city’s water supply by building his famous tunnel from a spring outside the walls to the Pool of Siloam. Even so, the situation appeared desperate. As Isaiah described it: The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege. (Isa. 1:8) The Assyrian commander taunted the inhabitants of the beleaguered city: Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has the god of any nation ever delivered
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