1 And it happened that, in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he seized them.
2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish into Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with a great force, and he stood near the aqueduct of the upper pool, at the road to the fuller's field.
3 And those who went to him were Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the historian.
4 And Rabshakeh said to them: 'Tell Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians: What is this faith in which you believe?
5 And by what counsel or strength would you prepare to rebel? In whom do you have faith, so much so that you would withdraw from me?
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