SENNACHERIB’S INVASION

13 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Assyria’s King Sennacherib attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.u 14 So King Hezekiah of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish:v “I have done wrong;w withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay.” The king of Assyria demanded eleven tonsC of silver and one tonD of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah. 15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.