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"This is what you shall say to Hezekiah king of ^(F1)Judah: 'Do not ^(C1)let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, "^(C2)Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria."

'Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved?

'^(C1)Did the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed save them: ^(C2)Gozan, ^(C3)Haran, Rezeph, and ^(C4)the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

'^(C1)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?'"

Then ^(C1)Hezekiah took the ^(F1)letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and ^(F2)spread it out before the LORD.

Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said, "LORD, God of Israel, ^(F1)(C1)enthroned above the cherubim, ^(C2)You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

"^(C1)Incline Your ear, LORD, and hear; ^(C2)open Your eyes, LORD, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent ^(C3)to taunt the living God.

"It is true, LORD; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

and have ^(F1)hurled their gods into the fire; ^(C1)for they were not gods, but only the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

"But now, LORD our God, please, save us from his hand, ^(C1)so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, ^(C2)LORD, are God."

^(C1)Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of ^(F1)the 185,000 were ^(F2)dead.