When the commander, on his return, heard that the king of Assyria had withdrawn from Lachish, he found him besieging Libnah. Sennacherib, Hezekiah, and Isaiah.
Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: “I have done wrong. Leave me, and whatever you impose on me I will bear.” The king of Assyria exacted three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold from Hezekiah, king of Judah.