Isaiah:36

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* Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them . * Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem . And he stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool , on the highway to the Fuller 's Field . * And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah , who was over the household , Shebna the scribe , and Joah the son of Asaph , the recorder , came out to him . * Then the Rabshakeh said to them , "Say now to Hezekiah , "Thus says the great king , the king of Assyria : "What confidence is this in which you trust ? * I say you speak of having plans and power for war ; but they are mere words . Now in whom do you trust , that you rebel against me ? * Look ! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed , Egypt , on which if a man leans , it will go into his hand and pierce it . So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him . * "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 Jerusalem , "You shall worship before this altar '?"' * Now therefore , I urge you , give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria , and I will give you two thousand horses--if you are able on your part to put riders on them ! * How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master 's servants , and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen ? * Have I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it ? The LORD said to me , "Go up against this land , and destroy it ."' * Then Eliakim , Shebna , and Joah said to the Rabshakeh , "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic , for we understand it ; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall ." * But the Rabshakeh said , "Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words , and not to the men who sit on the wall , who will eat and drink their own waste with you ?" * Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew , and said , "Hear the words of the great king , the king of Assyria ! * Thus says the king : "Do not let Hezekiah deceive you , for he will not be able to deliver you ; * nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD , saying , "The LORD will surely deliver us ; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria ."' * Do not listen to Hezekiah ; for thus says the king of Assyria : "Make peace with me by a present and come out to me ; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree , and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern ; * 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 . * Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you , saying , "The LORD will deliver us ." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria ? * Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad ? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim ? Indeed , have they delivered Samaria from my hand ? * Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my hand , that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand ?"' * But they held their peace and answered him not a word ; for the king 's commandment was , "Do not answer him ." * Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah , who was over the household , Shebna the scribe , and Joah the son of Asaph , the recorder , came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn , and told him the words of the Rabshakeh .

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