2 Kings 18:29-37 ▼

29 Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you?, for he shall not be able to deliver you? from his hand.

30 And do not let Hezekiah make you? trust in YHWH, saying, ‘YHWH will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make with me a blessing, and come out to me, and eat, each man from his own vine, and each man from his own fig tree, and drink each man the waters of his own cistern,

32 until I come and take you? away to a land like your? own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey—that you? may live and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you?, saying, ‘YHWH will deliver us.’

33 Have any gods of the nations ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

35 Who among all the gods of the countries have delivered their lands from my hand, that YHWH should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

36 And the people kept silent and did not answer him a word, for it was the command from the king, saying, “Do not answer him.”

37 And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, came—and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder—to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and they declared to him the words of the Rabshakeh.