2 Kings 18:14
And Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent to Lachish, to the king of Assyria, saying, I have done wrong; give up attacking me, and whatever you put on me I will undergo. And the payment he was to make was fixed by the king of Assyria at three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
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15So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.
Cross References
1 Kings 20:4And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have.
2 Kings 14:19Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.
2 Kings 18:7And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.
Luke 14:32Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 18:10-17
Sennacherib Invades Judea. ( b. c. 726.) 9 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. 10 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. 11 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… Read the whole commentary →