Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

In the 14th year of King Hisikaya, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. The ramschikah from Laksish said to his master: Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? On whom do you now rely that you have rebelled against me? Behold, you are relying on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master's servants when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Moreover, is it without