2 Kings 18:30–35

³⁰Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the Lord by saying, “Certainly the Lord will rescue us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” ’^g

³¹“Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace^D with me and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree,^h and each may drink water from his own cistern ³²until 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 trees and honeyⁱ—so that you may live^j and not die. But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The Lord will rescue us.” ³³Has any of the gods of the nations ever rescued^k his land from the power of the king of Assyria? ³⁴Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?^A Have they rescued Samaria from my power?^{l 35}Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued his land from my power? So will the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’ ”^m