2 Kings 18:5-15

5 ¹He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; ²so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.

6 For he ³clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.

Hezekiah Victorious

7 ⁴And the LORD was with him; wherever * he went he prospered. And ⁵he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

8 ⁶He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from ⁷watchtower 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, ⁸Shalmaneser 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 ⁹the 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 ¹⁰Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

12 because * they ¹¹did 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 ¹²Now in the fourteenth * year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "¹³I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

15 ¹⁴Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house.

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2 Kings 18:5-15 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 14

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

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "smote"
[b]. Lit "Return"
[c]. Lit "give"
[d]. Lit "put on"