2 Chronicles 32:9–22

^9jAfter this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, ^10kThus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the ^lsiege in Jerusalem? ¹¹Doth not Hezekiah ^mpersuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ⁿThe Lord our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria? ^12oHath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it? ¹³Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? ^pwere the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand? ^14pWho was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? ¹⁵Now therefore let not Hezekiah ^qdeceive you, nor ^mpersuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? ¹⁶And ^rhis servants spake yet more against the Lord God, and against his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷He wrote also ^sletters to rail on the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, ^tAs the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. ¹⁸Then they ^ucried with a loud voice in the Jews’ speech unto the people of Jerusalem ^xthat were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city. ¹⁹And they spake ^yagainst the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were ^zthe work of the hands of man. ²⁰And for this cause ^aHezekiah the king, and ^bthe prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. ^21cAnd the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with ^dshame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels 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 other, and guided them on every side.