²² However, if you say to me, ‘We have trusted in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and ^(A)whose altars Hezekiah has removed, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? ²³ Now then, ^[a]come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them! ²⁴ How then can you drive back even ^[b]one ^[c]official of the least of my master’s servants, and ^[d]rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? ²⁵ Have I now come up without ^[e]the Lord’s approval against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

³⁰ And do not let Hezekiah lead you to trust in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will certainly save us, and this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”

³⁵ Who among all the gods of the lands are there who have saved their land from my hand, ^(A)that the Lord would save Jerusalem from my hand?’”