He sent messengers into the city to King Ahab of Israel and said to him,“ This is what Ben-hadad says:

又差遣使者进城见以色列王亚哈，对他说：“便哈达如此说：

他派使者进城到以色列王亚哈那里，对他说：“便‧哈达如此说：

他派使者进城到以色列王亚哈那里，对他说：“便‧哈达如此说：

他派遣使者进城对以色列王亚哈说：

他派遣一些使者进城去见以色列王亚哈，对他说：“便．哈达这样说：

又差遣使者進城見以色列王亞哈，對他說：「便‧哈達如此說：

他派使者進城到以色列王亞哈那裏，對他說：「便‧哈达如此說：

他派使者進城到以色列王亞哈那裏，對他說：「便‧哈達如此說：

他派遣使者進城對以色列王亞哈說：

他派遣一些使者進城去見以色列王亞哈，對他說：“便．哈達這樣說：

他差遣使者進城來見以色列王亞哈，

遣使入城、見以色列王亞哈曰、便哈達云、

遣使入城、見以色列王亞哈、曰、便哈達云、

遣使者入城、見以色列王亞哈、

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, saying,“ This is what Ben-Hadad says:

Ben- Hadad sent messengers into the city. They spoke to Ahab, the king of Israel. They told him,“ Ben- Hadad says,

And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him,“ Thus says Ben-hadad:

Ben hadad sent messengers into the city to relay this message to King Ahab of Israel:“ This is what Ben hadad says:

Then he sent messengers to the city to Ahab, king of Israel, and said to him,“ This is what Ben hadad says:

Then he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him,“ Thus says Ben-Hadad:

And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben- hadad,

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him,“ This is what Ben-hadad says:

And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

He sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city.

He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him,“ Ben Hadad says,

The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush,“ Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Then the king of Assyria sent his royal spokesman, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. The Assyrian stood near the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to Launderer’s Field.Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to him.The royal spokesman said to them,“ Tell Hezekiah: The great king, the king of Assyria, says this: What are you relying on?You think mere words are strategy and strength for war. Who are you now relying on that you have rebelled against me?Look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who grabs it and leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.Suppose you say to me,‘ We rely on the LORD our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem,‘ You are to worship at this altar’?“ Now make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I’ll give you two thousand horses if you’re able to supply riders for them!How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?Have I attacked this land to destroy it without the LORD’s approval? The LORD said to me,‘ Attack this land and destroy it.’”Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the royal spokesman,“ Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”But the royal spokesman replied,“ Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”Then the royal spokesman stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!This is what the king says:“ Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot rescue you.Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the LORD, saying,‘ The LORD will certainly rescue us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’”Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says:“ Make peace with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cisternuntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land— a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying,‘ The LORD will rescue us.’ Has any one of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?Who among all the gods of these lands ever rescued his land from my power? So will the LORD rescue Jerusalem from my power?”But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was,“ Don’t answer him.”Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the royal spokesman.

The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush,“ He has set out to fight against you.” So when he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,“ Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah:‘ Don’t let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem won’t be handed over to the king of Assyria.