And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?