me.
Maybe I'll win.

Saved by zero."

Audacious Obsolescence Akbar!

Hat Tip: Desert Sage


THE OBSOLETE MAN
The Twilight Zone
Episode #29
Air Date: June 2, 1961
Starring Burgess Meredith

CLICK ME
"You can not erase GOD with an edict!"
~ Mr. Wordsworth, Obsolete Man


ANTHRAX
I Am The Law

Floatin' Powa News Service: The Guts to Leave the Temple ~

The Who
I'm Free ~ 1975

You've been told many times before.
Messiah's pointed to the door.
No one had the guts to leave the Temple.

Iran assuming Mughniyeh role in Hez'b'allah

Italian foreign minister invited to Iran

Turkish President Gul to travel Iran in March

Iraqi president meets top Iranian leaders

OIC secretary-general: Islamic Development Bank to provide loan to Iraq
Five Hundred Million USD


OIC Secretary General meets with Iraqi Deputy PM

OIC Secretary General wraps up visit to Iraq

EU to pledge $556 million in Palestinian aid

Why is the US still entertaining Durban II?
I'll give you three guesses.

Clinton To Chart 'New Path' In Middle East
Meet the new path, same as the old path.

The Director of National Intelligence has selected Charles W. Freeman, Jr. as the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC).

The Chairman of the NIC will report to the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis (DDNYA) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). As Chairman of the NIC, Ambassador Freeman will be responsible for overseeing the production of National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) and other Intelligence Community analytical products, providing substantive counsel to the DNI and senior policymakers on issues of top national security importance, reaching out to nongovernmental experts in academia and the private sector to broaden the Intelligence Community's perspective, and articulating substantive intelligence priorities and procedures to guide intelligence collection and analysis.

As discussed over the last few days Ambassador Freeman is not just Anti-Israel, his views go way beyond the range of normal, even for an opponent of the Jewish State. Freeman runs magazine that claims the Iraq war was waged to help Israel. He subscribes the the "Walt and Mearsheimer contention that the Israel Lobby (a nice way of saying Jews) control the US Foreign policy. His MEPC political action group publishes a Workbook that teaches our children that the Muslims discovered the "New World" and the "Indians" who met he English Explorers all had Muslim names. The man will now be the gatekeeper deciding what gets to the President, is a Friend of the Bin Laden family, Sportive of Chinese Cruelty and runs a company Projects International that does a lot of business with the Saudi Royal family.

Barak: We're running out of time

Arms show in Emirates leads to $4.6 billion in deals

Pakistan opposition chief warns of chaos
I wonder what he calls what they have there now!

Malaysia to allow Christians to use 'Allah'
Mighty white of them. How 'bout I think about allowing them to use "Moses"

The Malaysian government has softened an earlier ban on the use of the word "Allah" by Christian publications to refer to God and is allowing them to use it as long as they specify the material is not for Muslims, a church official said Thursday.

WHOOPS!
5.0 in Malaysia

McCain backs Obama Iraq pullout plan
NATURALLY!
Do I begin to seem less insane to you yet?
No? Okeedokee then.

U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states

FDIC says regulators not pursuing bank nationalization
Tick...

Citi near deal with government
Tock....

Citigroup To Give 36% Stake To US Government

A REMINDER: November 2008: Saudi prince comes to rescue of Citigroup

Treasury Announces Participation In Citigroup's Exchange Offering
....I love the deceptobabble language of euphemisms

Rationalizing Nationalizing

Gold Man Sacks Sez: Stimulus Plans Can Work!
Ya. Socialism works great till you run out of other people's money.

Dow Chemical Strikes at Goldman Sachs

Are there really that many secrets in a $78-a-share takeover bid that has been playing out in public for eight months?

Merrill Expands Japan Equity Research; Rivals Retreat

Energy firms fight reregulation

5 billion dolla gubbmint Pepco CEO retires

Chevron vice chairman to retire

Let's see where those two turn up next. At the Fed? State? Maybe they can be special envoys to the Stanistan ...or something.

Gazprom Sponsors Wall Street Green Trading Summit
Molochian Dancing with Vlad and Stan at the Gaz Prom!

