[DailyReading] Trust made a young king great

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Lesson: In God We Trust
Reading: Trust made a young king great  2016-04-11
Reference: 2 Kings 18:1-8 
II Kings 18:1: Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
II Kings 18:2: Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
II Kings 18:3: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
II Kings 18:4: He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
II Kings 18:5: He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
II Kings 18:6: For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
II Kings 18:7: And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
II Kings 18:8: He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
(KJV)