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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?
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Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
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But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
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Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.