²² But if you say to me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ is it not He whose high places and ^(A)whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? ²³ So now, ^[a]come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to give riders for them. ²⁴ How then can you ^[b]turn away one ^[c]official of the least of my master’s servants, and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? ²⁵ So now, have I come up ^[d]without the approval of Yahweh against this place to make it a ruin? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land and make it a ruin.’”’”

³⁰ and do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

³⁵ Who among all the gods of the lands ^[a]have delivered their land from my hand, ^(A)that Yahweh would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’”