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Isaiah 36

Sennacherib Invades Judah

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 aNow in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,  bSennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

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And the  aking of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the  bconduit of the upper pool on the highway of the  1fuller's field.

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Then  aEliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and  bShebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.

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Then  aRabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, `Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What is this confidence that you  1have?

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"I say, `Your counsel and strength for the war are only  1empty words.' Now on whom do you rely, that  ayou have rebelled against me?

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"Behold, you rely on the  astaff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his  1hand and pierce it.  bSo is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

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"But if you say to me, `We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He  awhose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, `You shall worship before this altar'?

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"Now therefore,  1come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

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"How then can you  1repulse one  2official of the least of my master's servants and  3 arely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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"Have I now come up  1without the LORD'S approval against this land to destroy it?  aThe LORD said to me, `Go up against this land and destroy it.' ""'

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Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in  aAramaic, for we  1understand it; and do not speak with us in  2 bJudean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."

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But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"

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Then Rabshakeh stood and  acried with a loud voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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"Thus says the king, `Do not let Hezekiah  adeceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;

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nor let Hezekiah make you  atrust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

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`Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for thus says the king of Assyria, ` 1Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his  avine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the  bwaters of his own cistern,

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until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

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`Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, " aThe LORD will deliver us." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

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`Where are the gods of  aHamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of  aSepharvaim? And when have they  bdelivered Samaria from my hand?

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`Who among all the  agods of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the  bLORD would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?' "

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But they were silent and  aanswered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

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Then  aEliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and  bShebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.



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