11. The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and put them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan’s river, and in the cities of the Medes,
12. because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord their God but violated His covenant — all He had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.
13. In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
14. So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay.” The king of Assyria demanded 11 tons of silver and one ton of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah.
15. So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.