So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
Parallel translations
- WEB Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
- KJV And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
- BSB Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
- ESV And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
- NASB Hezekiah then gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house.
- NLT To gather this amount, King Hezekiah used all the silver stored in the Temple of the Lord and in the palace treasury.
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Quick answer
Hezekiah handed over all the silver from the temple and royal treasuries to pay Assyria. The cost of appeasement was severe and reached into God's house.
Overview
To meet Sennacherib's demand, Hezekiah emptied both the LORD's house and his own treasury. Stripping the temple shows how desperate the situation was and how appeasement failed to satisfy Assyria. This sober detail reveals the futility of trusting in payment rather than in God. True security would come only when Hezekiah turned wholly to the LORD in prayer.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- 1 Kgs 15:18–19Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that was left in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered it into the hand of his servants. Then King Asa sent them to Ben Hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
- 2 Kgs 16:8Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
- 2 Kgs 12:18Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria; and he went away from Jerusalem.
- 2 Chr 16:2Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of Yahweh’s house and of the king’s house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
- 1 Kgs 15:15He brought into Yahweh’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.
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