2 Kings 18 (NET)

2 Kings 18:1¹In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:27-29:11 Chr 3:13Matt 1:9-102 Kgs 16:20-17:12 Kgs 15:302 Kgs 16:22 Kgs 18:9

2 Kings 18:2²He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 29:1-2

2 Kings 18:3³He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:31 Kgs 11:381 Kgs 11:41 Kgs 15:111 Kgs 15:51 Kgs 3:142 Chr 29:22 Chr 31:20-212 Kgs 22:2Deut 6:18

2 Kings 18:4⁴He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:1Num 21:8-92 Kgs 18:221 Kgs 15:12-141 Kgs 22:431 Kgs 3:2-32 Kgs 12:3Deut 12:2-3Deut 7:5Exod 23:24

2 Kings 18:5⁵He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:252 Kgs 19:10Matt 27:43Eph 1:122 Chr 32:7-8Job 13:15Ps 13:5Ps 146:5-6Ps 27:1-2Ps 84:12

2 Kings 18:6⁶He was loyal to the Lord and did not abandon him. He obeyed the commandments that the Lord had given to Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 10:20Josh 23:8John 14:15Acts 11:231 John 5:32 Kgs 17:13John 15:142 Kgs 17:16Jer 11:4John 14:21

2 Kings 18:7⁷The Lord was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 16:7Gen 39:2-3Ps 60:12Rom 8:311 Sam 18:142 Chr 31:212 Chr 32:30Matt 28:20Ps 1:32 Chr 15:2

2 Kings 18:8⁸He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:9Isa 14:292 Chr 28:181 Chr 4:412 Chr 26:10Isa 5:2

2 Kings 18:9⁹In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched up against Samaria and besieged it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:142 Kgs 17:3-232 Kgs 18:1

2 Kings 18:10¹⁰After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel, Samaria was captured.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 3:11-4:3Amos 6:7Amos 9:1-4Hos 13:16Mic 1:6-9Mic 6:16Mic 7:13

2 Kings 18:11¹¹The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:262 Kgs 17:6Isa 37:122 Kgs 19:11Acts 7:43Amos 5:1-3Amos 5:25-27Amos 5:6Hos 8:8-9Hos 9:3

2 Kings 18:12¹²This happened because they did not obey 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:61 Pet 2:81 Pet 4:172 Kgs 17:7-232 Thess 1:82 Tim 2:24Dan 9:6-11Deut 11:28Deut 29:24-28Deut 31:17

2 Kings 18:13¹³In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 36:1-222 Chr 32:1-23Hos 12:1-2Isa 10:5Isa 7:17-25Isa 8:7-8

2 Kings 18:14¹⁴King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay 300 talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:71 Kgs 20:4Luke 14:32Prov 29:25

2 Kings 18:15¹⁵Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the Lord ’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 15:18-192 Kgs 16:82 Chr 16:22 Kgs 12:181 Kgs 15:15

2 Kings 18:16¹⁶At 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 and gave them to the king of Assyria.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 6:31-352 Chr 29:3

2 Kings 18:17¹⁷The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:20Isa 20:1Isa 7:3Isa 36:22 Chr 32:9Isa 22:9-11

2 Kings 18:18¹⁸They 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.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:21 Kgs 4:32 Chr 34:82 Sam 20:242 Sam 8:16-17Isa 22:15-24Isa 36:22Isa 36:3Isa 37:2

2 Kings 18:19¹⁹The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 36:42 Kgs 19:10Isa 10:8-142 Chr 32:10-112 Chr 32:14-162 Chr 32:7-82 Kgs 18:222 Kgs 18:29-30Dan 4:30Isa 36:7

2 Kings 18:20²⁰Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 21:30-31

2 Kings 18:21²¹Now look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If a man leans for support on it, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 30:7Ezek 29:6-7Isa 30:2-32 Kgs 17:4Isa 31:1-3Isa 36:6Jer 46:17

2 Kings 18:22²²Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 31:11 Cor 2:152 Chr 32:122 Kgs 18:4-5Dan 3:15Isa 36:7Matt 27:43

2 Kings 18:23²³Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you 2,000 horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:101 Kgs 20:181 Sam 17:421 Sam 17:44Isa 10:13-14Isa 36:8-9Neh 4:2-5Ps 123:3-4

2 Kings 18:24²⁴Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:82 Kgs 18:21Dan 2:37-38Dan 4:22Dan 4:37Deut 17:16Ezek 17:15Ezek 17:17Isa 31:1Isa 31:3

2 Kings 18:25²⁵Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it.’”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:61 Kgs 13:182 Chr 35:212 Kgs 19:22-37Amos 3:6Isa 10:5-6John 19:10-11

2 Kings 18:26²⁶Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 4:7Dan 2:4Isa 36:11-122 Kgs 18:18

2 Kings 18:27²⁷But the chief adviser said to them, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 6:25Deut 28:53-57Ezek 4:13Ezek 4:15Lam 4:5Ps 73:8

2 Kings 18:28²⁸The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 36:13-182 Chr 32:182 Kgs 18:19Ezek 29:3Ezek 31:3-10Ezra 7:12Isa 10:8-13Ps 47:2Rev 19:6

2 Kings 18:29²⁹This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you from my hand!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:152 Chr 32:112 Thess 2:42 Thess 2:8Dan 3:15-17Dan 6:16John 19:10-11Ps 73:8-9

2 Kings 18:30³⁰Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:102 Kgs 19:222 Kgs 19:32-34Luke 23:35Matt 27:43Ps 11:1Ps 125:1-2Ps 22:7-8Ps 4:2Ps 71:11

2 Kings 18:31³¹Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 4:251 Kgs 4:20Zech 3:10Prov 18:16Gen 32:20Gen 33:11

2 Kings 18:32³²until I come and take you to a land just like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 8:7-9Deut 11:12Exod 3:82 Kgs 17:232 Kgs 17:62 Kgs 18:112 Kgs 24:14-162 Kgs 25:11Deut 32:13-14Num 13:26-27

2 Kings 18:33³³Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:10-112 Chr 32:14-172 Chr 32:192 Kgs 19:12-132 Kgs 19:17-18Isa 36:18-20

2 Kings 18:34³⁴Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria from my power?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:92 Kgs 17:23-332 Kgs 17:62 Kgs 19:12-132 Sam 8:9Isa 36:18-19Isa 37:11-12Isa 37:18-19Jer 49:23Num 13:21

2 Kings 18:35³⁵Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 3:152 Chr 32:152 Kgs 19:17Exod 5:2Isa 10:15Isa 37:23-29Job 15:25-26Ps 2:1-2

2 Kings 18:36³⁶The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:13Matt 7:6Prov 26:4Prov 9:7Ps 38:13-14Ps 39:1

2 Kings 18:37³⁷Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:262 Kgs 22:112 Kgs 22:192 Kgs 5:72 Kgs 6:30Gen 37:29Gen 37:34Isa 33:7Isa 36:21-22Jer 36:24