2 Kings 18:1 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיְהִי֙	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בִּשְׁנַ֣ת	bish.Nat	in year	H8141 →
שָׁלֹ֔שׁ	sha.Losh	three	H7969 →
לְהוֹשֵׁ֥עַ	le.ho.She.a'	of Hoshea	H1954 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[the] son of	H1121 →
אֵלָ֖ה	'e.Lah	Elah	H425 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
מָלַ֛ךְ	ma.Lakh	he became king	H4427 →
חִזְקִיָּ֥ה	chiz.ki.Yah	Hezekiah	H2396 →
בֶן־	ven-	[the] son of	H1121 →
אָחָ֖ז	'a.Chaz	Ahaz	H271 →
מֶ֥לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
יְהוּדָֽה׃	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Chronicles 28:27
And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 21:20
  Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the…
- 2 Chronicles 24:25
  And when the Arameans had withdrawn, they left Joash severely wounded. His own servants conspired against him for shedding the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they killed him on his…
Through
2 Kings 15:30
Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.
leads to
- 2 Kings 17:1
  In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahaz over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria nine years.
Through
2 Kings 16:20
And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
leads to
- Matthew 1:9
  Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.
- Isaiah 1:1
  This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Through
1 Chronicles 3:13
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
leads to
- 2 Kings 16:1
  In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 29:1
  Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
- 2 Chronicles 33:1
  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

2 Chronicles 28:27And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.Jeremiah 3:12Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.Matthew 1:9–10Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.1 Chronicles 3:13Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,Isaiah 1:1This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.2 Kings 16:20And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.2 Kings 15:30Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.2 Kings 18:9In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.2 Kings 16:2Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

Evidence2

What the record shows

Hezekiah — attested in contemporary inscriptionundisputed
Sennacherib's Prisms ('shut up like a bird in a cage'); Ophel royal bulla (Mazar, scientifically excavated)
Biblical figure (King of Judah, 726-697/696 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.
Hezekiah Bulla (Ophel)undisputed
Ophel, south of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem · Israel Antiquities Authority
Counterpoint: This bulla came out of Eilat Mazar's controlled excavation and wet-sifting, so its authenticity is not in question â€” but it was recovered from fill rather than a sealed floor, so it dates the seal, not the layer. The caution scholars do raise concerns the other Hezekiah bullae that surfaced on the antiquities market with no findspot; Christopher Rollston has argued such unprovenanced pieces should not be used as evidence at all.

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