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2 Kings 18:13-18
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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. 14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty.[a] If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.”[b] So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay 300 talents[c] of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in[d] the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace. 16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts that he had plated[e] and gave them to the king of Assyria.

17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser[f] from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went[g] and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.[h] 18 They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna, the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:14 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
  2. 2 Kings 18:14 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
  3. 2 Kings 18:14 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.
  4. 2 Kings 18:15 tn Heb “that was found.”
  5. 2 Kings 18:16 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the Lord’s temple, and the posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had plated.”
  6. 2 Kings 18:17 sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.
  7. 2 Kings 18:17 tn Heb “and they went up and came.”
  8. 2 Kings 18:17 tn Heb “the field of the fuller.”
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2 Kings 18:13-18
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Sennacherib Comes Up Against Judah

13 (A)Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them. 14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “(B)I have done wrong. Turn away from me; whatever penalty you give to me I will bear.” So the king of Assyria set a penalty on Hezekiah king of Judah [a]three hundred talents of silver and [b]thirty talents of gold. 15 (C)Thus Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of Yahweh and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16 At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yahweh and from the doorposts, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

17 Then the king of Assyria sent (D)Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a heavy military force to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the (E)conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the [c]fuller’s field. 18 Then they called to the king, and (F)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and (G)Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:14 Approx. 11.25 tons or 10.2 metric tons, a talent was approx. 75 lb. or 34 kg
  2. 2 Kings 18:14 Approx. 1.13 tons or 1 metric ton
  3. 2 Kings 18:17 Or launderer’s
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