2 Kings 18:3-13

3 ¹He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.

4 ²He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces ³the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.

5 ⁴He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; ⁵so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.

6 For he ⁶clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.

Hezekiah Victorious

7 ⁷And the LORD was with him; wherever * he went he prospered. And ⁸he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

8 ⁹He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from ¹⁰watchtower to fortified city.

9 Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, ¹¹Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged * it.

10 At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was ¹²the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

11 Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in ¹³Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

12 because * they ¹⁴did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.

Invasion of Judah

13 ¹⁵Now in the fourteenth * year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

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2 Kings 18:3-13 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 15

1. 2 Kings 20:3; 2 Chronicles 31:20
2. 2 Kings 18:22; 2 Chronicles 31:1
3. Numbers 21:8, 9
4. 2 Kings 19:10
5. 2 Kings 23:25
6. Deuteronomy 10:20; Joshua 23:8
7. Genesis 39:2, 3; 1 Samuel 18:14
8. 2 Kings 16:7
9. 2 Chronicles 28:18; Isaiah 14:29
10. 2 Kings 17:9
11. 2 Kings 17:3-7
12. 2 Kings 17:6
13. 1 Chronicles 5:26
14. 1 Kings 9:6; Daniel 9:6, 10
15. 2 Chronicles 32:1; Is 36:1-39:8

Footnotes 3

[a]. I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity
[b]. I.e. a piece of bronze
[c]. Lit "smote"