Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 18:1-37
Chapter 18In 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 actually with now the southern kingdom of Judah which still remains. And as we move south, we find that Hezekiah is coming to reign over Judah.He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the... read more
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 18:13-37
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 18:13. In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah did Sennacherib, &c.—Comp. Isaiah 36:0. This mighty Assyrian was with his vast army on his way to war with his hated and dreaded rival, Egypt. Judah lay in the line of his march, and its conquest was essential to his safe advance to Egypt. Hezekiah trembled as this terrible foe swept down upon the land; and being without support from Egypt, he purchased temporary respite by a heavy tribute valuing £351,000, to... read more