"Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth:
Thou hast made heaven and earth."--_Isaiah 37:16._
HEZEKIAH was king of Jerusalem. He was very good, and always served God
and prayed to Him. But a great fierce king named Sennacherib brought
an army into his land, and ruined all his towns and villages except
Jerusalem, and shut up Hezekiah in his town, so that his people could
not dare to come out.
And Sennacherib wrote a letter to tell Hezekiah that it was no use to
hope to escape, he was coming to take away the Jews and ruin Jerusalem;
and this wicked man even said that Hezekiah need not think that his God
would save him, for no nation had ever yet been saved by its gods, so
the God of Hezekiah could not help him.