2 Kings 19:1-13
Isaiah Tells Hezekiah Not to Be Afraid
19aNow it happened that when King Hezekiah heard it, he btore his clothes, ccovered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of Yahweh. 2Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, acovered with sackcloth, to bIsaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, reproof, and rejection; for children have come to the point of breaking forth, but there is no strength to give birth. 4‘aPerhaps Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent bto 1reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore, lift up a prayer for cthe remnant that is left.’” 5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the ayoung men of the king of Assyria bhave blasphemed Me. 7“Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that ahe will hear a report and return to his own land. And bI will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
Sennacherib Deceives Hezekiah
8Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against aLibnah, for he had heard that 1the king had set out from bLachish. 9Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of 1Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying, 10“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of 1Judah, ‘Do not alet your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “bJerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11‘Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction. So will you be delivered? 12‘aDid the gods of 1those nations which my fathers brought to ruin deliver them, even bGozan and cHaran and Rezeph and dthe sons of Eden who were in Telassar? 13‘aWhere is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”