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11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel[a] to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. 12 This happened because they did not obey[b] the Lord their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.[c]

Sennacherib Invades Judah

13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:11 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
  2. 2 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”
  3. 2 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”

11 The king(A) of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.(B) 12 This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant(C)—all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.(D) They neither listened to the commands(E) nor carried them out.

13 In the fourteenth year(F) of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah(G) and captured them.

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