Putin warns against economic protests
Vlad, he must break you. ALL of you.

Gazprom builds up gas exports to Turkey by 25.4 million cubic meters

Russia To Delay Serbian Pipeline

Russia, NATO content with progress in relations

Iran & Russia discuss 10-year nuclear fuel supply deal

Russian "Nuclear Renaissance" Hits Roadblock

US sends NKorea envoy to Asia, Russia for nuke talks

Tajik Officials Unable To Check Russian Arms Smuggling

Tajik Politicians Debate Selling Major Assets To Russia

US Assists Turkmenistan On Landmark Legislation

CNPC (CHINA) buying Verenex (CANADA) to scoop up Libyan oil assets

Obama Moves to Undo ‘Conscience’ Rule for Health Workers

Senate Democrats to Investigate CIA

Vatican rejects bishop's apology
As well they should.

Tibeten Monk Shot by Chinese Police After Setting Himself on Fire

4.8 in the Philippines

Anger, defiance as Chile abandons volcano-hit town

George Michael
Freedom '90

All we have to do now
is take these lies
and make them true somehow

WRFL: Kings & Queens & Guillotines

Aerosmith
Kings & Queens

Kings and queens and guillotines
Taking lives denied
Starch and parchments laid the laws
When bishops took the ride
Only to deceive

WFRL: Bad Boy

The Jive Bombers
Bad Boy

Russia focuses on upgrading its nuclear arsenals

Russia to Continue Nuclear Upgrades
MEANTIME..... Obama Moving on Nuclear Arms Control

Russia: Famine that killed millions not genocide

Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.

Russian archivists and historians pressed the Kremlin's case that the Stalin-era famine — which killed millions of people — was a common tragedy across Soviet farmlands, countering efforts by Ukraine's pro-Western president to convince the world that Ukrainians were targeted for starvation.

"Not a single document exists that even indirectly shows that the strategy and tactics chosen for Ukraine differed from those applied to other regions, not to mention tactics or strategy with the aim of genocide," said Vladimir Kozlov, head of Russia's Federal Archive Agency.

He said the famine was a direct result of Josef Stalin's brutal collectivization campaign and the widespread confiscation of grain that was exported to secure equipment needed for the Soviet dictator's frenetic industrialization drive.

Kozlov said the policy was class-based, targeting the kulaks — wealthy farmers seen as enemies of Communism — and was implemented virtually identically across the Soviet Union.

"There were no national or ethnic undertones," he told a news conference at the headquarters of state news agency RIA-Novosti.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko contends the famine was aimed at rooting out Ukrainian nationalism.

"Hunger was selected as a tool to subdue the Ukrainian people," he said at a November ceremony marking the anniversary of what Ukrainians consider the onset of the 1932-1933 famine.

US rabbi leaves Russia after losing appeal

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An American rabbi left Russia after a Russian district court upheld a ruling ordering his expulsion.

The district court in Vladivostok ruled Feb. 12 that Silberstein violated the terms of his visa by serving as a religious leader. His visa had been issued for promoting cultural ties, according to Russia's Interfax agency.

WFRL: Talk Talk

The Music Machine
Talk Talk

Poor Otto Von Commietose Al Schmendrickgruben. There he sat patiently all day long, but none stopped to take advantage of his generous free offer. Not one. Otto wept bitter, angry tears and swore revenge.

Floatin' Powa News Service vs 55 Treacherous Miles ~

Thrice
For Miles

I know one day all our scars will disappear, like the stars at dawn. And all of our pain will fade away when morning comes, and on that day, when we look backwards, we will see that everything is changed, and all of our trials will be as milestones on the way. And as long as we live, every scar is a bridge to someone's broken heart. And there's no greater love than that one shed his blood for his friends. On that day, all of the scales will swing to set all the wrongs to right. All of our tears and all of our fears will take to flight. But until then, all of our scars will still remain. But we've learned that if we'll open the wounds and share them, then soon they start to heal...

An Hour with Geert:


They will yokki me for sure now.... listen at 27:44 ~

US envoy to Middle East says Turkey key peace partner
Super Caliphellating Expeditious with Psychosis Whoredoms of DOOM!

