3
He did right in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that David his ancestor had done.
4
He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites} were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.
5
He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah.
6
He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.
7
Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
8
He attacked [the] Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city.
9
It happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that [is,] the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came against Samaria and laid siege against her.
10
At the end of three years, he captured it in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that [is,] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel; Samaria was captured.
11
Then the king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Habor, [in] the river [regions] of Gozan, and [in] the cities of the Medes,
12
because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God, and they transgressed his covenant; all that he had commanded Moses, the servant of Yahweh, they did not listen [to] nor did they obey.
Sennacherib of Assyria Invades Judah
13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.