15. Don’t let him fool you into trusting in the lord by saying, ‘The lord will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king!’
16. “Don’t listen to Hezekiah! These are the terms the king of Assyria is offering: Make peace with me—open the gates and come out. Then each of you can continue eating from your own grapevine and fig tree and drinking from your own well.
17. Then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one—a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards.
18. “Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, ‘The lord will rescue us!’ Have the gods of any other nations ever saved their people from the king of Assyria?
19. What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?
20. What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the lord can rescue Jerusalem from me?”
21. But the people were silent and did not utter a word because Hezekiah had commanded them, “Do not answer him.”