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But the Rab '
shakeh said to them , "
Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you ,
and not to the men sitting on the wall ,
who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine ?"
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Then the Rab '
shakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah : "
Hear the word of the great king ,
the king of Assyria !
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Thus says the king : `
Do not let Hezeki '
ah deceive you ,
for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand .
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Do not let Hezeki '
ah make you to rely on the LORD by saying ,
The LORD will surely deliver us ,
and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria .'
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Do not listen to Hezeki '
ah ;
for thus says the king of Assyria : `
Make your peace with me and come out to me ;
then every one of you will eat of his own vine ,
and every one of his own fig tree ,
and every one of you will drink the water 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 wine ,
a land of bread and vineyards ,
a land of olive trees and honey ,
that you may live ,
and not die .
And do not listen to Hezeki '
ah when he misleads you by saying ,
The LORD will deliver us .
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Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ?
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Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad ?
Where are the gods of Sepharva '
im ,
Hena ,
and Ivvah ?
Have they delivered Sama '
ria out of my hand ?
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Who among all the gods of the countries have delivered their countries out of my hand ,
that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ?'"