2 Kings 18:6
He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn from following Him; he kept the commandments that the LORD had given Moses.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 701 BC
WHEN
701 BC
dated by the text itself
Two independent sources, one biblical and one Assyrian, telling of the same siege and disagreeing only about how it ended.
WHO RULED
- Sennacherib king of Assyria 705-681 BC
- Hezekiah king of Judah 715-686 BC
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 18:13 dates itself by the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; the Sennacherib Prism dates the same campaign to 701 BC and names Hezekiah.
- Sennacherib — Taylor Prism (British Museum), in which he tells of besieging Jerusalem and names "Hezekiah, the Jew," but does not say he took the city
- Hezekiah — 2 Kings 18-20; the Sennacherib Prism, which names him; the Siloam tunnel and the inscription found in it, which record the work of 2 Kings 20:20
SEE ALSO
- Deuteronomy 10:20 You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
- Joshua 23:8 Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
- John 14:15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- Acts 11:23 When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- 2 Kings 17:13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law…
- John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- 2 Kings 17:16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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