2 Kings 18:13-16

Sennacherib Attacks Judah

13 ¹In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear."²And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents^[a] of silver and thirty talents of gold.

15 And Hezekiah ³gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house.

16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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2 Kings 18:13-16 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 3

1. For ver. 13-37, see 2 Chronicles 32:1-20; Isaiah 36:1-22
2. [2 Kings 23:33]
3. [2 Kings 12:18; 2 Kings 16:8]

Footnotes 1

[a]. A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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