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2 Kings 18:7-12

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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.
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2 Kings 18:7-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 18

This chapter begins with the good reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, the reformation he made in the kingdom, and the prosperity that attended him when Israel was carried captive, 2Ki 18:1-12 and gives an account of the siege of Jerusalem by the king of Assyria, and of the distress Hezekiah was in, and the hard measures he was obliged to submit unto, 2Ki 18:13-18 and of the reviling and blasphemous speech of Rabshakeh, one of the generals of the king of Assyria, urging the Jews to a revolt from their king, 2Ki 18:19-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. S Genesis 39:3; 1 Samuel 18:14; S Job 22:25
  • 2. 2 Kings 24:1; Ezra 4:19; Isaiah 36:5; 2 Kings 16:7
  • 3. 2 Kings 17:9; Isaiah 14:29
  • 4. Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 36:1
  • 5. Isaiah 37:12
  • 6. Ezekiel 16:39; Ezekiel 23:9
  • 7. S 2 Kings 17:15
  • 8. 2 Kings 21:8; Daniel 9:6,10
  • 9. S 1 Kings 9:6
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