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,(A) and every one may drink water from his own cistern 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey(B)—so that you may live(C) and not die. But don’t listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying: The Lord will deliver us. 33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered(D) his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 18:31 Lit a blessing

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