2 Kings 18:13-17
Sennacherib Attacks Judah
13 aIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” bAnd the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15And Hezekiah dgave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17And the king of Assyria sent the eTartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by fthe conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 2 Chronicles 28:16-21
16 gAt that time King Ahaz sent to the king ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 2 Kings 16:7); Hebrew kings
of Assyria for help. 17For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives. 18 iAnd the Philistines had made raids on jthe cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco kwith its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. 19For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made lJudah act sinfully ▼▼Or wildly
and had been very unfaithful to the Lord. 20So nTiglath-pileser ▼▼Hebrew Tilgath-pilneser
king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him. 21 pFor Ahaz took a portion from the house of the Lord and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him. Isaiah 10:5-6
Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, qthe rod of my anger;the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a rgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take sspoil and seize plunder,
and to ttread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 17:14
14 uAt evening time, behold, terror!Before morning, they are no more!
This is the portion of those who loot us,
and the lot of those who plunder us.
Isaiah 24:16
16 vFrom the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise,of glory to wthe Righteous One.
But I say, “I waste away,
I waste away. Woe is me!
For xthe traitors have betrayed,
with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”
Habakkuk 2:5-8
5 “Moreover, wine ▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth
is za traitor,an arrogant man who is never at rest. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death abhe has never enough.
acHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”
Woe to the Chaldeans
6Shall not all these adtake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,ae“Woe to him afwho heaps up what is not his own—
for aghow long?—
and ahloads himself with pledges!”
7 aiWill not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 ajBecause you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
akfor the blood of man and alviolence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
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