²² But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and ^(A)whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? ²³ Now therefore, ^[a]come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. ²⁴ How then can you ^[b]repulse one ^[c]official of the least of my master’s servants, and ^[d]rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? ²⁵ Have I now come up ^[e]without the Lord’s approval against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

³⁰ nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

³⁵ Who among all the gods of the lands ^[a]have delivered their land from my hand, ^(A)that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’”