2 Kings 18:13

Contextual Overview

⁹In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Assyria’s King Shalmaneser marched against Samaria and besieged it. ⁹ It happened in the fourth year of king Hizkiyahu, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Yisra'el, that Shalman'eser king of Ashshur came up against Shomron, and besieged it. ⁹ 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. ⁹ In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, ⁹ Shalmaneser king of Assyria surrounded Samaria and attacked it in the fourth year Hezekiah was king. This was the seventh year Hoshea son of Elah was king of Israel. ⁹ In the fourth year of King Hezekiah's reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel's King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched up against Samaria and besieged it. ⁹Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser the king of Assyria went up against Samaria and besieged it. ⁹ Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. ⁹ It happened 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. ⁹ And in the fourth yere of King Hezekiah, (which was the seuenth yeere of Hoshea sonne of Elah King of Israel) Shalmaneser King of Asshur came vp against Samaria, and besieged it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3291, bc 713

the fourteenth: 2 Chronicles 32:1-23, Isaiah 36:1-22

Sennacherib: Heb. Sanherib

come up: Isaiah 7:17-25, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 10:5, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 12:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:52 - General 2 Kings 17:3 - king of Assyria 2 Kings 19:4 - the remnant 2 Chronicles 32:4 - kings Isaiah 10:27 - his burden Isaiah 28:19 - the time Isaiah 33:1 - thee that Isaiah 33:8 - he hath despised Jeremiah 34:7 - Lachish Hosea 8:14 - I will send Micah 1:13 - Lachish Nahum 1:11 - one

Cross-References

John 2:25
and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.

John 2:25
And needed not that any should testifie of man: for hee knew what was in man.

John 2:25
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

John 2:25
and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

John 2:25
and because He did not need anyone to testify about mankind, for He Himself knew what was in mankind.

John 2:25
He did not need anyone to tell him about people, because he knew what was in people's minds.

John 2:25
and He did not need anyone to testify concerning man [and human nature], for He Himself knew what was in man [in their hearts—in the very core of their being].

John 2:25
and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

John 2:25
and because He had no need that anyone bear witness concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.

John 2:25
He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,.... Eight years after the captivity of Israel:

did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them; many of them, the frontier towns, and proceeded as far as Lachish; ambitious of enlarging his dominions, his father having subdued the kingdom of Israel, and being also provoked by Hezekiah's refusing to pay him tribute. Mention is made of this king by name, by Herodotus and other Heathen writers, see the note on Isaiah 36:1 in the Apocryha:

"Now when Enemessar was dead, Sennacherib his son reigned in his stead; whose estate was troubled, that I could not go into Media.'' (Tobit 1:15)

he is called Sennacherib, and is said to be son of Enemassat, that is, Shalmaneser; however, he succeeded him in his kingdom; though some o take him to be the same with Shalmaneser: he is said by Metasthenes p to reign seven years, and was succeeded by Assaradon, who, according to him, reigned ten years.

o Lud. Vives in Aug. de Civ. Dei, l. 18. c. 24. p De Judicio Temp. fol. 221. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the fourteenth year - This note of time, which places the invasion of Sennacherib eight years only after the capture of Samaria, is hopelessly at variance with the Assyrian dates for the two events, the first of which falls into the first of Sargon, and the second into the fourth of Sennacherib, twenty-one years later. We have therefore to choose between an entire rejection of the Assyrian chronological data, and an emendation of the present passage. Of the emendations proposed the simplest is to remove the note of time altogether, regarding it as having crept in from the margin.

Sennacherib - This is the Greek form of the Sinakhirib of the inscriptions, the son of Sargon, and his immediate successor in the monarchy. The death of Sargon (705 B.C.) had been followed by a number of revolts. Hezekiah also rebelled, invaded Philistia, and helped the national party in that country to throw off the Assyrian yoke.

From Sennacherib’s inscriptions we learn that, having reduced Phoenicia, recovered Ascalon, and defeated an army of Egyptians and Ethiopians at Ekron, he marched against Jerusalem.

The fenced cities - Sennacherib reckons the number taken by him at “forty-six.” He seems to have captured on his way to the holy city a vast number of small towns and villages, whose inhabitants he carried off to the number of 200, 000. Compare Isaiah 24:1-12. The ground occupied by his main host outside the modern Damascus gate was thenceforth known to the Jews as “the camp of the Assyrians.” Details connected with the siege may be gathered from Isaiah 22:0 and Chronicles (marginal reference “s”). After a while Hezekiah resolved on submission. Sennacherib 2 Kings 18:14 had left his army to continue the siege, and gone in person to Lachish. The Jewish monarch sent his embassy to that town.