Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Return from me - Or "retire from me," i. e., "withdraw thy troops."
Three hundred talents ... - According to Sennacherib' s own account, the terms of peace were as follows:
(1) A money payment to the amount of 800 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold.
(2) the surrender of the Ekronite king.
(3) a cession of territory toward the west and the southwest, which was apportioned between the kings of Ekron, Ashdod, and Gaza.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 18:14:
Joshua 10:3
2 Kings 15:19
2 Kings 17:20
2 Kings 18:13
2 Chronicles 32:1
2 Chronicles 32:8
Isaiah 30:6
Isaiah 33:1
Isaiah 33:7
Isaiah 33:8
Isaiah 33:23
Isaiah 36:1
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