2 Kings 16:20

16:20 Ahaz passed away¹ and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. His son Hezekiah replaced him as king.

2 Kings 18:1

Hezekiah Becomes King of Judah

18:1 In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.

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 18:19

18:19 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?²

2 Kings 18:29

18:29 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you from my hand!³

2 Kings 19:9

19:9 The king⁴ heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him.⁵ He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

2 Kings 19:20

19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria.⁶

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you⁷ faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,⁸ and how I have carried out your will.”⁹ Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.¹⁰

2 Kings 20:10

20:10 Hezekiah answered, “It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it¹¹ to go back ten steps.”

2 Kings 20:15

20:15 Isaiah¹² asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything¹³ in my treasuries.”

¹tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

²tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

³tc The MT has “his hand,” but this is due to graphic confusion of vav (ו) and yod (י). The translation reads “my hand,” along with many medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac Peshitta, Targum, and Vulgate.

⁴tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘Look, he has come out to fight with you.’”

⁶tn Heb “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in the parallel passage in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense, “because.”

⁷tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

⁸tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

⁹tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

¹⁰tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

¹¹tn Heb “the shadow.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³tn Heb “there was nothing I did not show them.”