2 Kings 18 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Hezekiah Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 29:1, 2; 31:1 )

2Ki 18:1Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.

2Ki 18:2

2Ki 18:2He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

2Ki 18:3

2Ki 18:3He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.

2Ki 18:4

2Ki 18:4He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the [fn]Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called [fn]Nehushtan.

2Ki 18:5

2Ki 18:5He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.

2Ki 18:6

2Ki 18:6For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.

Hezekiah Victorious

2Ki 18:7

2Ki 18:7And the LORD was with him; wherever he went he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

2Ki 18:8

2Ki 18:8He [fn]defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.

2Ki 18:9

2Ki 18:9Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

2Ki 18:10

2Ki 18:10At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

2Ki 18:11

2Ki 18:11Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

2Ki 18:12

2Ki 18:12because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.

Invasion of Judah

2Ki 18:13

2Ki 18:13Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

2Ki 18:14

2Ki 18:14Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong. [fn]Withdraw from me; whatever you [fn]impose on me I will bear.” So the king of Assyria [fn]required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2Ki 18:15

2Ki 18:15Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king’s house.

2Ki 18:16

2Ki 18:16At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

(Isa 36:2–22; 2Ch 32:9–15 )

2Ki 18:17

2Ki 18:17Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the [fn]fuller’s field.

2Ki 18:18

2Ki 18:18When they called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

2Ki 18:19

2Ki 18:19Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What is this confidence that you [fn]have?

2Ki 18:20

2Ki 18:20“You say (but they are [fn]only empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?

2Ki 18:21

2Ki 18:21“Now behold, you [fn]rely on the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his [fn]hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

2Ki 18:22

2Ki 18:22“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

2Ki 18:23

2Ki 18:23“Now therefore, [fn]come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

2Ki 18:24

2Ki 18:24“How then can you [fn]repulse one [fn]official of the least of my master’s servants, and [fn]rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2Ki 18:25

2Ki 18:25“Have I now come up [fn]without the LORD’S approval against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

2Ki 18:26

2Ki 18:26Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we [fn]understand it; and do not speak with us in [fn]Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

2Ki 18:27

2Ki 18:27But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

2Ki 18:28

2Ki 18:28Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, [fn]saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2Ki 18:29

2Ki 18:29“Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from [fn]my hand;

2Ki 18:30

2Ki 18:30nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

2Ki 18:31

2Ki 18:31‘Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “[fn]Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

2Ki 18:32

2Ki 18:32until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”

2Ki 18:33

2Ki 18:33‘Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

2Ki 18:34

2Ki 18:34‘Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and [fn]Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

2Ki 18:35

2Ki 18:35‘Who among all the gods of the lands [fn]have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’”

2Ki 18:36

2Ki 18:36But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

2Ki 18:37

2Ki 18:37Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(18:4)

I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity

(18:4)

I.e. a piece of bronze

Literally: smote

Literally: Return

Literally: give

Literally: put on

I.e. launderer's

Literally: trust

Literally: a word of the lips

(18:21)

Literally: rely for yourself

(18:21)

Literally: palm

(18:23)

Literally: please exchange pledges

(18:24)

Literally: turn away the face of

(18:24)

Or, governor

(18:24)

Literally: rely for yourself

(18:25)

Literally: without the LORD

(18:26)

Literally: hear

(18:26)

I.e. Hebrew

(18:28)

Literally: and spoke, saying,

(18:29)

Hebrew: his

(18:31)

Literally: Make with me a blessing

(18:34)

In 2 Kin 17:24, Avva

(18:35)

Literally: who have

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