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2 Kings 18:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. "
2 Kings 18:13
Verse in Context
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11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
12 because they didn’t obey the LORD their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it or do it.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Withdraw from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the LORD’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house.
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2 Kings 18:1
"Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign."
2 Kings 18:2
"He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah."
2 Kings 18:3
"He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done."
2 Kings 18:4
"He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan."
2 Kings 18:5
"He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him."
2 Kings 18:6
"For he joined with the LORD. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses."
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