9 Then the Assyrian king learned that Cush’s King Tirhakah was on his way to fight against him. So he sent messengers to Hezekiah again:
10 "Say this to Judah’s King Hezekiah: Don’t let the God you trust deceive you by saying, ‘Jerusalem won’t fall to the Assyrian king.’
11 You yourself have heard what Assyrian kings do to other countries, wiping them out. Is it likely that you will be saved?
12 Did the gods of the nations that my ancestors destroyed save them, the gods of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, or the people of Eden in Telassar?
13 Where now is Hamath’s king, Arpad’s king, or the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?"
14 Hezekiah took the letters from the messengers and read them. Then he went to the temple and spread them out before the Lord.
15 Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: