^{15 Ref} Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?

^{16 Ref} And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

^{17 Ref} He wrote also letters, to rail on Jehovah, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my hand.

^{18 Ref} And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

^{19 Ref} And they spake of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

^{20 Ref} And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

^{21 Ref} And Jehovah sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth from his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

^{22 Ref} Thus Jehovah saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all `others', and guided them on every side.