2 Kings 18:13-18

International Standard Version

¹³ During the fourteenth year of the reign of^[a] King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria approached all of the walled cities of Judah and seized them. ¹⁴ So Hezekiah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have offended you. Withdraw from me, and I’ll accept whatever tribute you impose.” So the king of Assyria required Hezekiah to pay him 300 talents^[b] of silver and 30 talents^[c] of gold. ¹⁵ Hezekiah gave him all the silver that could be removed from the Lord’s Temple and from the treasuries in the king’s palace. ¹⁶ At that time, Hezekiah removed the doors to the Lord’s Temple and the doorposts that he had overlaid with gold,^[d] and gave the gold^[e] to the king of Assyria.

Assyria’s King Taunts Hezekiah^(A)

¹⁷ Sometime later, the king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rab-saris, and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, accompanied with a large army. ¹⁸ When they called for the king, Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebnah the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder went out to them.