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2 Kings 18:12-14
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12 This happened because they did not obey[a] the Lord their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded.[b]

Sennacherib Invades Judah

13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty.[c] If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.”[d] So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay 300 talents[e] of silver and thirty talents of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”
  2. 2 Kings 18:12 tn Heb “all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded, and they did not listen and they did not act.”
  3. 2 Kings 18:14 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
  4. 2 Kings 18:14 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
  5. 2 Kings 18:14 tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.
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