2 Kings 14:19

14:19 Conspirators plotted against him in Jerusalem,¹ so he fled to Lachish. But they sent assassins after him² and they killed him there.

2 Kings 19:8

19:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning.³

2 Kings 18:14

18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty.⁴ If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.”⁵ So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents⁶ of silver and thirty talents of gold.

2 Kings 18:17

18:17 The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser⁷ from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem,⁸ along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went⁹ and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.¹⁰

¹tn Heb “and they conspired against him [with] a conspiracy in Jerusalem.”

²tn Heb “and they sent after him to Lachish.”

³tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”

⁵tn Or “I have done wrong.”

⁶tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”

⁷tn The Hebrew term כִּכָּר (kikkar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or to a standard unit of weight, generally regarded as a talent. Since the accepted weight for a talent of metal is about 75 pounds, this would have amounted to about 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.

⁷sn For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.

⁸map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁹tn Heb “and they went up and came.”

¹⁰tn Heb “the field of the washer.”