Gaza Rockets Strike Israel as Mitchell Arrives to Discuss Peace

Palestinians seek $2.8 billion for Gaza at donor meet

UK: Holocaust-denial Bishop Richard Williamson in line for speaking date

Obama Administration Weighs Timing for Potential Iran Talks

Brand Obama, Plouffe Daddy & The Greatest Logo Since the Hammer & Sickle:

Obama's campaign shows that brands can be inclusive!

snip

The Huffington Post suggests the victory was pre-ordained (in the religious sense).
Suite 101.com claims his leadership succeeded because he "meets the criteria of a developed 'Ruler' archetype". Professor Stephen Coleman, the expert on e-democracy, called the election "the victory of popular politics over the marketing of politics".

Ian Leslie, brand consultant and author of To Be President - Quest for the White House 2008, fundamentally disagrees with nearly all of the above theories.

Speaking at MediaCom's Obama Breakfast earlier this month, he pointed out that the election campaign faced many difficulties that could only be overcome by brilliant strategic and executional marketing of the highest level.

From the development of the best logo we've seen since the hammer and sickle through to the obsessive use of data, there are lessons we can apply to our own thinking.

snip

He has two heroes of the campaign (outside of Obama himself, who certainly came across as the most authentic brand in the contest).

Those heroes are David Axelrod, the chief strategist and visionary, and David Plouffe, the campaign manager.

Together they put together a programme of activity that combined the best of top-down and bottom-up marketing.

They delivered a consistent brand message while inviting consumers to participate. Too often, brand managers think they have to choose between these two routes, which become choosing between brand-controlled order or consumer-generated anarchy.

The Obama campaign shows you can invite consumers to participate in the brand without relinquishing control of your image.

Obama asks for review of White House homeland security coordination

Obama Plans Huge Shifts in Spending
Pimp Mah White House!

US criticises China, Russia in human rights report
LOL! But that won't stop us from selling your asses to them, thus sayeth The State:

"Mrs. Clinton has sidelined human rights on this trip"

China hits back with report on US human rights record

Pentagon imposes secrecy on US budget process

Top Pentagon officials have had to agree in writing to keep this year's budget talks a secret as they confront thorny questions about the future of expensive U.S. weapons programs, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the unusual step of requiring nondisclosure agreements of all senior officials who wanted to participate in the fiscal debate, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Raytheon wins $9.2M Patriot contract

A delegation from the European Parliament visits the OIC ...

The two sides emphasized the need to raise the dialogue at the appropriate political level as well as the grass roots constituencies of the politicians to reach mutual understanding and effectively address the issue of the rising trend of religious incitement and intolerance that is affecting the entire global community.

Holy Mouthfulla Glow Ballin' IslamoBabylonnin' Triple Speaking Double Spoken Utter Nothingness, Batman!

Saudi Arabia- ITFC focuses on trade within OIC

Professor & Wife Accused of Defrauding NASA of mondo $$$
OK here is the scariest bit of this story IMO:

Iranian-born Samim Anghaie, 59, is the Director of the Innovative Nuclear Space Power and Propulsion Institute at the University of Florida.

Ya. And Mohamed Mostafa El-Baradei is the nuke duke at the UN! So much for common fucking sense.

Norway's GGS says Iran survey attracts US interest

Norwegian seismic surveyor Global Geo Services (GGS) (GGS.OL), a supplier to the oil and gas industry, said on Wednesday a U.S.-based energy firm had shown interest in its survey offshore Iran.

Caspian energy policy is all at sea

Chevron Quits Fields In Siberia

Estonian spy sold NATO secrets

A former Estonian defence ministry official who sold Nato secrets to Russia has been sent to jail for 12 and a half years after a secret trial.

