Discovery Box2 Kings 18:9-16 
Context18:9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah’s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched 1 up against Samaria 2 and besieged it. 18:10 After three years he captured it (in the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign); in the ninth year of King Hoshea’s reign over Israel Samaria was captured. 18:11 The king of Assyria deported the people of Israel 3 to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes. 18:12 This happened because they did not obey 4 the Lord their God and broke his agreement with them. 5 They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the Lord’s servant, had commanded. 6
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. 18:14 King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty. 7 If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.” 8 So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay three hundred talents 9 of silver and thirty talents of gold. 18:15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver in 10 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 11 and gave them to the king of Assyria.
1 tn Heb “went” (also in v. 13).
2 map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.
3 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” as the object of the verb.
4 tn Heb “listen to the voice of.”
5 tn Heb “his covenant.”
6 tn Heb “all that Moses, the
7 tn Or “I have done wrong.”
8 tn Heb “Return from upon me; what you place upon me, I will carry.”
9 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.
10 tn Heb “that was found.”
11 tn Heb “At that time Hezekiah stripped the doors of the
