2 Kings 18:11-13

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹¹ The king of Assyria took the Israelites to Assyria as captives. He put them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. ¹² This happened because they refused to obey the Lord their God and disregarded the conditions of the promise ^[a] he made to them. They refused to obey everything that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.

The Lord Rescues Judah from the Assyrians^(A)

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