2 Kings 18:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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יַבְטַ֨ח

bâṭach

H982

“to trust”

Verb, Hiphil, Jussive, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 120× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 28:52

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 233

to trust - (Qal) - to trust, trust in - to have confidence, be confident - to be bold - to be secure - (Hiphil) - to cause to trust, make secure - (TWOT) to feel safe, be careless

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

18: words
15: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

5 verbs
7 nouns
1 pronoun
1 preposition
4 particles

Verb forms

יַבְטַ֨ח Hiphil · Jussive
לֵאמֹ֔ר Qal · Infinitive Construct
הַצֵּ֥ל Hiphil · Infinitive Absolute
יַצִּילֵ֖נוּ Hiphil · Imperfect
תִנָּתֵן֙ Niphal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

יְהוָ֣ה LORD H3068 ×2
הַצֵּ֥ל to rescue H5337 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 29 words from the Hebrew and 37 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 18 Hebrew tokens and 22 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Kings 18:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Kings 19:10 Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
2 Kings 19:22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
2 Kings 19:32–34 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
Psalms 4:2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
Psalms 11:1 In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain!"
Psalms 22:7–8 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
Psalms 71:9 Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.
Psalms 71:11 Saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

Psalms 125:1–2 Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, Which can't be moved, but remains forever.
Matthew 27:43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
Luke 23:35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Kings 18:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַל יַבְטַ֨ח אֶתְכֶ֤ם חִזְקִיָּ֨הוּ֙ אֶל יְהוָ֣ה לֵאמֹ֔ר הַצֵּ֥ל יַצִּילֵ֖נוּ יְהוָ֑ה וְלֹ֤א תִנָּתֵן֙ אֶת הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֔את בְּיַ֖ד מֶ֥לֶךְ אַשּֽׁוּר

neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Kings 18:30 Septuagint · lemma form

καί μή ἐπιἐλπίζω σύ εζεκιας πρός κύριος λέγω ἐκαἱρέω ἐκαἱρέω ἐγώ κύριος οὐ μή παραδίδωμι ὁ πόλις οὗτος ἐν χείρ βασιλεύς ἀσσύριος

And let not Ezekias cause you to trust on the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians: listen not to Ezekias:

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְלָא יַרְחִיץ יַתְכוֹן חִזְקִיָה עַל מֵימְרָא דַייָ לְמֵימָר שֵׁיזָבָא יְשֵׁיזְבִינָנָא יְיָ וְלָא תִתְמְסַר קַרְתָּא הָדָא בְּיַד מַלְכָּא דְאַתּוּר:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 2 Kings 18:30 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ki 18:30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

Ver. 30. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord.] Of whom these pagans had the like base and bald conceits as they had of the dunghill deities of other countries. "But our God is in heaven," saith the psalmist; "he doeth whatsoever he willeth in heaven and in earth": and "those that trust in him shall never be confounded." "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in men" or means.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ki 18:30-31. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord — This was high presumption indeed, to endeavour to persuade them not to place their confidence in God, as if his master were stronger than God. Make an agreement with me by a present — To redeem yourselves from all the calamities of a close siege, and from that death and destruction which will certainly follow on them: or, according to the marginal reading, make with me a blessing, that is, a blessed peace, whereby you may be delivered out of your distressed and miserable condition, and may receive from me the blessings of protection and provision, which your king cannot afford you. Then eat ye every man of his own vine — Upon these terms I will give you no disturbance; but quietly suffer each of you to enjoy his own possessions.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(30) Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord.—Hezekiah cannot save you himself (2Ki_18:29); Jehovah will not do so (2Ki_18:25). The “Jewish colouring” of the verse is not apparent to the present writer. If Rab-shakeh could speak Hebrew, he would almost certainly know the name of the god of the Jews; and it was perfectly natural for him to assume that Hezekiah and his prophets would encourage the people to trust in the God who had His sanctuary on Zion, and was bound to defend His own dwelling-place. The words are not so exact a reproduction of Isaiah’s language (Isa_37:35) as to preclude this view.

Delivered.—Rather, given, yielded up.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

30. this city shall not be delivered] R.V. given. The Hebrew word is not the same as that rendered ‘deliver’ in this verse and the previous one. It is desirable that the difference should be made plain to the English reader.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord. Rabshakeh seems to be aware that this is the argument which Hezekiah is, in point of fact, mainly urging. If at one time he had trusted in Egypt, that trust was now quite or well-nigh gone. The tone of his exhortations was that recorded in Chronicles, (2Ch_32:6-8) "He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the King of Assyria, nor for all the multi-rude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him; (2Ki_6:16) with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah King of Judah." Saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the King of Assyria. Hezekiah"s was, in part, a general conviction that God would not forsake his people, who had recently turned to him, if not with absolute sincerity, yet at any rate with public confession of sin, and public acknowledgment of his mercies, and public profession of an intention to serve him; in part, probably, a special reliance on some definite prophecies of Isaiah, that the city should not be taken. (see Isa_31:4-6)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 18 words (15 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâṭach (“to trust”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to trust” (bâṭach) contribute to the verse as a whole?
2 Kings 19:10 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“LORD” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «יַבְטַ֨ח» is Hiphil Jussive. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 18 Hebrew ↔ 22 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
“LORD” occurs 2× in this single verse.
15 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 18 words in this verse.