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These verses repeat the account given in the marginal reference. The
extreme importance of the event may account for the double insertion....
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IV. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH AND AMON
1. Hezekiah and Sennacherib's Invasion
CHAPTER 18
_ 1. Hezekiah, King of Judah (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 2 Chron. 29-32)_
2. The Revival (2 Kings 18:4)
3...
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2 KINGS 18-20. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH. These three Chapter s give an
account of the reign of the best king of Judah, and a parallel but
somewhat less full account is found in Isaiah 36-39. There is ano...
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THE END OF THREE YEARS. See note on 2 Kings 17:5.
THEY. Septuagint and Syriac read "he": i.e. Sargon. See note on 2
Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 17:6. Sargon took it after Shalmanoser's death....
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_at the end of three years they took it_ The consonants of the word
rendered -they took it" might, if different vowel points were added to
them, be translated -he took it". That the vowels for the plu...
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I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH 18:1-12
TRANSLATION
(1) And it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah
king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah be...
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_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._
At the end of three years they took it - not Hebr...
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HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB
This chapter describes the reign of Hezekiah of Judah, his religious
reforms, and the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
who sent one of his officers to deman...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 18
HEZEKIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH
V1 Hezekiah, Ahaz’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. He did so
in the 3rd y...
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(9-12) The account of the captivity of northern Israel is repeated
here, because the editor faithfully reproduces what he found in the
abstract of the _Judœan_ history of the kings. (Comp. 2 Kings 17:...
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THEY TOOK IT_ — i.e.,_ the Assyrians took it. This reading is
preferable to that of the LXX., Syriac, and Vulg. (“he took it”),
as it was Sargon, not Shalman-eser, who took the city. Schrader is too
p...
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וַֽ יִּלְכְּדֻ֗הָ מִ קְצֵה֙ שָׁלֹ֣שׁ
שָׁנִ֔ים...
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HEZEKIAH
B.C. 715-686
2 Kings 18:1
"For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong
in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great
and faithful in his visi...
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A RESOLUTE RELIGIOUS REFORMER
2 Kings 18:1
It is wonderful that such a man as Ahaz should have had so good a son,
but it is likely that Hezekiah had a good mother. See 2 Chronicles
29:1; 2 Chronicles...
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We now begin the third section of this Book, which includes the story
of the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah, with a period of reaction and
sin between the two. It is remarkable that such a man as Hezek...
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This is a kind of parenthesis to what went before, and what follows:
for it repeats what the former chapter related, the capture of
Samaria; and is no further connected with the history of Judah, than...
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The kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, was now closed, not for ever, but
for a season, and a season protracted long, even unto this day. There
has been no restoration save in individuals. We know that Jeh...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19.
Chapter 18 brings us to a rather different subject, namely, the
relations of Judah with the Assyrian, who had become their oppressor
through their...
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AND AT THE END OF THREE YEARS THEY TOOK IT,.... That is, at the first
end of them, at the beginning, in which sense the phrase is taken in
Deuteronomy 15:1, even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is...
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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.
Ver. 10. _And at the end of three years._] See...
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1 Hezekiah his good reigne.
4 He destroyeth idolatrie, and prospereth.
9 Samaria is caried captiue for their sins.
13 Sennacherib inuading Iudah, is pacified by a tribute.
17 Rabshakeh sent by Sen...
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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....
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THE ASSYRIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM...
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THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH IN JUDAH
(vv.1-16)
In Judah the reign of Hezekiah provided a refreshing relief to the
tendency of departure from God. It was during his reign that Assyria
took Samaria into cap...
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9-16 The descent Sennacherib made upon Judah, was a great calamity to
that kingdom, by which God would try the faith of Hezekiah, and
chastise the people. The secret dislike, the hypocrisy, and
lukewa...
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2 Kings 18:10 end H7097 three H7969 years H8141 took H3920 (H8799)
sixth H8337 year H8141 Hezekiah H2396 ninth...
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A REMINDER OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HOSHEA AND SAMARIA, WHICH
HIGHLIGHTS BOTH JERUSALEM'S OWN SUBSEQUENT ESCAPE, AND HEZEKIAH'S
SUCCESSFUL CONTRASTING REIGN (2 KINGS 18:9).
In preparing for what is to...
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2 Kings 18:9
I. In the time of David and Solomon, the small people of the Jews
became a very powerful nation, respected and feared by all the
kingdoms round. But when they fell into idolatry and forso...
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CONTENTS: Reign and revival of Hezekiah over Judah. Victory over
Phillistines. Invasion of Sennacherib. Insolence of Rab-shekeh.
CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Eliakim,...
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2 Kings 18:4. _Nehushtan;_ that is, _their brass,_ or mere brass, or
_parvum æs,_ corrupted brass, by way of contempt. In the Chronicum of
Alexander, cited by Eusebius out of Anestasio Niceno, we are...
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_At the end of three years they took it._
THE GAINS OF PERSEVERANCE
I do admire the perseverance of Shalmaneser and his successor. For
three years they battered at its doors and waited patiently for...
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_Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea._
A STRIKING REFORMATION, A RUTHLESS DESPOTISM, AND AN UNPRINCIPLED
DIPLOMACY
I. A striking reformation (2 Kings 18:3).
1. The perverting tendency of...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:1 Hezekiah. In 715 B.C., seven years
after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, Hezekiah comes to
the throne in Judah. He resembles David more closely than any other...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:9 SHALMANESER KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UP
AGAINST SAMARIA. The verses repeat the story of how the northern
kingdom fell (see 2 Kings 17:1). Th
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THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH THE GOOD
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 18:1. HEZEKIAH THE SON OF AHAZ BEGAN TO REIGN—See Note on
chap. 2 Kings 16:2 as to the age of Ahaz.
2 Kings 18:4. He removed t...
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EXPOSITION
18-25
THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA.
2 KINGS 18:1
THE ACCESSION
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In chapter eighteen we now move back to the southern kingdom of Judah.
Inasmuch as the northern kingdom has now been destroyed from the rest
of the... from the rest of Second Kings on we'll be dealing...
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Amos 3:11; Amos 4:1; Amos 6:7; Amos 9:1; Hosea 13:16;...