2 Kings 18:1-12 - Hezekiah Reigns In Judah

¹ And it happened 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 Zachariah. ³ And he did the right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father did. ⁴ He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent which Moses had made; for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it. And he called it Nehushtan.

⁵ He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel, and after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. ⁶ For he clung to Jehovah. He did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

⁷ And Jehovah was with him. He was blessed wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and did not serve him. ⁸ He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the Watch Tower to the fortified city.

⁹ And it happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. ¹⁰ And at the end of three years they took it, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, it was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. ¹¹ And the king of Assyria carried away Israel to Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, ¹² because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed His covenant, and all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not listen to them, nor do them.