37:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah, 37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 10 37:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; 11 he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 12 with a sword in his own land.”’”
37:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. 13 37:9 The king 14 heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia 15 was marching out to fight him. 16 He again sent 17 messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them: 37:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” 37:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. 18 Do you really think you will be rescued? 19 37:12 Were the nations whom my predecessors 20 destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 21 37:13 Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the kings of Lair, 22 Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
37:14 Hezekiah took the letter 23 from the messengers and read it. 24 Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord. 37:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: 37:16 “O Lord who commands armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubim! 25 You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky 26 and the earth.