He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years; his mother’s name was AbiaAbi Cf. 2 Chron. 29.1 “Abijah.” daughter of Zechariah.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בןעשרים
672
וחמש
354
שנה
355
היה
20
במלכו
98
ועשרים
626
ותשע
776
שנה
355
מלך
90
בירושלם
588
ושם
346
אמו
47
אבי
13
בתזכריה
644
II Kings 18:3
Gematria: 2048
ויעשהישרבעינייהוהככלאשרעשהדודאביו
He did what was pleasing to GOD, just as his forefather David had done.
He abolished the shrines and smashed the pillars and cut down the sacred post.bsacred post See note at 13.6. He also broke into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until that time the Israelites had been offering sacrifices to it; it was called Nehushtan.
He trusted only in the ETERNAL the God of Israel; there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those before him.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ביהוה
28
אלהיישראל
587
בטח
19
ואחריו
231
לאהיה
51
כמהו
71
בכל
52
מלכי
100
יהודה
30
ואשר
507
היו
21
לפניו
176
II Kings 18:6
Gematria: 3188
וידבקביהוהלאסרמאחריווישמרמצותיואשרצוהיהוהאתמשה
He clung to GOD; he did not hesitate to be directed,chesitate to be directed Lit. “turn away from following Him.” but kept the commandments that GOD had given to Moses.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבק
122
ביהוה
28
לאסר
291
מאחריו
265
וישמר
556
מצותיו
552
אשרצוה
602
יהוה
26
אתמשה
746
II Kings 18:7
Gematria: 2170
והיהיהוהעמובכלאשריצאישכילוימרדבמלךאשורולאעבדו
And GOD was always with him; he was successful wherever he turned. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והיה
26
יהוה
26
עמו
116
בכל
52
אשריצא
602
ישכיל
370
וימרד
260
במלךאשור
599
ולא
37
עבדו
82
II Kings 18:8
Gematria: 3201
הואהכהאתפלשתיםעדעזהואתגבוליהממגדלנוצריםעדעירמבצרפ
He overran Philistia as far as Gaza and its border areas, from watchtower to fortified town.
In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of King Hoshea son of Elah of Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it,
and hedhe So some mss. and ancient versions; most mss. and editions read “they.” captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of King Hoshea of Israel, Samaria was captured;
and the king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them inesettled them in Lit. “led them to.” Halah, along the Habor [and] the River Gozan, and in the towns of Media.
[This happened] because they did not obey the ETERNAL their God; they transgressed God’s covenant—all that Moses the servant of GOD had commanded. They did not obey and they did not fulfill it.
King Hezekiah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong; withdraw from me; and I shall bear whatever you impose on me.” So the king of Assyria imposed upon King Hezekiah of Judah a payment of three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלח
354
חזקיה
130
מלךיהודה
120
אלמלךאשורלכישהלאמרחטאתי
1692
שוב
308
מעלי
150
את
401
אשרתתן
1351
עלי
110
אשא
302
וישם
356
מלךאשור
597
עלחזקיה
230
מלךיהודה
120
שלש
630
מאות
447
ככרכסף
400
ושלשים
686
ככר
240
זהב
14
II Kings 18:15
Gematria: 3048
ויתןחזקיהאתכלהכסףהנמצאביתיהוהובאצרותביתהמלך
Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was on hand in the House of GOD and in the treasuries of the palace.
At that time Hezekiah cut down the doors and the doorpostsfdoorposts Meaning of Heb. uncertain. of the Temple of GOD, which King Hezekiah had overlaid [with gold], and gave them to the king of Assyria.
But the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the RabshakehgTartan…Rabsaris…Rabshakeh Assyrian titles. from Lachish with a large force to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. They marched up to Jerusalem; and when they arrived, they took up a position near the conduit of the Upper Pool, by the road of the Fuller’s Field.
They summoned the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.
You rely, of all things, on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which enters and punctures the palm of anyone who leans on it! That’s what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like to all who rely on him.
And if you tell me that you are relying on the ETERNAL your God: is this not the very one whose shrines and altars Hezekiah did away with, telling Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship only at this altar in Jerusalem’?
Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah replied to the Rabshakeh, “Please, speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; do not speak to us in Judean in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
But the Rabshakeh answered them, “Was it to your master and to you that my master sent me to speak those words? It was precisely to the men who are sitting on the wall—who will have to eat their dung and drink their urine with you.”
And the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in Judean: “Hear the words of the Great King, the King of Assyria.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעמד
130
רבשקה
607
ויקרא
317
בקולגדול
181
יהודית
435
וידבר
222
ויאמר
257
שמעו
416
דברהמלך
301
הגדול
48
מלך
90
אשור
507
II Kings 18:29
Gematria: 1742
כהאמרהמלךאלישאלכםחזקיהוכילאיוכללהצילאתכםמידו
Thus said the king: Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from myhmy So several mss. and ancient versions; most mss. and editions read “his.” hands.
Don’t listen to Hezekiah. For thus said the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me,ito me I.e., to my representative the Rabshakeh. so that you may all eat from your vines and your fig trees and drink water from your cisterns,
until I come and take you away to a land like your own, a land of grain [fields] and vineyards, of bread and wine, of olive oil and honey, so that you may live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, who misleads you by saying, ‘GOD will save us.’
Word-by-Word Analysis
עדבאי
87
ולקחתי
554
אתכם
461
אלארץ
322
כארצכם
371
ארץ
291
דגן
57
ותירוש
922
ארץ
291
לחם
78
וכרמים
316
ארץ
291
זית
417
יצהר
305
ודבש
312
וחיו
30
ולא
37
תמתו
846
ואלתשמעו
853
אלחזקיהו
167
כייסית
510
אתכם
461
לאמר
271
יהוה
26
יצילנו
196
II Kings 18:33
Gematria: 2041
ההצלהצילואלהיהגויםאישאתארצומידמלךאשור
Did any of the gods of other nations save their land from the king of Assyria?
Where were the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? [And] did theyjthey I.e., the gods of Samaria. save Samaria from me?
And so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and they reported to him what the Rabshakeh had said.