¹² Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.^(A) You yourself heard then that the Anakites^(B) were there and their cities were large and fortified,^(C) but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.”

²² He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows?^(A) The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.’^(B)

⁴ It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule^(A) the living God, and that he will rebuke^(B) him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant^(C) that still survives.”

³ Perhaps they will listen and each will turn^(A) from their evil ways. Then I will relent^(B) and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done.