⁴ and he captureth the cities of the bulwarks that `are' to Judah, and cometh in unto Jerusalem.

⁵ And Rehoboam dwelleth in Jerusalem, and buildeth cities for a bulwark in Judah,

⁶ yea, he buildeth Beth-Lehem and Etam, and Tekoa,

⁷ and Beth-Zur, and Shocho, and Adullam,

⁸ and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

⁹ and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

¹⁰ and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, that `are' in Judah and in Benjamin, cities of bulwarks.

¹¹ And he strengtheneth the bulwarks, and putteth in them leaders, and treasures of food, and oil, and wine,

¹² and in every city and city targets and spears, and strengtheneth them very greatly; and he hath Judah and Benjamin.

¹⁷ And the king of Asshur sendeth Tartan, and the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the butlers, from Lachish, unto king Hezekiah, with a heavy force, to Jerusalem, and they go up and come in to Jerusalem, and they go up, and come in and stand by the conduit of the upper pool that `is' in the highway of the fuller's field.

⁸ And it hath passed on into Judah, It hath overflown and passed over, Unto the neck it cometh, And the stretching out of its wings Hath been the fulness of the breadth of thy land, O Emmanu-El!

¹¹ Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

¹ And it cometh to pass, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, come up hath Sennacherib king of Asshur against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them.

¹⁰ Go ye up on her walls, and destroy, And a completion make not, Turn aside her branches, for they `are' not Jehovah's,