And Rabshakeh said to them, Speak ye to Hezekiah, The great king, the king of Assyrians, saith these things, What is this trust, in which thou enforcest or endeavourest thee?
Whether not Hezekiah deceiveth you, that ye betake you to death in hunger and thirst, and he affirmeth, that the Lord your God shall deliver you from the hand of the king of Assyrians?
And after that these things were done, Sennacherib, [the king of Assyria], sent his servants to Jerusalem; for he himself, with all the host, besieged Lachish. He sent to Hezekiah, king of Judah, and to all the people that was in the city of Jerusalem, and said,