³ So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem appealed to Hoham king of Hebron,^(A) Piram king of Jarmuth,^(B) Japhia king of Lachish^(C) and Debir^(D) king of Eglon.^(E)

¹⁴ So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:^(A) “I have done wrong.^(B) Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents^[a] of silver and thirty talents^[b] of gold.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem^(A)(B)

¹⁷ The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander,^(C) his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool,^(D) on the road to the Washerman’s Field.

⁹ Later, when Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces were laying siege to Lachish,^(A) he sent his officers to Jerusalem with this message for Hezekiah king of Judah and for all the people of Judah who were there: