16. His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
17. He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”
18. They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
19. They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
20. Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
21. Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own bowels killed him there with the sword.