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18:13 Sanheriv invades Yehudah
13 In the fourteenth year of King Hizkiyyah’s reign, Assyrian King Sanheriv attacked all the fortified cities in Yehudah and captured them. 14 So King Hizkiyyah of Yehudah sent messengers to the Assyrian king at Lakish, saying, “I apologise for my mistake. Stop attacking me and I’ll give you whatever you demand of us.” Then the Assyrian king demanded a tribute of ten tonnes of gold and ten tonnes of silver. 15 So Hizkiyyah gave him all the silver out of the temple and from the palace treasuries. 16 He cut the doors off Yahweh’s temple and the pillars that he’d overlaid gold onto, and gave them to the Assyrian king.
17 However, the Assyrian king still sent his general and some of his top officials from Lakish to King Hezekiah in Yerushalem. They arrived at Yerushalem with a large army and camped by the aquifer supplying the upper pool that was near the field where the people washed their clothes. 18 They called out to the king, and Hilkiyyah’s son Elyakim who was the palace manager, and the scribe Shebna, and Asaf’s son Yoah the secretary, went out to them.
19 Then the top Assyrian commander said to them, “Now, tell Hizkiyyah that the great Assyrian king asks him who he think’s he’s trusting in. 20 He claims to be powerful enough to fight us. Who is he trusting to help you all that gives you confidence to rebel against us? 21 Listen, your king’s trusting in a broken stick to lean on which will just splinter and pierce his hand. That’s what King Far-oh of Egypt is like to everyone who puts their trust in him. 22 Ah, but he might tell me that he’s trusting in your god Yahweh to help you all. If so, I’d ask him if he isn’t the one whose hilltop shrines King Hizkiyyah demolished when he told you people in Yerushalem and all Yehudah that you have to worship at the altar there?
23 “So now ask your king if he’ll make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria: He’ll give you two thousand horses, on the condition that you can supply two thousand horsemen who can ride them. 24 If you can’t do that, how could you all possibly repel even one of our army units? Haha, but of course you trust in Egypt to supply chariots and horsemen. 25 Do you think that we have come here to destroy this place without Yahweh’s permission? No, no, it was Yahweh himself who told us to attack and destroy you.”
26 But Elyakim and Shebna and Yoah asked the Assyrian commander, “Please speak Aramaic to your servants because we understand it. Don’t speak our language because our people on the nearby city wall will be able to understand it.”
27 “Ha ha, do you think my master sent this message just to you three and your king?” he replied. “No, don’t you think that this message is also for the hungry people sitting on the wall who’ll soon have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine along with you?”
28 Then he stood up and called out loudly in Hebrew, “Everyone listen to what the great king from Assyria says: 29 He’s warning you all not to let Hizkiyyah deceive you, because he unable to save you all from our army. 30 And don’t let him force you all to trust in Yahweh thinking that we won’t capture your city and that Yahweh will somehow rescue you all. 31 Don’t listen to Hizkiyyah because the Assyrian king is offering you all a chance to come out of the city and surrender. In exchange for saving me some trouble, you’ll be able to drink fresh water again and enjoy the fruit off your own trees out here 32 until he comes here. Then he’ll take you to another country like your own—with grain and wine, and bread and vineyards, olive oil and honey. That way you’ll live and not die of starvation. So don’t listen to Hizkiyyah when he misleads you saying that Yahweh will rescue you all.” 33 Did the gods of any of the other countries rescue their people from the power of the Assyrian king? 34 Where were the gods of Hamat and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sefarvayim, Hena, and Ivvah? Were they able to save Shomron from the king’s power? 35 From all the other countries, which of their gods was able to save their people, that might give confidence that Yahweh might be able to rescue Yerushalem from the king’s power?”
36 But the people on the wall listening remained silent—they didn’t say a word because the king had already ordered them not to answer the Assyrians. 37 Then Hilkiyyah’s son Elyakim the palace manager, Shebna the scribe and Asaf’s son Yoah the secretary went back in the city to Hizkiyyah, tearing their clothes as they went, and they relayed the words of the chief commander to him.
14 Hizkiyyah took the letter that the messengers had brought and read it, then he went up to the temple and spread it out in front of Yahweh 15 and prayed to him, “Yahweh the God of Israel, who lives above the winged creatures. You alone are God—the one over all the kingdoms of the earth. You yourself made the heavens and the earth.[ref] 16 Lean this way, Yahweh, and look, and listen to Sanheriv’s words mocking the living God. 17 Yes Yahweh, the Assyrian kings have certainly destroyed many countries and their lands. 18 The Assyrians burnt the peoples’ gods because they weren’t living gods, but rather gods of wood and stone made by people and they’ve destroyed them. 19 But now Yahweh our God, please save us, from his army, then all the kingdoms in the world will know that you, Yahweh, are God—you alone.”
19:19 Yahweh’s response to Hizkiyyah via Yeshayah
20 Then Amots’s son Yeshayah (Isaiah) sent this message to Hizkiyyah: Israel’s God Yahweh says, “Because you prayed to me concerning the Assyrian King Sanheriv, I have listened. 21 This is what Yahweh says about that king:
Tsiyyon’s daughter despises you and derides you.
≈Yerushalem’s daughter shakes her head at you.
22 Who did you think you were teasing and insulting?
Who did you think you were shouting at?
Did you raise your eyebrows against Israel’s holy one.
23 You sent messengers that mocked me.
You said that you went over the highest mountains with your many chariots.
≈That you went to the highest parts of Lebanon and harvested its tallest cedars—its best trees.
That you’ve been to the end of the inhabited world with its densest forest.
24 You said that you’ve dug wells far away and drunk their water,
yet with your own feet you dried up all of Egypt’s rivers.
25 Haven’t you heard that I made plans long ago—
that what I previously planned, I’m now making it happen?
Fortified cities will collapse into heaps of rubble.
26 Their inhabitants will be powerless—dismayed and ashamed.
They’ll be as vulnerable as plants in the countryside,
or like the grass that grows on the rooftops—
they wilt and wither before they can grow tall. DOUBLE-CHECK
27 Yes, I know when you sit down and when you go out.
When you come in and rage against me.
28 Because you’ve raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I’ll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth,
and I’ll lead you back on the road that you came here on.
29 “So this will be a sign to you Hizkiyyah:
This year you’ll eat what grew by itself,
and next year whatever seeded by itself,
but in the third year you’ll sow crops and plant vineyards, and eat what you harvest.
30 Yehudah’s surviving descendants will send their roots downwards and will produce fruit above,
31 because a remnant will survive Yerushalem’s siege,
≈and Mt. Tsiyyon will have survivors
because Yahweh’s enthusiasm will make sure it happens.
32 “So this is what Yahweh says to the Assyrian king:
He won’t enter this city or shoot an arrow into it.
He won’t push a large shield towards it or make a ramp up into it.
33 He’ll return on the same road that he arrived on,
and Yahweh declares that he won’t enter this city,
34 because Yahweh will defend this city
and for the sake of his servant David.”
35 That very night, Yahweh sent an angel out to kill 185,000 warriors, so when the army got up early the next morning there were dead bodies all over the place. 36 So the Assyrian King Sanheriv pulled out and went back to live in Nineveh. 37 While he was bowing in the temple of his god Nisrok, Adrammelek and Sharezer ran him through with a sword before escaping to the Ararat region, and so his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.