2 Kings 18:27   (Read all of 2 Kings 18)

But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall-who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"

2 Kings 18:29   (Read all of 2 Kings 18)

This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.

2 Kings 18:30   (Read all of 2 Kings 18)

Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, 'The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'

2 Kings 18:31   (Read all of 2 Kings 18)

"Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

2 Kings 18:32   (Read all of 2 Kings 18)

until I come and take you to a land like your own-a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, 'The Lord will deliver us.'

2 Kings 19:4   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives."

2 Kings 19:6   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

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.

2 Kings 19:10   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

"Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, 'Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.'

2 Kings 19:11   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?

2 Kings 19:15   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: "Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

2 Kings 19:16   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.

2 Kings 19:19   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, Lord, are God."

2 Kings 19:20   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19:21   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: " 'Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.

2 Kings 19:22   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

2 Kings 19:23   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, "With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.

2 Kings 19:25   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

" 'Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

2 Kings 19:27   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

" 'But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.

2 Kings 19:28   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.'

2 Kings 19:29   (Read all of 2 Kings 19)

"This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: "This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

2 Kings 20:1   (Read all of 2 Kings 20)

In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, "This is what the Lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover."

2 Kings 20:3   (Read all of 2 Kings 20)

"Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Kings 20:5   (Read all of 2 Kings 20)

"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, 'This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 20:6   (Read all of 2 Kings 20)

I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.' "