Isaiah 37:5

"So the servants of Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And Isaiah said unto them. Thus shall ye say to your master. Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."

Isaiah did not need to be solicited for prayer on behalf of Jerusalem; he had already been praying and was ready with an answer when Eliakim and Shebna with their delegation arrived. As Douglas pointed out, there were no less than four things which God promised would thwart and prevent Sennacherib's purpose toward Jerusalem. "First, God would put a spirit into him; secondly, he would hear a rumor; thirdly, he would return to his own land; and fourthly, in that land, he would fall by the sword."[2]

"Servants of the king of Assyria ..." (Isaiah 37:6). Hailey tells us that, "The word from which `servants' is here translated is a term of disparagement, a term that Leupold translates as `lads' or `young chaps.'"[3] It leaves us with the thought that, "you boys have not said anything of importance!"