2 Kings 18

1Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:30 · 2Ki 16:2 · 2Ki 16:20 · 2Ki 18:9 · 1Chr 3:13 · 2Chr 28:27 · +1 more

2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.Cross-references: 2Chr 29:1

3He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Deut 6:18 · 1Ki 3:14 · 1Ki 11:4 · 1Ki 11:38 · 1Ki 15:5 · +9 more

4He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.Cross-references: Ex 23:24 · Lev 26:30 · Num 21:8 · Deut 7:5 · Deut 12:2 · Judg 6:25 · +17 more

5He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:10 · 2Ki 19:15 · 2Ki 23:25 · 2Chr 14:11 · 2Chr 16:7 · 2Chr 20:20 · +11 more

6For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.Cross-references: Deut 10:20 · Josh 23:8 · 2Ki 17:13 · 2Ki 17:16 · 2Ki 17:19 · Jer 11:4 · +6 more

7Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.Cross-references: Gen 21:22 · Gen 39:2 · 1Sam 18:5 · 1Sam 18:14 · 2Sam 8:6 · 2Sam 8:14 · +12 more

8He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:9 · 1Chr 4:41 · 2Chr 26:10 · 2Chr 28:18 · Isa 5:2 · Isa 14:29

9In 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:3 · 2Ki 18:1 · Hos 10:14

10At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.Cross-references: Hos 13:16 · Amos 3:11 · Amos 6:7 · Amos 9:1 · Mic 1:6 · Mic 6:16 · +1 more

11The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,Cross-references: 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 19:11 · 1Chr 5:26 · Isa 7:8 · Isa 8:4 · Isa 9:9 · +9 more

12because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.Cross-references: Num 12:7 · Deut 8:20 · Deut 11:28 · Deut 29:24 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 34:5 · +16 more

13Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:1 · Isa 7:17 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 36:1 · Hos 12:1

14Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Withdraw from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.Cross-references: 1Ki 20:4 · 2Ki 18:7 · Prov 29:25 · Luke 14:32

15Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:15 · 1Ki 15:18 · 2Ki 12:18 · 2Ki 16:8 · 2Chr 16:2

16At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.Cross-references: 1Ki 6:31 · 2Chr 29:3

17The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.Cross-references: 2Ki 20:20 · 2Chr 32:9 · Isa 7:3 · Isa 20:1 · Isa 22:9 · Isa 36:2

18When they had 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:16 · 2Sam 20:24 · 1Ki 4:3 · 2Ki 19:2 · 2Chr 34:8 · Isa 22:15 · +3 more

19Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:22 · 2Ki 18:29 · 2Ki 19:10 · 2Chr 32:7 · 2Chr 32:10 · 2Chr 32:14 · +7 more

20You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?Cross-references: Prov 21:30

21Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:4 · Isa 30:2 · Isa 30:7 · Isa 31:1 · Isa 36:6 · Jer 46:17 · +1 more

22But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that 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’?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:4 · 2Chr 31:1 · 2Chr 32:12 · Isa 36:7 · Dan 3:15 · Matt 27:43 · +1 more

23Now therefore, please give pledges to 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:42 · 1Sam 17:44 · 1Ki 20:10 · 1Ki 20:18 · Neh 4:2 · Ps 123:3 · +2 more

24How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?Cross-references: Deut 17:16 · 2Ki 18:21 · Ps 20:7 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 31:1 · Isa 31:3 · +9 more

25Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”Cross-references: 1Ki 13:18 · 2Ki 19:6 · 2Ki 19:22 · 2Chr 35:21 · Isa 10:5 · Amos 3:6 · +1 more

26Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”Cross-references: 2Ki 18:18 · Ezra 4:7 · Isa 36:11 · Dan 2:4

27But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”Cross-references: Deut 28:53 · 2Ki 6:25 · Ps 73:8 · Lam 4:5 · Ezek 4:13 · Ezek 4:15

28Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:19 · 2Chr 32:18 · Ezra 7:12 · Ps 47:2 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 36:13 · +3 more

29The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:11 · 2Chr 32:15 · Ps 73:8 · Dan 3:15 · Dan 6:16 · John 19:10 · +2 more

30Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”Cross-references: 2Ki 19:10 · 2Ki 19:22 · 2Ki 19:32 · Ps 4:2 · Ps 11:1 · Ps 22:7 · +5 more

31Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;Cross-references: Gen 32:20 · Gen 33:11 · 1Ki 4:20 · 1Ki 4:25 · Prov 18:16 · Zech 3:10

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 of honey, that you may live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Num 13:26 · Num 14:8 · Deut 8:7 · Deut 11:12 · Deut 32:13 · +5 more

33Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?Cross-references: 2Ki 19:12 · 2Ki 19:17 · 2Chr 32:14 · 2Chr 32:19 · Isa 10:10 · Isa 36:18

34Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?Cross-references: Num 13:21 · 2Sam 8:9 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 17:23 · 2Ki 19:12 · Isa 10:9 · +4 more

35Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · 2Ki 19:17 · 2Chr 32:15 · Job 15:25 · Ps 2:1 · Isa 10:15 · +2 more

36But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”Cross-references: Ps 38:13 · Ps 39:1 · Prov 9:7 · Prov 26:4 · Amos 5:13 · Matt 7:6

37Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.Cross-references: Gen 37:29 · Gen 37:34 · 2Ki 5:7 · 2Ki 6:30 · 2Ki 18:26 · 2Ki 22:11 · +6 more