Sennacherib Invades Judah

¹³ In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. ¹⁴ King Hezekiah of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria, who was at Lachish, “I have violated our treaty.^[a] If you leave, I will do whatever you demand.”^[b] So the king of Assyria demanded that King Hezekiah of Judah pay 300 talents^[c] of silver and thirty talents of gold. ¹⁵ Hezekiah gave him all the silver in^[d] the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace. ¹⁶ At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts that he had plated^[e] and gave them to the king of Assyria.

¹⁷ The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser^[f] from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went^[g] and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.^{[h] 18} They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna, the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.