2 Kings 18:6

6 He held fast to God - never loosened his grip - and obeyed to the letter everything God had commanded Moses.

2 Kings 18:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:6

For he clave to the Lord
To his worship and service; to the fear of the Lord, as the Targum:

and departed not from following him;
from his worship, as the same paraphrase:

but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses;
both moral, ceremonial, and judicial.

2 Kings 18:6 In-Context

4 He got rid of the local fertility shrines, smashed the phallic stone monuments, and cut down the sex-and-religion Asherah groves. As a final stroke he pulverized the ancient bronze serpent that Moses had made; at that time the Israelites had taken up the practice of sacrificing to it - they had even dignified it with a name, Nehushtan (The Old Serpent).

5 Hezekiah put his whole trust in the God of Israel. There was no king quite like him, either before or after.

6 He held fast to God - never loosened his grip - and obeyed to the letter everything God had commanded Moses.

7 And God, for his part, held fast to him through all his adventures.

8 And he drove back the Philistines, whether in sentry outposts or fortress cities, all the way to Gaza and its borders.