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2 Kings 18:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. "

2 Kings 18:8

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6 For he joined with the LORD. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

7 The LORD was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

8 He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

10 At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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2 Chronicles 26:6

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"He went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines."

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2 Samuel 5:25

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"David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer."

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1 Maccabees 5:66

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"He marched to go into the land of the Philistines, and he went through Samaria."

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1 Maccabees 11:61

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"He departed from there to Gaza, and the people of Gaza shut him out. So he besieged it and burned its pasture lands with fire, and plundered them."

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1 Samuel 17:52

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"The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron."

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Judges 1:18

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"Also Judah took Gaza with its border, and Ashkelon with its border, and Ekron with its border."

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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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