Text: Isaiah 30:2
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 18:5-18
Subject: Hezekiah's trust versus Judah's Egyptian alliance
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Contrast
Significance: In 2 Kings 18:5-7, Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, kept His commandments, and "the LORD was with him; he prospered wherever he went." Yet 2 Kings 18:13-16 records him paying tribute to Sennacherib, stripping gold from the temple doors — a moment of wavering. Isaiah 30:2 condemns those who "go down to Egypt for help and do not seek the counsel of the LORD" (בְּלֹא שְׁאָלוּ פִי, belo sha'alu fi). The contrast between Hezekiah's exemplary trust and the pro-Egyptian faction he sometimes accommodated illustrates the tension within Judah's leadership during the Assyrian crisis — a tension Isaiah's oracles directly addressed.