13. What happened to the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad? What happened to the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”
14. After Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the lord’s Temple and spread it out before the lord.
15. And Hezekiah prayed this prayer before the lord:
16. “O lord of Heaven’s Armies, God of Israel, you are enthroned between the mighty cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You alone created the heavens and the earth.
17. Bend down, O lord, and listen! Open your eyes, O lord, and see! Listen to Sennacherib’s words of defiance against the living God.
18. “It is true, lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.