Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The Lord our God will keep us from the grasp of the king of Assyria’?
Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?
But the royal spokesman replied, ‘Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine? ’
So now, don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, and don’t let him mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. How much less will your God rescue you from my power! ” ’
‘Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah: “Don’t let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.
Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the Lord by saying, ‘Certainly the Lord will rescue us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ ”
But the royal spokesman said to them, ‘Has my master sent me to speak these words only to your master and to you? Hasn’t he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine? ’
Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove his high places and his altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it’?