9After this Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent his servants to Hezekiah, king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem (while he himself laid siege against Lachish, with all his army), and they said, 10“Thus says Sennacherib, king of Assyria, ‘On what do you trust, that you remain in the siege in Jerusalem? 11Does not Hezekiah mislead you to let you die by famine and by thirst, by telling you, ‘The LORD, our God, shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’ 12Has not this Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?’ 13Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the people of other lands? Were the gods of those lands and people in any way able to deliver them out of my hand? 14Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to rescue you from me? 15So do not let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, nor yet believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from me or from my fathers. How much less shall your God rescue you from me?” 16And his servants said even more against the LORD God, and against His servant, Hezekiah. 17He also wrote letters to rail against the LORD God of Israel, and blaspheme against Him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver His people out of my hand”. 18Then they shouted with a loud voice in the Jews' speech to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and demoralize them; in order to take the city. 19And they disdained the God of Jerusalem, as they disdained the gods of the pagans of the earth, which were mere work of the hands of man.

20And for this cause Hezekiah, the king, and the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. 21And the LORD sent an angel, who destroyed every brave warrior, and their leaders and commanders in the camp of the Assyrian army. So Sennacherib returned in shame to his own land. And when he entered the house of his god, some of his own children slew him there with the sword. 22Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and He gave them rest on every side. 23And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah, king of Judah; so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from that time forward.

24In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill, and prayed to the LORD; and God spoke to him, and He gave him a sign. 25But Hezekiah did nothing in gratitude for the blessings done for him; for he became proud; therefore, God’s wrath came upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. 26However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

27And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor; and he made himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all manner of costly articles. 28He also built storehouses, for the increase of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. 29Moreover, he provided cities for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance. 30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. 31 However, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him alone, to test him, to He know all that was in his heart.

32Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 33And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chief of the sepulchers of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him upon his death. And Manasseh, his son, reigned in his stead.