17. until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18. “ ‘Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19. Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria 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 should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”
21. But they held their peace, and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”