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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 18: 5 He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
2_Kings 18: 6 For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.
2_Kings 18: 7 And the LORD was with him: whithersoever he went forth he prospered; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
2_Kings 18: 8 He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
2_Kings 18: 9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
2_Kings 18: 10 And at the end of three years they took it; even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
2_Kings 18: 11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;
2_Kings 18: 12 because they hearkened not to the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it. 2_Kings 18: 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
2_Kings 18: 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying: 'I have offended; return from me; that which thou puttest on me will I bear.' And the king of Assyria appoin 
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