The king of Ashur sent Ravshakeh from Lakhish to Yerushalayim to king Chizkiyahu with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway.
Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Ashur, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Then the LORD said to Yeshaiyahu, *Go out now to meet Achaz, you, and She'ar-Yashuv your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
when the king of Bavel's army was fighting against Yerushalayim, and against all the cities of Yehudah that were left, against Lakhish and against `Azeka; for these [alone] remained of the cities of Yehudah [as] fortified cities.
Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lakhish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Tziyon; For the transgressions of Yisra'el were found in you.