2 Kings 18:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that King Hezekiah of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then Hezekiah stripped off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts which he as king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Jehovah, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ At that time King Hezekiah had to strip down the doors and doorposts of the LORD’s temple, which he had covered with gold. He gave all of it to the Assyrian king.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ At that time, Hezekiah broke apart the doors of the temple of the Lord, with the plates of gold which he had affixed to them. And he gave these to the king of the Assyrians.

2 Kings 18:16 Cross References

2 Chronicles 29:3

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

2 Kings 12:18

King Jehoash of Judah took all the votive gifts that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, as well as his own votive gifts, all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the Lord and of the king’s house, and sent these to King Hazael of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

2 Kings 18:15

Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house.

2 Kings 18:17

The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the fuller’s field.

Isaiah 39:2

Hezekiah welcomed them; he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

2 Kings 12:19

Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?