II Kings 18

1In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.

2 Chronicles 28:27, 2 Chronicles 29:1, 2 Chronicles 28:27, 2 Chronicles 29:1, Matthew 1:9

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

2 Chronicles 29:1, 2 Chronicles 29:2, 2 Chronicles 29:1, 2 Chronicles 29:2

3And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.

2 Kings 20:3, 2 Kings 20:3, 1 Kings 11:38, 1 Kings 11:4, 2 Chronicles 29:2

4He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.

2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:1, Numbers 21:8, Numbers 21:9, Numbers 21:8

5Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.

2 Kings 23:25, 2 Kings 23:25, 2 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 19:10, Matthew 27:43

6He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.

Joshua 23:8, Deuteronomy 10:20, Joshua 23:8, Deuteronomy 10:20, John 14:15

7And the LORD was with Hezekiah, and he prospered wherever he went. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.

2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:7, Psalms 60:12, Romans 8:31, Genesis 39:2

8He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city.

Isaiah 14:29, 2 Kings 17:9, Isaiah 14:29, 2 Kings 17:9, 2 Chronicles 28:18

9In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.

Hosea 10:14, Hosea 10:14, 2 Kings 18:1, 2 Kings 17:3, 2 Kings 17:23

10And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.

Micah 6:16, Amos 6:7, Micah 7:13, Hosea 13:16, Amos 3:11

11The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

1 Chronicles 5:26, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Isaiah 37:12, 2 Kings 17:6, Isaiah 37:12

12This happened because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God, but violated His covenant—all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded—and would neither listen nor obey.

2 Timothy 2:24, Deuteronomy 29:24, Deuteronomy 29:28, Isaiah 1:19, Deuteronomy 11:28

13In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

Isaiah 36:1, Isaiah 36:22, Isaiah 36:1, Isaiah 36:22, Isaiah 10:5

14So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:7, 2 Kings 18:7, Luke 14:32, Proverbs 29:25, 1 Kings 20:4

15Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

2 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:18, 1 Kings 15:19, 2 Kings 16:8, 1 Kings 15:18

16At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold with which he had plated the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.

2 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Kings 6:31, 1 Kings 6:35, 2 Chronicles 29:3, 1 Kings 6:31

17Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

2 Kings 20:20, Isaiah 20:1, Isaiah 7:3, 2 Kings 20:20, Isaiah 20:1

18Then they called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.

2 Kings 19:2, 2 Kings 19:2, Isaiah 22:15, Isaiah 22:24, Isaiah 36:3

19The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

Isaiah 36:4, Isaiah 36:4, Daniel 4:30, 2 Kings 19:10, Daniel 4:30

20You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

Proverbs 21:30, Proverbs 21:31, Proverbs 21:30, Proverbs 21:31

21Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 30:7, Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7, Isaiah 30:2

22But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 1 Corinthians 2:15, 2 Chronicles 32:12, Isaiah 36:7

23Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

1 Kings 20:10, Nehemiah 4:2, Nehemiah 4:5, 1 Samuel 17:42, Isaiah 36:8

24For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 31:3, Jeremiah 42:14, Jeremiah 42:18

25So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

2 Kings 19:6, 2 Kings 19:6, 2 Kings 19:22, 2 Kings 19:37, John 19:10

26Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Ezra 4:7, Ezra 4:7, Daniel 2:4, Daniel 2:4, Isaiah 36:11

27But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Lamentations 4:5, Ezekiel 4:13, Ezekiel 4:15, Deuteronomy 28:53, Deuteronomy 28:57

28Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36:13, Isaiah 36:18, Isaiah 36:13, Isaiah 36:18, Psalms 47:2

29This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.

2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Chronicles 32:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Daniel 3:15

30Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

2 Kings 19:22, 2 Kings 19:10, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 125:1

31Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

1 Kings 4:25, 1 Kings 4:25, 1 Kings 4:20, Zechariah 3:10, 1 Kings 4:20

32until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’

Deuteronomy 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:9, Deuteronomy 8:7, Deuteronomy 8:9, Deuteronomy 11:12

33Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 10:10, Isaiah 10:11, Isaiah 10:10, Isaiah 10:11, 2 Chronicles 32:14

34Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 10:9, Isaiah 10:9, Jeremiah 49:23, 2 Kings 17:23, 2 Kings 17:33

35Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

Daniel 3:15, Daniel 3:15, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 2:2, Isaiah 10:15

36But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

Psalms 39:1, Matthew 7:6, Amos 5:13, Proverbs 9:7, Proverbs 26:4

37Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 33:7, 2 Kings 6:30, Matthew 26:65, Genesis 37:34, 2 Kings 18:26

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