34 Where is the god of Hamath and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
35 What god out of all the gods of the lands has delivered their land out of my hand that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36 But the people remained silent and did not answer him a word, for the king had commanded, saying, Do not answer him.
37 Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the writer of chronicles, came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent and told him the words of Rabshakeh.