2 Kings 18
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Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

removed

2 Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed …

2 Kings 14:4 However, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did …

2 Kings 15:4,35 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed …

Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and …

1 Kings 3:2,3 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house …

1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was …

1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside …

Psalm 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved …

Ezekiel 20:28,29 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted …

brake

2 Kings 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of …

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, …

Deuteronomy 12:2,3 You shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which …

Judges 6:25,28 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Take …

1 Kings 15:12,13 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the …

2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have …

2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went …

2 Chronicles 33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had …

images [heb] statues
the brasen serpent

Numbers 21:8,9 And the LORD said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it …

John 3:14,15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must …

unto those days

2 Kings 16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar …

Nehushtan that is, a piece of brass

He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

he clave None of the kings of judah, from the time of the division of the kingdom, equalled Hezekiah in the stedfastness and simplicity oh his dependence upon the Lord; in which he aspired to an equality with his progenitor David, who had reigned over the whole land. Even Asa, through weakness of faith, sought the assistance of a heathen prince; and Jehoshaphat formed an alliance with idolatrous Ahab; but Hezekiah clave to the Lord, in entire confidence and unreserved obedience, to the end of his life.

Deuteronomy 10:20 You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him …

Joshua 23:8 But hold to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …

from following him [heb] from after him
kept

2 Kings 17:13,16,19 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all …

Jeremiah 11:4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth …

John 14:15,21 If you love me, keep my commandments…

John 15:10,14 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as …

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his …

And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

And the Lord

Genesis 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …

Genesis 39:2,3 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he …

1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

Psalm 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalm 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread …

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …

Acts 7:9,10 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but …

he prospered

Genesis 39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he …

1 Samuel 18:5,14 And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: …

2 Samuel 8:6,14 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became …

2 Chronicles 31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, …

2 Chronicles 32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and …

Psalm 1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that …

Psalm 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread …

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

rebelled

2 Kings 18:20 You say, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength …

2 Kings 16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, …

He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

they obeyed not

2 Kings 17:7-23 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the …

Deuteronomy 8:20 As the nations which the LORD destroys before your face, so shall you perish…

Deuteronomy 11:28 And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of the LORD your …

Deuteronomy 29:24-28 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? …

Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will …

Nehemiah 9:17,26,27 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you …

Psalm 107:17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, …

Isaiah 1:19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:

Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed …

Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will …

Daniel 9:6-11 Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, which spoke …

Micah 3:4 Then shall they cry to the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will …

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that …

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which …

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: …

Moses

Numbers 12:7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.

Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, …

Joshua 1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, …

2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all …

Hebrews 3:5,6 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for …

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

A.M.

2 Chronicles 32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, …

Isaiah 20:1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of …

Isaiah 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem …

Tartan Calmet remarks, that these are not the names of persons, but of offices: Tartan signifies `he who presides over gifts or tribute;' Rabsaris, `the chief of the eunuchs;' and rabshakeh, `the chief cup-bearer.'

great [heb] heavy
the conduit of the upper pool If the Fuller's field were near En-Rogel, or the Fuller's fountain east of Jerusalem, as is generally supposed, then the conduit of the upper pool may been an aqueduct that brought the water from the upper or eastern reservoir of that fountain, which had been seized in order to distress the city.

2 Kings 20:20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how …

Isaiah 7:3 Then said the LORD to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and …

Isaiah 22:9-11 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are …

Isaiah 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem …

And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

sayest. or, talkest. vain words. Heb. word of the lips. I have counsel and strength for the war. or, but counsel and strength are for the war.

Proverbs 21:30,31 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD…

rebellest.

2 Kings 18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, …

Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Speak. Perceiving that the object of this blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to sedition, they mildly and reasonably required him to make his proposals in the Syrian language.

in the Syrian language.

Ezra 4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, …

Isaiah 36:11,12 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray …

Daniel 2:4 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for …

But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

the gods.

2 Kings 19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king …

Numbers 13:21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin …

2 Samuel 8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

Jeremiah 49:23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have …

Hamath. Hamath, there is little doubt, was the Epiphania of the Greeks, as Josephus, Theodoret, and Jerome, expressly assert. It was a celebrated city of Syria, situated on the Orontes, and the present Hamah doubtless occupies its site; as Abulfeda, who was prince or emir of Hamah about A.D.

Arpad. Arpad is probably the town of Arphas, mentioned by Josephus as limiting the province of Gamalitis, Gaulanitis, Batanea, and Trachonitis, to the N.E.; and the Raphan, or Raphanea, which Stephanus places near Epiphania.

the gods.

2 Kings 17:24-33 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, …

Ava.

Isaiah 36:18,19 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us…

Isaiah 37:11,12,18,19 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all …

have they delivered.

2 Kings 17:6,23,24,30,31 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and …

2 Kings 19:12,13 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have …

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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