2Ki 18:13-19 | NASB2020 | STEP | Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah , Sennacherib king of Assyria marched against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

2 Kings 18:13-19

Invasion of Judah

13 ^aNow in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria marched against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them. 14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent messengers to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “ ^bI have done wrong. ^{▼▼Lit Turn back}Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will endure.” So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah the payment of three hundred ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 lb. or 34 kg}talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 ^eHezekiah then gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16 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 he gave it to the king of Assyria.

17 Then the king of Assyria sent ^fTartan, 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 ^gconduit of the upper pool, which is on the road of the ^{▼▼I.e., launderer’s}fuller’s field. 18 Then they called to the king, and ⁱEliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the household, ^jShebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the secretary, went out to them.

19 And Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says: “ ^kWhat is this confidence that you ^{▼▼Lit trust}have?