³⁴ Where are the gods of Hamath^(A) and Arpad?^(B) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? ³⁵ Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”^(C)

³⁶ But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”