17 Hezekiah strengthened the city's defenses, and he provided a water supply. He tunneled through rock with iron tools, and he constructed storage tanks for water.
15
In spite of these things, the people didn't change their hearts and lives, and they didn't turn from their sins until they were torn away from their land and scattered over the whole earth. The people who remained were few in number, but they had a ruler from the house of David.
16
Some of them did what pleased God, but others sinned even more.
17
Hezekiah strengthened the city's defenses, and he provided a water supply. He tunneled through rock with iron tools, and he constructed storage tanks for water.
18
During his rule, Sennacherib moved on Jerusalem, commissioned the field commander, and departed. The field commander attacked Zion, and made great boasts in his arrogance.
19
Then the people's hearts and hands were shaken, and they were in agony like a woman who is in labor.