2 Kings 18:12

12 Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do.

2 Kings 18:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:12

Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord
In his law, and by his prophets:

but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the
Lord commanded;
which evils are at large insisted on in the preceding chapter as the cause of their captivity:

and would not hear them, nor do them;
contrary to the agreement of their fathers at Sinai, who promised to do both, ( Exodus 24:3 Exodus 24:7 ) .

2 Kings 18:12 In-Context

10 And took it. For after three years, in the sixth year of Ezechias, that is, in the ninth year of Osee, king of Israel, Samaria was taken:

11 And the king of the Assyrians carried away Israel into Assyria, and placed them in Hala, and in Habor, by the rivers of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.

12 Because they hearkened not to the voice of the Lord, their God, but transgressed his covenant: all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded, they would not hear, nor do.

13 In the fourteenth year of king Ezechias, Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the fenced cities of Juda, and took them.

14 Then Ezechias, king of Juda, sent messengers to the king of the Assyrians, to Lachis, saying: I have offended, depart from me: and all that thou shalt put upon me, I will bear. And the king of the Assyrians put a tax upon Ezechias, king of Juda, of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.