The threat is proclaimed to the wall

13Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Judean, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.”

14Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.

15And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, ‘Yahweh will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me, and let each man eat from his own vine and each from his own fig tree, and let each man drink the water of his own cistern,

17until 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.

18Do not let Hezekiah mislead you, saying, ‘Yahweh will deliver us.’ Have any of the gods of the nations, each one, delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered their land from my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?