2 Kings 18:1-3

Hezekiah King of Judah

1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah^[a] daughter of Zechariah.

3 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

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2 Kings 18:1-3 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 4

1. Isaiah 1:1; Hosea 1:1; Micah 1:1; 2 Chronicles 28:27
2. ver 13; Isaiah 38:5
3. S 1 Kings 14:8
4. Isaiah 38:5

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew "Abi," a variant of "Abijah"