וַיַּרְא֙ יְחִזְקִיָּ֔הוּ כִּי־בָ֖א סַנְחֵרִ֑יב וּפָנָ֕יו לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃
And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin
HALAKHAH: “The order of burning,” etc. Why does one not use the hard cloth alone? One said, that he should not die31To avoid strangling him.; as we find that when Hezekias closed the waters of the upper Giḥon spring322Chr. 32:2,4., he stopped it with soft clothing.