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[1] Now in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
[2] He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
[3] He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
[4] He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
[5] He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
[6] For he joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
[7] Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.
[8] He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
[9] In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.
[10] At the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
[11] The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
[12] because they didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.
[13] Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
[14] Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Withdraw from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents° of gold.
[15] Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house.
[16] At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
[17] The king of Assyria sent Tartan, Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
[18] When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.
[19] Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
[20] You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
[21] Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.
[22] But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
[23] Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
[24] How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
[25] Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ” ’ ”
[26] Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
[27] But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”
[28] Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
[29] The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
[30] Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
[31] Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;
[32] until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”
[33] Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
[34] Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
[35] Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”
[36] But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
[37] Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.

2 Kings 18:14 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces

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2 Kings 18 (KJVS)

[1] Now it came to pass in the third H7969 year H8141 of Hoshea H1954 son H1121 of Elah H425 king H4428 of Israel H3478, [that] Hezekiah H2396 the son H1121 of Ahaz H271 king H4428 of Judah H3063 began to reign H4427 (8804).
[2] Twenty H6242 and five H2568 years H8141 old H1121 was he when he began to reign H4427 (8800); and he reigned H4427 (8804) twenty H6242 and nine H8672 years H8141 in Jerusalem H3389. His mother’s H517 name H8034 also [was] Abi H21, the daughter H1323 of Zachariah H2148.
[3] And he did H6213 (8799) [that which was] right H3477 in the sight H5869 of the LORD H3068, according to all that David H1732 his father H1 did H6213 (8804).
[4] He removed H5493 (8689) the high places H1116, and brake H7665 (8765) the images H4676, and cut down H3772 (8804) the groves H842, and brake in pieces H3807 (8765) the brasen H5178 serpent H5175 that Moses H4872 had made H6213 (8804): for unto those days H3117 the children H1121 of Israel H3478 did burn incense H6999 (8764) to it: and he called H7121 (8799) it Nehushtan H5180.
[5] He trusted H982 (8804) in the LORD H3068 God H430 of Israel H3478; so that after H310 him was none like him among all the kings H4428 of Judah H3063, nor [any] that were before H6440 him.
[6] For he clave H1692 (8799) to the LORD H3068, [and] departed H5493 (8804) not from following H310 him, but kept H8104 (8799) his commandments H4687, which the LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (8765) Moses H4872.
[7] And the LORD H3068 was with him; [and] he prospered H7919 (8686) whithersoever he went forth H3318 (8799): and he rebelled H4775 (8799) against the king H4428 of Assyria H804, and served H5647 (8804) him not.
[8] He smote H5221 (8689) the Philistines H6430, [even] unto Gaza H5804, and the borders H1366 thereof, from the tower H4026 of the watchmen H5341 (8802) to the fenced H4013 city H5892.
[9] And it came to pass in the fourth H7243 year H8141 of king H4428 Hezekiah H2396, which [was] the seventh H7637 year H8141 of Hoshea H1954 son H1121 of Elah H425 king H4428 of Israel H3478, [that] Shalmaneser H8022 king H4428 of Assyria H804 came up H5927 (8804) against Samaria H8111, and besieged H6696 (8799) it.
[10] And at the end H7097 of three H7969 years H8141 they took H3920 (8799) it: [even] in the sixth H8337 year H8141 of Hezekiah H2396, that [is] the ninth H8672 year H8141 of Hoshea H1954 king H4428 of Israel H3478, Samaria H8111 was taken H3920 (8738).
[11] And the king H4428 of Assyria H804 did carry away H1540 (8686) Israel H3478 unto Assyria H804, and put H5148 (8686) them in Halah H2477 and in Habor H2249 [by] the river H5104 of Gozan H1470, and in the cities H5892 of the Medes H4074:
[12] Because they obeyed H8085 (8804) not the voice H6963 of the LORD H3068 their God H430, but transgressed H5674 (8799) his covenant H1285, [and] all that Moses H4872 the servant H5650 of the LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (8765), and would not hear H8085 (8804) [them], nor do H6213 (8804) [them].
