2 Kings 18:15-17

Contemporary English Version

¹⁵ So Hezekiah collected all the silver from the Lord's temple and the royal treasury. ¹⁶ He even stripped the gold that he had used to cover the doors and doorposts^[a] in the temple. He gave it all to Sennacherib.

¹⁷ The king of Assyria ordered his three highest military officers to leave Lachish and take a large army to Jerusalem. When they arrived, the officers stood on the road near the cloth makers' shops along the canal from the upper pool.