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The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:13-17

The danger of trusting to a purchased peace. I. IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONS a purchased peace is seldom more enduring or more trustworthy than this peace which Hezekiah bought of Sennacherib. Once successful in extorting money by threats, why should an enemy refrain from repeating the process? Why should he stop till he has squeezed the sponge dry, and there is no more to be got from his victim? Even then, why should he not step in and execute his original threat of destruction and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:13-17

Sennacherib's first assault. We enter in this passage on the consideration of one of the most memorable crises Judah ever passed through. The Assyrian, the rod of God's anger ( Isaiah 10:4 ), hung over Jerusalem, showing how near destruction it was if God did not interpose. A mighty deliverance was vouchsafed, showing how inviolable was its security if only fleshly confidence was renounced, and the people put their trust in the living God. I. SENNACHERIB 'S EARLY SUCCESSES : ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:14

And Hezekiah King of Judah sent to the King of Assyria to Lachish, saying. (On the position of Lachish, see the comment upon 2 Kings 14:19 .) A bas-relief in the British Museum is thought to represent Sennacherib at the siege of Lachish. He is seated on a highly ornamented throne, and is engaged in receiving prisoners. The city is represented as strongly fortified, and as attacked with sealing-ladders and battering-rams. The surrender is taking place, and the captives of importance are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:15

And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house. Ahaz had exhausted both these stores of wealth about thirty years previously ( 2 Kings 16:8 ), and there could not have been very much accumulation since. Hence the stripping of the metal-plating from off the temple doors (see the next verse). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:16

At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah King of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the King of Assyria. In the time of his great wealth and prosperity, Hezekiah, while engaged in restoring the temple ( 2 Chronicles 29:17-19 ), had adorned the pillars and doors of the sanctuary with a metal covering, which was probably gold, like Solomon's ( 1 Kings 6:20-22 , 1 Kings 6:28 , 1 Kings 6:30 , 1 Kings 6:32 ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17

And the King of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. Sennacherib appears, by his great inscription, to have returned to Nineveh, with his Judaean captives (more than two hundred thousand in number) and his rich booty, towards the close of the year B.C. 701. In the following year he was called into Babylonia, where troubles had broken out, and Hezekiah, left to himself, seems to have made up his mind to revolt, and ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17-37

SECOND EXPEDITION OF SENNACHERIB . This section and 2 Kings 19:1-37 . form one continuous narrative, which can only have been divided on account of its great length (fifty-eight verses). The subject is one throughout, viz. Sennacherib's second expedition against Hezekiah. The narrative flows on without a break. It consists of read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17-37

The tempter and his methods: Rabshakeh's address to the leaders and people of Jerusalem. Hezekiah's gift to the King of Assyria had not saved him. The weakness he showed was rather an encouragement to Sennacherib to continue his attacks upon Judaea. And now a detachment of Sennacherib's army, headed by three officers of rank, comes up to Jerusalem. Their first effort is to induce the people of Jerusalem to surrender. Rabshakeh is the spokesman. His speech is like the speech of a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17-37

Rabshakeh's boastings. From Lachish Sennacherib sent an army to Jerusalem, and with it some of his highest officers, the Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh. Taking their stand by "the conduit of the upper pool," where they could be heard from the walls, they called for the king to come to them. Hezekiah did not come, but sent three envoys, Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah, to whom Rabshakeh, the orator of the party, addressed himself. His speech is a very skilful one from his own point of view, and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:14

Return from me - Or “retire from me,” i. e., “withdraw thy troops.”Three hundred talents ... - According to Sennacherib’s own account, the terms of peace were as follows:(1) A money payment to the amount of 800 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold.(2) the surrender of the Ekronite king.(3) a cession of territory toward the west and the southwest, which was apportioned between the kings of Ekron, Ashdod, and Gaza. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:13-17

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:13-17

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:14

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:15

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:16

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17-37

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17-37

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:17-37

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:14

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