2 Kings 18:14-16

The Voice

¹⁴ Hezekiah (Judah’s king) sent a message to Sennacherib at Lachish.

Assyria’s king demanded 11 tons of silver and one ton of gold from Hezekiah, king of Judah. ¹⁵ Hezekiah gathered up all the silver he could find in the Eternal’s temple and in the palace treasuries; and he gave it to Assyria’s king, just as he had demanded. ¹⁶ He even stripped the gold off the Eternal’s temple doors and doorposts that he had gilded, and he handed it over to Assyria’s king.