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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 36
36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of
Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the
upper pool in the highway of the launderer's field.
36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over
the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say all of you now to Hezekiah,
Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein you trust?
36:5 I say, says you, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel
and strength for war: now on whom do you trust, that you rebel against
me?
36:6 Lo, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon
if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king
of Egypt to all that trust in him.
36:7 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said
to Judah and to Jerusalem, All of you shall worship before this altar?
36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray you, to my master the king
of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you be able on
your part to set riders upon them.
36:9 How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy
it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak,
I pray you, unto your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand
it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people
that are on the wall.
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master and
to you to speak these words? has he not sent me to the men that sit upon
the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with
you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and said, Hear all of you the words of the great king, the king
of Assyria.
36:14 Thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall
not be able to deliver you.
36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The
LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make
an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat all of you
every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink all of
you every one the waters of his own cistern;
36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver
us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand
of the king of Assyria?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered
their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of
my hand?
36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the
king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah
with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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