² Hezekiah received the envoys^(A) gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses—the silver, the gold,^(B) the spices, the fine olive oil—his entire armory and everything found among his treasures.^(C) There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.

³ Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did those men say, and where did they come from?”

“From a distant land,^(D)” Hezekiah replied. “They came to me from Babylon.”

⁴ The prophet asked, “What did they see in your palace?”

“They saw everything in my palace,” Hezekiah said. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”