And the Rab-shakeh said to them, 'Say to Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you base this confidence of yours?' — the Rab-shakeh's opening challenge questions Hezekiah's basis for resistance. The phrase 'on what do you base this confidence' becomes the theological crux: is Hezekiah's confidence placed in military strength, Egypt's support, or the LORD? The Rab-shakeh's challenge prepares for the following verses' deconstruction of Hezekiah's bases of confidence.

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