He replied, &#8220;No, let the <sc>Lordsc> help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him, &#8220;Help us, my master, O king!&#8221;

The <sc>Lordsc> provided a deliverer<n id="1" /> for Israel and they were freed from Syria&#8217;s power.<n id="2" /> The Israelites once more lived in security.<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc> had not decreed that he would blot out Israel&#8217;s memory<n id="1" /> from under heaven,<n id="2" /> so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.p>

Now, O <sc>Lordsc> our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, <sc>Lordsc>, are the only God.&#8221;p>

Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, saying, &#8220;I am your servant and your dependent.<n id="1" /> March up and rescue me from the power<n id="2" /> of the king of Syria and the king of Israel, who have attacked<n id="3" /> me.&#8221;