Hezekiah spreads the letters

14Then Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them, and he went up to the house of Yahweh and spread them before Yahweh.

15And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying:

16O Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

17Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

18Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their own land,

19and have put their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of human hands, wood and stone; so they destroyed them.

20And now, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are Yahweh.