2 Kings 18:13-20

131Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them. 14Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “2I have done wrong. 3Withdraw from me; whatever you 4impose on me I will bear.” So the king of Assyria 5required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 156Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

17Then the king of Assyria sent 7Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the 8conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the 9fuller’s field. 18When they called to the king, 10Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and 11Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

19Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “12What is this confidence that you 13have? 20You say (but they are 14only empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, 15that you have rebelled against me?