Does this language ring any bells for anyone? "they stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field." Have you heard of this place? It is the place where, thirty years earlier, God had sent Isaiah the prophet to meet Hezekiah's father, Ahaz, "at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field." It was here, thirty years earlier, that Isaiah told Ahaz to ask for a sign, "But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test.'" And so Isaiah replied, "The Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:3-14) So this is the place where God had promised Immanuel – God with us. In a very real way, Hezekiah himself was a partial fulfillment of this promise. Verse 7 of 2 Kings 18 tells us this: "The LORD was with him" Truly, with the coming of Hezekiah, there was at least a partial beginning of what God had promised: that he would be with his people! And now, in the same place where that promise was made to Hezekiah's father, comes precisely what his father had feared! The Assyrian army. Ahaz did not trust in the LORD. What will his son do?