2 Kings 18:30–35

³⁰Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord by saying: Certainly the Lord will deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ ^s

³¹“Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace ^twith me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, ^uand every one 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 honey ^v—so that you may live ^wand not die. But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. ³³Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered ^xhis 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? ^yHave they delivered Samaria from my hand? ^z35Who among all the gods of the lands has delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem?’ ” ^a