2 Kings 18:13-19

Sennacherib Attacks Judah

13 aIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” bAnd the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents
A  talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15And Hezekiah dgave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria. 17And the king of Assyria sent the eTartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by fthe conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 18And when they called for the king, there came out to them gEliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and hShebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

19And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?
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