29 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive(A) you; he can’t deliver you from my hand.(B) 30 Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord by saying: Certainly the Lord will deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’(C)

31 “Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace[a] with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree,(D) and every one may drink water from his own cistern

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:31 Lit a blessing

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