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^(r)Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "^(s)I have done wrong. ^[d]Withdraw from me; whatever you ^[e]impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria ^[f]required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

^(t)Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the Lord , and in the treasuries of the king's house.

At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord , and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Then the king of Assyria sent ^(u)Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the ^(v)conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the ^[g]fuller's field.

When they called to the king, ^(w)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and ^(x)Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

Then Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "^(y)What is this confidence that you ^[h]have?

Then ^(al)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah ^(am)with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.