34. Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
35. Who among all the gods of the lands has delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem? ’ ”
36. But the people kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”
37. Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.