And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days’ delay, that we may send messengers to all the territory of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to you.
Do not listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and every one of you will eat from his vine, and every one from his fig tree, and every one of you will drink the waters of his own cistern;