Hezekiah & The Silent Slaughter

The Chosen People

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Judaism, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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# 234 - Hezekiah & The Silent Slaughter - In this episode of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein, Under siege by Assyria’s taunts, King Hezekiah lays a threatening letter before God—and heaven answers the silence with sovereign deliverance. Explore a breathtaking story of prayer over panic, courage under mockery, and the God who topples empires without loosing a single arrow.Episode 234 of The Chosen People with Yael Eckstein is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Sign up for The Chosen People devotionals at https://www.thechosenpeople.com/sign-upFor more information about Yael Eckstein and IFCJ visit https://www.ifcj.org/Today's opening prayer is inspired by Psalm 44:4–5, You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob. Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.Listen to some of the greatest Bible stories ever told and make prayer a priority in your life by downloading the Pray.com app.Show Notes:(02:27) Intro with Yael Eckstein(03:20) Hezekiah & The Silent Slaughter(27:37) Reflection with Yael Eckstein See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Previously on the chosen people.
0:03.0	But if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe my commands,
0:10.0	if you serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them.
0:17.0	I will reject this temple I have consecrated for my name.
0:23.6	Silence!
0:25.2	Here now the judgment of the Lord, oh giant slayer!
0:30.9	The sword shall never leave your house.
0:34.3	Blood shall answer blood.
0:36.7	Because you have dealt in violence, so too shall violence rise in your own walls.
0:44.5	You do the king and Israel no good with all your negativity and doom. You should be giving the king confidence.
0:53.7	Give our nation something to cheer for.
0:56.5	I cheer for the holiness of our nation.
0:59.6	I chair for justice to our poor and repentance from the wickedness of our kings.
1:06.9	Israel, hear me!
1:09.4	How long will you stumble like drunkards, wavering between two paths, pretending you serve both when your hearts belong to neither?
1:18.6	How long will you hobble back and forth, torn between a god of silence and a god of all creation?
1:26.6	How long will you let a slothful drunk and a witch queen make your decisions for you?
1:33.7	If your way is God, follow him.
1:37.0	If Bail is God, then bow to him fully.
1:40.2	But enough of this cowardly, pathetic half-fay. You cannot serve two masters. This is the moment.
1:51.3	This is the line. Choose!
1:56.3	It was a reckoning with their own depravity, a cry for deliverance from the whirlwind of sin that had ensnared them.
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