6. he said to them: “Tell this to your lord: Thus says the Lord: Do not be frightened by the words you have heard, by which the deputies of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7. I am putting in him such a spiritthat when he hears a reporthe will return to his land.I will make him fall by the sword in his land.”
8. When the commander, on his return, heard that the king of Assyria had withdrawn from Lachish, he found him besieging Libnah.
9. The king of Assyria heard a report: “Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, has come out to fight against you.” Again he sent messengers to Hezekiah to say:
10. “Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, ‘Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’
11. You, certainly, have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands: they put them under the ban! And are you to be delivered?
12. Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed deliver them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar?
13. Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, or a king of the cities Sepharvaim, Hena or Ivvah?”
14. Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then he went up to the house of the Lord, and spreading it out before the Lord,