¹³In the fourteenth yearⁱ of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah^j and captured them. ¹⁴So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:^k “I have done wrong.^l Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents^c of silver and thirty talents^d of gold. ¹⁵So Hezekiah gave^m him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

¹⁶At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doorsⁿ and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

18:13, 17–37pp—Isa 36:1–22 18:17–35pp—2Ch 32:9–19

¹⁷The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander,^o his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool,^p on the road to the Washerman’s Field. ¹⁸They called for the king; and Eliakim^q son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna^r the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.

¹⁹The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:

“ ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence^s of yours?

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Footnotes

cThat is, about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons
dThat is, about 1 ton or about 1 metric ton

Cross references

iSee ver 2
j Isa 1:7; Mic 1:9
k 2 Ki 19:8
l Isa 24:5; 33:8
mSee 1 Ki 15:18; Isa 39:2
n 2 Ch 29:3
o Isa 20:1
p 2 Ki 20:20; 2 Ch 32:4, 30; Ne 2:14; Isa 22:9
q 2 Ki 19:2; Isa 22:20; 36:3, 11, 22; 37:2
rver 26, 37; Isa 22:15
sSee ver 5; See Job 4:6