2 Kings 18:12

12 because * they 1did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.

2 Kings 18:12 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:12

Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord
In his law, and by his prophets:

but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the
Lord commanded;
which evils are at large insisted on in the preceding chapter as the cause of their captivity:

and would not hear them, nor do them;
contrary to the agreement of their fathers at Sinai, who promised to do both, ( Exodus 24:3 Exodus 24:7 ) .

2 Kings 18:12 In-Context

10 At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.
11 Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile 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 did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor 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 seized them.
14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 1 Kings 9:6; Daniel 9:6, 10
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