2 Kings 18:1-3

Hezekiah Reigns in Judah

1 ¹In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, ²Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.

2 He was ³twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was ⁴Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

3 ⁵And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

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.

Cross References

• 1. 18:1 [ch. 16:2; 17:1]
• 2. 18:1 2 Chr. 28:27; Matt. 1:9
• 3. 18:2 For ver. 2, 3, see 2 Chr. 29:1, 2
• 4. 18:2 [2 Chr. 29:1]
• 5. 18:3 ch. 20:3; 2 Chr. 31:20