2 Kings 19:14 meaning and explanation

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

2 Kings 19:14, Berean Standard Bible

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Hezekiah is king of Judah, and Assyria's Rabshakeh has just delivered a letter from Sennacherib mocking his trust in God and listing the nations Assyria has already destroyed. Rather than answer the taunt himself, Hezekiah takes the scroll up to the temple and lays it open before the LORD, as though handing the matter over to God to read.

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