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CHAPTER 36
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.
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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 fuller’s field.
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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.
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And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king
of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
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I say,
sayest thou,
(but
they are but
vain words)
I have
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest
against me?
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Lo, thou trustest 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.
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But if thou
say to me, We trust in the L
ORD
our God:
is it
not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah
hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
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Now
therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two
thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
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How then wilt thou turn away
the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen?
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And am I now come up without the L
ORD
against this land to destroy it? the
L
ORD
said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy 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.
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But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words?
hath 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?
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Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language,
and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
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Thus saith the king, Let not
Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
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Neither let Hezekiah make you
trust in the L
ORD
, saying, The L
ORD
will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the
hand of the king of Assyria.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make
an agreement
with me
by
a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every
one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters 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 corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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Beware
lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The L
ORD
will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of
the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Where
are
the gods of
Hamath and Arphad? where
are
the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of
my hand?
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Who
are they
among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of
my hand, that the L
ORD
should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
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But they held their peace, and
answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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