[13] Now in the fourteenth H702 H6240 year H8141 of king H4428 Hezekiah H2396 did Sennacherib H5576 king H4428 of Assyria H804 come up H5927 (8804) against all the fenced H1219 (8803) cities H5892 of Judah H3063, and took H8610 (8799) them.
[14] And Hezekiah H2396 king H4428 of Judah H3063 sent H7971 (8799) to the king H4428 of Assyria H804 to Lachish H3923, saying H559 (8800), I have offended H2398 (8804); return H7725 (8798) from me: that which thou puttest H5414 (8799) on me will I bear H5375 (8799). And the king H4428 of Assyria H804 appointed H7760 (8799) unto Hezekiah H2396 king H4428 of Judah H3063 three H7969 hundred H3967 talents H3603 of silver H3701 and thirty H7970 talents H3603 of gold H2091.
[15] And Hezekiah H2396 gave H5414 (8799) [him] all the silver H3701 that was found H4672 (8737) in the house H1004 of the LORD H3068, and in the treasures H214 of the king’s H4428 house H1004.
[16] At that time H6256 did Hezekiah H2396 cut off H7112 (8765) [the gold from] the doors H1817 of the temple H1964 of the LORD H3068, and [from] the pillars H547 which Hezekiah H2396 king H4428 of Judah H3063 had overlaid H6823 (8765), and gave H5414 (8799) it to the king H4428 of Assyria H804.
[17] And the king H4428 of Assyria H804 sent H7971 (8799) Tartan H8661 and Rabsaris H7249 and Rabshakeh H7262 from Lachish H3923 to king H4428 Hezekiah H2396 with a great H3515 host H2426 against Jerusalem H3389. And they went up H5927 (8799) and came H935 (8799) to Jerusalem H3389. And when they were come up H5927 (8799), they came H935 (8799) and stood H5975 (8799) by the conduit H8585 of the upper H5945 pool H1295, which [is] in the highway H4546 of the fuller’s H3526 (8801) field H7704.
[18] And when they had called H7121 (8799) to the king H4428, there came out H3318 (8799) to them Eliakim H471 the son H1121 of Hilkiah H2518, which [was] over the household H1004, and Shebna H7644 the scribe H5608 (8802), and Joah H3098 the son H1121 of Asaph H623 the recorder H2142 (8688).
[19] And Rabshakeh H7262 said H559 (8799) unto them, Speak H559 (8798) ye now to Hezekiah H2396, Thus saith H559 (8804) the great H1419 king H4428, the king H4428 of Assyria H804, What confidence H986 [is] this wherein thou trustest H982 (8804)?
[20] Thou sayest H559 (8804), (but [they are but] vain H8193 words H1697,) [I have] counsel H6098 and strength H1369 for the war H4421. Now on whom dost thou trust H982 (8804), that thou rebellest H4775 (8804) against me?
[21] Now, behold, thou trustest H982 (8804) upon the staff H4938 of this bruised H7533 (8803) reed H7070, [even] upon Egypt H4714, on which if a man H376 lean H5564 (8735), it will go H935 (8804) into his hand H3709, and pierce H5344 (8804) it: so [is] Pharaoh H6547 king H4428 of Egypt H4714 unto all that trust H982 (8802) on him.
[22] But if ye say H559 (8799) unto me, We trust H982 (8804) in the LORD H3068 our God H430: [is] not that he, whose high places H1116 and whose altars H4196 Hezekiah H2396 hath taken away H5493 (8689), and hath said H559 (8799) to Judah H3063 and Jerusalem H3389, Ye shall worship H7812 (8691) before H6440 this altar H4196 in Jerusalem H3389?
[23] Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges H6148 (8690) to my lord H113 the king H4428 of Assyria H804, and I will deliver H5414 (8799) thee two thousand H505 horses H5483, if thou be able H3201 (8799) on thy part to set H5414 (8800) riders H7392 (8802) upon them.
