2 Kings 15:19

15:19 Pul ¹  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ²  him ³  a thousand talents ⁴  of silver to gain his support ⁵  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ⁶ 

2 Kings 16:8

16:8 Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were ⁷  in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute ⁸  to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 16:18

16:18 He also removed the Sabbath awning ⁹  that had been built ¹⁰  in the temple and the king’s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria. ¹¹ 

2 Kings 18:11

18:11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel ¹²  to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.

2 Kings 18:13

Sennacherib Invades Judah

18:13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2 Kings 18:16

18:16 At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated ¹³  and gave them to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:23

18:23 Now make a deal ¹⁴  with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

2 Kings 18:28

18:28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, ¹⁵  “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:30

18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

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. ¹⁶ 

2 Kings 19:11

19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ¹⁷  Do you really think you will be rescued? ¹⁸ 

¹ sn Pul was a nickname of Tiglath-pileser III (cf. 15:29). See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 171-72.

² tn Heb “gave.”

³ tn Heb “Pul.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn 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 75,000 pounds of silver (cf. NCV “about seventy-four thousand pounds”); NLT “thirty-seven tons”; CEV “over thirty tons”; TEV “34,000 kilogrammes.”

⁵ tn Heb “so his hands would be with him.”

⁶ tn Heb “to keep hold of the kingdom in his hand.”

⁷ tn Heb “that was found.”

⁸ tn Or “bribe money.”

¹³ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term מוּסַךְ (musakh; Qere) / מִיסַךְ (misakh; Kethib) is uncertain. For discussion see HALOT 557 s.v. מוּסַךְ and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 189-90.

¹⁴ tn Heb “that they built.”

¹⁵ sn It is doubtful that Tiglath-pileser ordered these architectural changes. Ahaz probably made these changes so he could send some of the items and materials to the Assyrian king as tribute. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 190, 193.

¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.

²⁵ tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the Lord’s temple, and the posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had plated.”

³¹ tn Heb “exchange pledges.”

³⁷ tn The Hebrew text also has, “and he spoke and said.”

⁴³ tn 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.”

⁴⁹ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

⁵⁰ tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”