Monday, August 17 [Hezekiah] allures you, saying, “Jehovah himself will deliver us.†—2 Ki. 18:32. Wisely, the people of Jerusalem did not try to respond to that slanderous propaganda, a course often followed by Jehovah’s servants in our day. (2 Ki. 18:35, 36) Hezekiah was understandably upset, but instead of turning to a foreign power for help, he sent for Isaiah the prophet. Isaiah told Hezekiah: “He [Sennacherib] will not come into this city nor will he shoot an arrow there.†(2 Ki. 19:32) All that was required of the inhabitants of Jerusalem was that they stand their ground. Jehovah would fight for Judah. And fight he did! “It came about on that night that the angel of Jehovah proceeded to go out and strike down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians.†(2 Ki. 19:35) Judah’s salvation came, not by Hezekiah’s stopping up the fountains of waters of the city nor by his building up its walls, but by divine intervention. w13 11/15 3:14, 15