Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
2 Kings 18:9-12
These verses repeat the account given in the marginal reference. The extreme importance of the event may account for the double insertion.
These verses repeat the account given in the marginal reference. The extreme importance of the event may account for the double insertion.
Verse 2 Kings 18:9. _IN THE FOURTH YEAR_] This history has been already given, 2 Kings 17:3, c....
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...
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...
IT CAME TO PASS. Compare 2 Kings 17:3. SHALMANESER. Commenced the siege; Sargon, his successor, completed it after three years. Compare 2 Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 17:6, where we have the same interval as h...
Israel finally carried captive by Shalmaneser (Not in Chronicles) 9. _Shalmaneser … came up against Samaria and besieged it_ Probably the negotiations with So king of Egypt had still gone forward (2...
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...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF KING HEZEKIAH, WHICH WAS THE SEVENTH YEAR OF HOSHEA SON OF ELAH KING OF ISRAEL, THAT SHALMANESER KING OF ASSYRIA CAME UP AGAINST SAMARIA, AND BESIEGED IT._...
SHALMANESER.. CAME UP] 2 Kings 18:9 repeat in brief the account of the capture of Samaria already given in 2 Kings 17:5....
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...
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...
(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:...
וַֽ יְהִ֞י בַּ † שָּׁנָ֤ה הָֽ רְבִיעִית֙...
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...
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...
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...
_Samaria. The same history is given, chap. xvii. 3. (Calmet)_...
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...
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...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF KING HEZEKIAH,.... In the beginning of it: WHICH WAS THE SEVENTH YEAR OF HOSHEA SON OF ELAH KING OF ISRAEL: the beginning of his seventh: THAT SHALMANESER K...
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which [was] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it....
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...
THE ASSYRIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM...
And it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it....
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...
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...
THE SEVENTH YEAR OF HOSHEA; the seventh of those nine years expressed 2 KINGS 17:1....
2 Kings 18:9 fourth H7243 year H8141 King H4428 Hezekiah H2396 seventh H7637 year H8141 Hoshea H1954 son H1121 Elah
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...
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...
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,...
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...
_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...
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...
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
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...
EXPOSITION 18-25 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA. 2 KINGS 18:1 THE ACCESSION
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...
2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 17:4; 2 Kings 18:1; Hosea 10:14...