2 Kings 18:13 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 18:13

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

KJV

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ASV

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

WEB

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

YLT

And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah hath Sennacherib king of Asshur come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them,

DBT

And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

About this book

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2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

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Isaiah 36:1
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Isaiah 10:27
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
Nahum 1:11
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord, a wicked counsellor.
2 Chronicles 32:1
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
Jeremiah 34:7
When the king of Babylon’s army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

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The king of Assyria took all or most of the fenced cities of Judah, the frontier-towns and the garrisons, and then all the rest fell into his hands of course. The confusion which the country was put into by this invasion is described by the prophet, Isa. x.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Among the interesting illustrations of sacred history furnished by the recent Assyrian excavations, is a series of bas-reliefs, representing the siege of a town, which the inscription on the sculpture shows to be Lachish, and the figure of a king, whose name is given, on the same inscription, as Sennacherib.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Connections1

Where this verse connects

Archaeology Corroboration Isaiah 36:1
Hezekiah's reign externally anchored: Sennacherib's Prisms + Lachish reliefs (701 BC campaign) and the scientifically-excavated Ophel Hezekiah bulla; grounds the reformer-king of the Nehushtan panel as a real, datable figure.
Luckenbill, Annals of Sennacherib (OIP 2, 1924); E. Mazar, Ophel Excavations (2015); lens 41

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Evidence3

What the record shows

Sennacherib — attested in contemporary inscriptiontier 1 · undisputed
Rassam Cylinder, Taylor/Oriental Institute/Jerusalem Prisms; Lachish reliefs
Biblical figure (King of Assyria, 704-681 BC) identified in extra-biblical epigraphy.
Sennacherib's Prisms (Taylor / Oriental Institute / Jerusalem)tier 1 · undisputed
Nineveh (Kuyunjik) · British Museum (Taylor Prism); Oriental Institute, Chicago (OIP Prism); Israel Museum (Jerusalem Prism)
Sennacherib's campaign (701 BC)tier 1 · undisputed
Sennacherib Prism / Lachish reliefs
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