2 Kings 18:6

6 He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

2 Kings 18:6 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:6

For he clave to the Lord
To his worship and service; to the fear of the Lord, as the Targum:

and departed not from following him;
from his worship, as the same paraphrase:

but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses;
both moral, ceremonial, and judicial.

2 Kings 18:6 In-Context

4 He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites} were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.

5 He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah.

6 He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

7 Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

8 He attacked [the] Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city.