At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold with which he had plated the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
- ESV At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
- NKJV At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
- NASB At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorposts, which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave it to the king of Assyria.
- NLT Hezekiah even stripped the gold from the doors of the Lord’s Temple and from the doorposts he had overlaid with gold, and he gave it all to the Assyrian king.
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Quick answer
Hezekiah even stripped the gold he had overlaid on the temple doors and pillars to give to Assyria. His earlier adornment of God's house was sacrificed to buy peace.
Overview
The tribute drove Hezekiah to dismantle the very ornamentation he had added to the temple. This vivid loss underscores how appeasement of a ruthless empire proved both costly and ineffective. It exposes the bankruptcy of trusting human strategy over God. The episode sets the stage for a deliverance that would depend entirely on the LORD's power.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 2
- 2 Chr 29:3In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kgs 6:31–35For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.
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