Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying: I am your servant and your son. Come help me against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.

King Sennacherib of Assyria returned to his home at Nineveh and stayed there.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: It will not take place! It will not happen!

How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is in the staff of the Assyrians' hands.

And hoshea

Ahaz took the silver and gold in the Temple of Jehovah and in the king's storehouse, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.

Hezekiah sent a message to Sennacherib at Lachish: I have done wrong. Stop your attack and I will pay whatever you demand. The emperor's answer was that Hezekiah should send him ten tons of silver and one ton of gold.

Presents

He defeated the Moabites. He made the prisoners lie down on the ground and put two out of every three of them to death. So the Moabites became his subjects and paid taxes to him.

General references

They will blockade all your cities until the high, fortified walls you trust come down everywhere in your land. They will blockade all the cities everywhere in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.

Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

I gave you a king when I was angry, and I took him away when I was furious.