15 So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.

16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the Lord’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.(A)

17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan,(B) the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem.(C) They advanced and came to Jerusalem, and[a] they took their position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is by the highway to the Fuller’s Field.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:17 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads and came and

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