[24] How then wilt thou turn away H7725 (8686) the face H6440 of one H259 captain H6346 of the least H6996 of my master’s H113 servants H5650, and put thy trust H982 (8799) on Egypt H4714 for chariots H7393 and for horsemen H6571?
[25] Am I now come up H5927 (8804) without H1107 the LORD H3068 against this place H4725 to destroy H7843 (8687) it? The LORD H3068 said H559 (8804) to me, Go up H5927 (8798) against this land H776, and destroy H7843 (8685) it.
[26] Then said H559 (8799) Eliakim H471 the son H1121 of Hilkiah H2518, and Shebna H7644, and Joah H3098, unto Rabshakeh H7262, Speak H1696 (8761), I pray thee, to thy servants H5650 in the Syrian language H762; for we understand H8085 (8802) [it]: and talk H1696 (8762) not with us in the Jews’ language H3066 in the ears H241 of the people H5971 that [are] on the wall H2346.
[27] But Rabshakeh H7262 said H559 (8799) unto them, Hath my master H113 sent H7971 (8804) me to thy master H113, and to thee, to speak H1696 (8763) these words H1697? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men H582 which sit H3427 (8802) on the wall H2346, that they may eat H398 (8800) their own dung H6675 (8675) H2755, and drink H8354 (8800) their own piss H4325 H7272 (8675) H7890 with you?
[28] Then Rabshakeh H7262 stood H5975 (8799) and cried H7121 (8799) with a loud H1419 voice H6963 in the Jews’ language H3066, and spake H1696 (8762), saying H559 (8799), Hear H8085 (8798) the word H1697 of the great H1419 king H4428, the king H4428 of Assyria H804:
[29] Thus saith H559 (8804) the king H4428, Let not Hezekiah H2396 deceive H5377 (8686) you: for he shall not be able H3201 (8799) to deliver H5337 (8687) you out of his hand H3027:
[30] Neither let Hezekiah H2396 make you trust H982 (8686) in the LORD H3068, saying H559 (8800), The LORD H3068 will surely H5337 (8687) deliver H5337 (8686) us, and this city H5892 shall not be delivered H5414 (8735) into the hand H3027 of the king H4428 of Assyria H804.
[31] Hearken H8085 (8799) not to Hezekiah H2396: for thus saith H559 (8804) the king H4428 of Assyria H804, Make H6213 (8798) [an agreement] with me by a present H1293, and come out H3318 (8798) to me, and [then] eat H398 (8798) ye every man H376 of his own vine H1612, and every one H376 of his fig tree H8384, and drink H8354 (8798) ye every one H376 the waters H4325 of his cistern H953:
[32] Until I come H935 (8800) and take you away H3947 (8804) to a land H776 like your own land H776, a land H776 of corn H1715 and wine H8492, a land H776 of bread H3899 and vineyards H3754, a land H776 of oil H3323 olive H2132 and of honey H1706, that ye may live H2421 (8798), and not die H4191 (8799): and hearken H8085 (8799) not unto Hezekiah H2396, when he persuadeth H5496 (8686) you, saying H559 (8800), The LORD H3068 will deliver H5337 (8686) us.
[33] Hath any H376 of the gods H430 of the nations H1471 delivered H5337 (8689) at all H5337 (8687) his land H776 out of the hand H3027 of the king H4428 of Assyria H804?
[34] Where [are] the gods H430 of Hamath H2574, and of Arpad H774? where [are] the gods H430 of Sepharvaim H5617, Hena H2012, and Ivah H5755? have they delivered H5337 (8689) Samaria H8111 out of mine hand H3027?
[35] Who [are] they among all the gods H430 of the countries H776, that have delivered H5337 (8689) their country H776 out of mine hand H3027, that the LORD H3068 should deliver H5337 (8686) Jerusalem H3389 out of mine hand H3027?
[36] But the people H5971 held their peace H2790 (8689), and answered H6030 (8804) him not a word H1697: for the king’s H4428 commandment H4687 was, saying H559 (8800), Answer H6030 (8799) him not.
