8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
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And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-19)Rabshakeh, having delivered his message and received no answer (whether he took this silence for a consent or a slight does not appear), left his army before Jerusalem, under the command of the other generals, and went himself to attend the king his master for further orders. He found him besieging Libnah, a city that had revolted from Judah, 2 Kgs. 8:22. Whether he had taken Lachish or no is not…
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