Russia hoping to thaw relations with NATO

Turkmenistan to open airspace for US supplies to Afghanistan

Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan ink 6 agreements

ROUND TWO: Ukraine, Russia face March gas crisis

AZERBAIJAN: WEBSITE REMAINS MISSING IN ACTION AFTER LINKING RUSSIA’S PUTIN TO GAZPROM FUNNY BUSINESS:

The mysterious closure of Azerbaijan’s Day.az web news portal has ignited a new controversy about press freedom in the energy-rich Caucasus state. Some observers believe the website’s shutdown is related to the posting of an article containing allegations that Russia’s paramount leader, Vladimir Putin, has "economic interests" in the state-controlled energy giant Gazprom. Officials in Baku deny taking action to muzzle Day.

Total, Gazprom eye Sahara gas pipeline venture

France's Total and Russian gas monopoly Gazprom are interested in participating in a multi-billion dollar project to pipe Nigerian gas to Europe across the Sahara, executives from the firms said on Wednesday.

Oil chief: Nigeria could be key gas player

Nigeria could be a key player in the global gas industry if obstacles are removed, a multinational oil giant's chief executive said Wednesday, as the west African country neared completing a deal with Russia's Gazprom.

Chevron Confirms Commitment to Develop Niger Delta
Vlad won't like it. he already cancelled your JV's, booted your asses out of Siberia, and the Gold Man Sacks gave you the thumbs down. This could spark a yet another small African war. Oh wait a minute, there already IS a war there , isn't there.

Ekaette explained that the struggle for development of the region (NIGERIA) has been on and several attempts by oil companies to tackle the problems have yielded little or no results.

"The ministry will continue to interface with stakeholders, so that there would be synergy in order to avoid duplications of efforts and waste of resources," the minister said. Ekaette noted that it would be better to understand the causes of militancy in a bid to achieve the desired results.

The Niger Delta is an unstable area of Nigeria ,and inter ethnic clashes are common practice, often access to oil revenue is the trigger for the violence.

Gazprom sees $2.5 bln Nigeria deal sealed in March

Thousands flee Somalia fighting

Kosovo trial clears Serbian leader

Venezuela says wants new output cut at OPEC meet

Lehman Brothers Insider Dealing Puzzled SEC

Futures traders charged in alleged $1.3 bln scam

US Stock Futures Drop on Concern Credit Crisis Is Deepening

Treasury administers ‘stress tests’ to monitor banks’ pulse
Get the fuckin' paddles, man, we're losing him! CLEAR!

Goldman Sachs May Purchase Assets If US Creates ‘Bad Bank’

Citi near deal with government

Just Don't Call It 'Nationalization'

Exchange Rates, Recessions and Depressions

The Who
I Can See For Miles

WFRL: She's So Heavy...

The Beatles
I Want You

HEZEKIAH'S TUNNEL, JERUSALEM
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2 Kings 18

Hezekiah King of Judah

¹ In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. ² He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah ^a]">[a] daughter of Zechariah. ³ He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done. ⁴ He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called ^b]">[b] Nehushtan. ^c]">[c])

⁵ Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. ⁶ He held fast to the LORD and did not cease to follow him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses. ⁷ And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. ⁸ From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.

⁹ In King Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. ¹⁰ At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah's sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. ¹¹ The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes. ¹² This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.

¹³ In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. ¹⁴ So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me." The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents ^d]">[d] of silver and thirty talents ^e]">[e] of gold. ¹⁵ So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

¹⁶ At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

¹⁷ The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field. ¹⁸ They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.

¹⁹ The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah:
" 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? ²⁰ You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? ²¹ Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. ²² And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?

²³ " 'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! ²⁴ How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen ^f]">[f] ? ²⁵ Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD ? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' "

²⁶ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."

²⁷ But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?"

²⁸ Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! ²⁹ This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. ³⁰ Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'

³¹ "Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, ³² until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!
"Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' ³³ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? ³⁴ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? ³⁵ Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"

³⁶ But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."

³⁷ Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.

Archaeologists discover artefacts from time of Hezekiah
by Daniel Blake Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a large building dating back to the time of the First and Second Temples and the reign of Hezekiah, ...

Biblical seal impressions found in Jerusalem
Feb 23, 2009
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Seal impressions that date back to the reign of the biblical King Hezekiah were found in southern Jerusalem. ...

Biblical seals unearthed in Jerusalem dig

Biblical Era Royal Seals Found in Jerusalem Hills