1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], [that] Sancheriv [Sin (the moon) multiplied brothers] king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) came up against all the fortified cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and took them.

2 And the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) sent Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] from Lakhish [Invincible] to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] unto king Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the Launderers’ Field.

3 Then came forth unto him Elyakim [God sets up], Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah]’s son, which was over the house, and Shevnah [vigour] the scribe, and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother], Asaf [gatherer]’s son, the recorder.

4 And Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] said unto them, Say you2f now to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], Thus says the great king, the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), What confidence [is] this wherein youi trust?

5 I say, [say youi], (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom do youi trust, that youi rebel against me?

6 Lo, youi trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Par’oh [Pharaoh - Great House] king of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] to all that trust in him.

7 But if youi say to me, We trust in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] has taken away, and said to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and to Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], You2f shall worship before this altar?

8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray youi, to my master the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), and I will give youi two thousand horses, if youi be able on youri part to set riders upon them.

9 How then will youi turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put youri trust on Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] for chariots and for horsemen?

10 And am I now come up without the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) against this land to destroy it? the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11 Then said Elyakim [God sets up] and Shevnah [vigour] and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother] unto Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer], Speak, I pray youi, unto youri servants in the Arami [exalted] language; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Y’hudit (Y’hudim (Judeans)’) language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.

12 But Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] said, Has my master sent me to youri master and to youi to speak these words? [has he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

13 Then Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer] stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Y’hudit (Y’hudim (Judeans)’) language, and said, Hear you2f the words of the great king, the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).

14 Thus says the king, Let not Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

15 Neither let Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] make you trust in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).

16 Listen not to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength]: for thus says the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat you2f everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you2f everyone the waters of his own cistern;

17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18 [Beware] lest Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] persuade you, saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known)))?

19 Where [are] the gods of Hamat [Fortress] and Arpad [I shall be supported]? where [are] the gods of S’farvayim [the two Sipparas (the city of books)]? and have they delivered Shomron [watch mountain] out of my hand?

20 Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) should deliver Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] out of my hand?

21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

22 Then came Elyakim [God sets up], the son of Hilkiyahu [my portion is Yehovah], that [was] over the household, and Shevnah [vigour] the scribe, and Yo’ach [Yahovah is brother], the son of Asaf [gatherer], the recorder, to Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength] with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rav-Shakeh [chief cupbearer].