--- title: "Assyria Invades Judah" description: "In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked..." image: "" book: "2 Kings" bookId: "2KI" testament: "old" startChapter: 18 startVerse: 13 endChapter: 18 endVerse: 16 coversChapters: [18] aiTitle: "Assyria Invades Judah" aiDescription: "In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked..." hasAiStory: true location: "Judah" persons: ["God","Hezekiah","Sennacherib"] hashtags: ["idolatry","judgment","war"] genre: "history" readingTime: 1 type: "adaptive" slug: "2KI/assyria-invades-judah" canonicalId: "2KI.18.13-18.16" chronologicalOrder: 987 relatedSlugs: [] prevSlug: "2KI/sennacherib-king-of-assyria-threatens-jerusalem" nextSlug: "2KI/assyria-sieges-jerusalem" --- ### Sennacherib Invades Judah In the fourteenth year of [Hezekiah](/persons/hezekiah)’s reign, [Sennacherib](/persons/sennacherib) king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah. So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.”
And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the [LORD](/persons/god) and in the treasuries of the royal palace. 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.

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