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Second Book of Kings, Chapter 18

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2 Kings 18 NASB - New American Standard Bible2 Kings 18 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 18 of 2 Kings—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now it came about 1in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that 2Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.
  2. He was 3twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
  3. 4He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.
  4. 5He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the [a]Asherah. He also broke in pieces 6the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called [b]Nehushtan.
  5. 7He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; 8so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.
  6. For he 9clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.
  7. 10And the LORD was with him; wherever he went he prospered. And 11he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
  8. 12He [c]defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from 13watchtower to fortified city.
  9. ¶ Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, 14Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
  10. At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was 15the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
  11. Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in 16Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
  12. because they 17did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.
  13. 18Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.
  14. Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “19I have done wrong. [d]Withdraw from me; whatever you [e]impose on me I will bear.” So the king of Assyria [f]required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
  15. 20Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
  16. At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
  17. ¶ Then the king of Assyria sent 21Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the 22conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the [g]fuller’s field.
  18. When they called to the king, 23Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and 24Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.
  19. ¶ Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “25What is this confidence that you [h]have?
  20. You say (but they are [i]only empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, 26that you have rebelled against me?
  21. Now behold, you [j]27rely on the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his [k]hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.
  22. But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and 28whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
  23. Now therefore, [l]come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
  24. How then can you [m]repulse one [n]official of the least of my master’s servants, and [o]rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
  25. Have I now come up [p]without the LORD’S approval against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”
  26. ¶ Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we [q]understand it; and do not speak with us in [r]29Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
  27. But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
  28. ¶ Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, [s]saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
  29. Thus says the king, ‘30Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from [t]my hand;
  30. nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
  31. Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “[u]Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat 31each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
  32. until I come and take you away 32to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”
  33. 33Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
  34. 34Where are the gods of Hamath and 35Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and [v]36Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  35. Who among all the gods of the lands [w]have delivered their land from my hand, 37that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’”
  36. ¶ But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”
  37. Then 38Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah 39with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity
  2. ^ I.e. a piece of bronze
  3. ^ Lit smote
  4. ^ Lit Return
  5. ^ Lit give
  6. ^ Lit put on
  7. ^ I.e. launderer’s
  8. ^ Lit trust
  9. ^ Lit a word of the lips
  10. ^ Lit rely for yourself
  11. ^ Lit palm
  12. ^ Lit please exchange pledges
  13. ^ Lit turn away the face of
  14. ^ Or governor
  15. ^ Lit rely for yourself
  16. ^ Lit without the Lord
  17. ^ Lit hear
  18. ^ I.e. Hebrew
  19. ^ Lit and spoke, saying,
  20. ^ Heb his
  21. ^ Lit Make with me a blessing
  22. ^ In 2 Kin 17:24, Avva
  23. ^ Lit who have

REFERENCES

  1. ^ 2Ki 16:2; 17:1
  2. ^ 2Ch 28:27
  3. ^ 2Ch 29:1, 2
  4. ^ 2Ki 20:3; 2Ch 31:20
  5. ^ 2Ki 18:22; 2Ch 31:1
  6. ^ Nu 21:8, 9
  7. ^ 2Ki 19:10
  8. ^ 2Ki 23:25
  9. ^ De 10:20; Jos 23:8
  10. ^ Ge 39:2, 3; 1Sa 18:14
  11. ^ 2Ki 16:7
  12. ^ 2Ch 28:18; Is 14:29
  13. ^ 2Ki 17:9
  14. ^ 2Ki 17:3-7
  15. ^ 2Ki 17:6
  16. ^ 1Ch 5:26
  17. ^ 1Ki 9:6; Da 9:6, 10
  18. ^ 2Ch 32:1; Is 36:1-39:8
  19. ^ 2Ki 18:7
  20. ^ 1Ki 15:18, 19; 2Ki 12:18; 16:8
  21. ^ Is 20:1
  22. ^ 2Ki 20:20; Is 7:3
  23. ^ 2Ki 19:2; Is 22:20
  24. ^ Is 22:15
  25. ^ 2Ch 32:10
  26. ^ 2Ki 18:7
  27. ^ Is 30:2, 3, 7; Eze 29:6, 7
  28. ^ 2Ki 18:4; 2Ch 31:1
  29. ^ Ezr 4:7; Da 2:4
  30. ^ 2Ch 32:15
  31. ^ 1Ki 4:20, 25
  32. ^ De 8:7-9; 11:12
  33. ^ 2Ki 19:12; Is 10:10, 11
  34. ^ 2Ki 19:13
  35. ^ Is 10:9
  36. ^ 2Ki 17:24
  37. ^ Ps 2:1-3; 59:7
  38. ^ 2Ki 18:26
  39. ^ 2Ki 6:30

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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