5. When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah,
6. Isaiah said to them, ‘Tell your master, “This is what the Lord says: do not be afraid of what you have heard – those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7. Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.” ’
8. When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
9. Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: