⁸ When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,^(A) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.^(B)

⁹ Now Sennacherib^(C) received a report^(D) that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,^[a](E) was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: ¹⁰ “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive^(F) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’^{(G) 11} Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?^{(H) 12} Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors^(I) deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran,^(J) Rezeph and the people of Eden^(K) who were in Tel Assar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad?^(L) Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim,^(M) Hena and Ivvah?”^(N)