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Isaiah 36

About Isaiah Isaiah warns of judgment and promises comfort, a coming king, a suffering servant and a new creation.

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:1Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:2Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:3Ask

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?SelectedIsaiah 36:4Ask

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?SelectedIsaiah 36:5Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:6Ask

But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD 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?SelectedIsaiah 36:7Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:8Ask

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?SelectedIsaiah 36:9Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:10Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:11Ask

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?SelectedIsaiah 36:12Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:13Ask

Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.SelectedIsaiah 36:14Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:15Ask

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;SelectedIsaiah 36:16Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:17Ask

Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?SelectedIsaiah 36:18Ask

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?SelectedIsaiah 36:19Ask

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?SelectedIsaiah 36:20Ask

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.SelectedIsaiah 36:21Ask

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.SelectedIsaiah 36:22Ask

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