[37] Then came H935 (8799) Eliakim H471 the son H1121 of Hilkiah H2518, which [was] over the household H1004, and Shebna H7644 the scribe H5608 (8802), and Joah H3098 the son H1121 of Asaph H623 the recorder H2142 (8688), to Hezekiah H2396 with [their] clothes H899 rent H7167 (8803), and told H5046 (8686) him the words H1697 of Rabshakeh H7262.

Young’s Literal Translation

2 Kings 18 (YLT)

[1] And it cometh to pass, in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, reigned hath Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah;
[2] a son of twenty and five years was he in his reigning, and twenty and nine years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Abi daughter of Zechariah.
[3] And he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father did,
[4] he hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it ‘a piece of brass.’
[5] In Jehovah, God of Israel, he hath trusted, and after him there hath not been like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among any who were before him;
[6] and he cleaveth to Jehovah, he hath not turned aside from after Him, and keepeth His commands that Jehovah commanded Moses.
[7] And Jehovah hath been with him, in every place where he goeth out he acteth wisely, and he rebelleth against the king of Asshur, and hath not served him;
[8] he hath smitten the Philistines unto Gaza, and its borders, from a tower of watchers unto the fenced city.
[9] And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah-it is the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel-come up hath Shalmaneser king of Asshur against Samaria, and layeth siege to it,
[10] and they capture it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah-it is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel-hath Samaria been captureth,
[11] and the king of Asshur removeth Israel to Asshur, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in cities of the Medes,
[12] because that they have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and transgress His covenant-all that He commanded Moses, servant of Jehovah-yea, they have not hearkened nor done it.
[13] And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah hath Sennacherib king of Asshur come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them,
[14] and Hezekiah king of Judah sendeth unto the king of Asshur to Lachish, saying, ‘I have sinned, turn back from off me; that which thou puttest on me I bear;’ and the king of Asshur layeth on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold,
[15] and Hezekiah giveth all the silver that is found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the king;
[16] at that time hath Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Jehovah, and the pillars that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and giveth them to the king of Asshur.
[17] And the king of Asshur sendeth Tartan, and the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the butlers, from Lachish, unto king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, to Jerusalem, and they go up and come in to Jerusalem, and they go up, and come in and stand by the conduit of the upper pool that is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
[18] And they call unto the king, and go out unto them doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the remembrancer.
[19] And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, ‘Say, I pray you, unto Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur, What is this confidence in which thou hast confided?
[20] Thou hast said: Only a word of the lips! counsel and might are for battle; now, on whom hast thou trusted that thou hast rebelled against me?
[21] ‘Now, lo, thou hast trusted for thee on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it!-so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.
[22] ‘And when ye say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted, is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar do ye bow yourselves in Jerusalem?
[23] ‘And, now, give a pledge for thee, I pray thee, to my lord the king of Asshur, and I give to thee two thousand horses, if thou art able to give for thee riders on them.
[24] And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, that thou dost trust for thee on Egypt for chariot, and for horsemen?
[25] Now, without Jehovah have I come up against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and thou hast destroyed it.’
[26] And Eliakim son of Hilkiah saith-and Shebna, and Joah-to the chief of the butlers, ‘Speak, we pray thee, unto thy servants in Aramaean, for we are understanding, and do not speak with us in Jewish, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.’
[27] And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, ‘For thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men, those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water, with you?’
[28] And the chief of the butlers standeth and calleth with a great voice in Jewish, and speaketh and saith, ‘Hear ye a word of the great king, the king of Asshur:
[29] thus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you out of his hand;
[30] and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, and this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
[31] ‘Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,
[32] till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive, and honey, and live, and die not; and do not hearken unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us.
[33] ‘Have the gods of the nations delivered at all each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
[34] Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?
[35] Who are they among all the gods of the lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’
[36] And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him a word, for the command of the king is, saying, ‘Do not answer him.’
[37] And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, cometh in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the remembrancer, unto Hezekiah, with rent garments, and they declare to him the words of the chief of the butlers.