2 Kings 18:9-16

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[a] of silver and thirty talents[b] 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.

Cross References 12

  • 1. Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 36:1
  • 2. Isaiah 37:12
  • 3. Ezekiel 16:39; Ezekiel 23:9
  • 4. S 2 Kings 17:15
  • 5. 2 Kings 21:8; Daniel 9:6,10
  • 6. S 1 Kings 9:6
  • 7. S ver 2
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 32:1; Isaiah 1:7; Micah 1:9
  • 9. 2 Kings 19:8
  • 10. Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 33:8
  • 11. S 1 Kings 15:18; 2 Kings 16:8; Isaiah 39:2
  • 12. 2 Chronicles 29:3

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. That is, about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons
  • [b]. That is, about 1 ton or about 1 metric ton
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