2 Kings 18:14-16
18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. 1 If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” 2 So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents 3 of silver and thirty talents of gold.
18:15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in 4 the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
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 5 and gave them to the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 18:31
18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. 6 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
1 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
2 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
3 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 22,500 pounds of silver and 2,250 pounds of gold.
4 tn Heb “that was found.”
5 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the Lord’s temple, and the posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had plated.”
6 tn Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”