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class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/isaiah/36.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/isaiah/36.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master&#8217s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/36.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />With your tiny army, how can you think of challenging even the weakest contingent of my master’s troops, even with the help of Egypt’s chariots and charioteers?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/36.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/36.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/36.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/36.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/36.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />How then can you drive back <i>even</i> one official of the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/36.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master&#8217s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/36.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master’s servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/36.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />How then can you turn away one official of the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/36.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />How then can you repulse [the attack of] a single commander of the least of my master’s servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/36.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/36.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />How then can you drive back a single officer among the weakest of my master&#8217s officers and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/36.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />How then canst 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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/36.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />How could you even defeat our lowest ranking officer, when you have to depend on Egypt for chariots and cavalry? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/36.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />How then canst 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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/36.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />How can you defeat my master's lowest-ranking officers when you trust Egypt for chariots and horses?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/36.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />You are no match for even the lowest ranking Assyrian official, and yet you expect the Egyptians to send you chariots and horsemen. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/36.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />How, then, can you repulse even one officer from the least of my master's officials, when you are depending for yourselves on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/36.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master?s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/36.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Certainly you will not refuse one of my master's minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/36.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/36.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/36.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/36.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And how do you turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and trust on Egypt for yourself, for chariot and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/36.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And how dost thou turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and dost trust for thee on Egypt, for chariot and for horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/36.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And how wilt thou turn back the face of one prefect of the servants of my lord, the smallest of them, aid trust for thee upon Egypt for chariot and for horsemen?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/36.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one place, of the least of my master's servants? But if thou trust in Egypt, in chariots and in horsemen: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/36.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />So how will you withstand the face of the ruler of even one place, of even the least of my lord’s subordinates? But if you trust in Egypt, in four-horse chariots and in horsemen:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/36.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />How then can you turn back even a captain, one of the least servants of my lord, trusting, as you do, in Egypt for chariots and horses?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/36.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/36.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />How then can you turn away the face of one of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust in the Egyptian to give you chariots and horsemen?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/36.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And how do you turn away the face of one of the little Servants of my Lord, and you yourself are confident of the Egyptian to give you chariots and horsemen?<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/36.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/36.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And how can ye <i>then</i> turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider, are <i>our</i> servants.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/36-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=7505" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/36.htm">Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">8</span>Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! <span class="reftext">9</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/349.htm" title="349: wə·’êḵ (Conj-w:: Interjection) -- How?. Also eykah; and teykakah; prolonged from 'ay; how? Or how!; also where.">For how</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: tā·šîḇ (V-Hifil-Imperf-2ms) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">can you repel</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’êṯ (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: pə·nê (N-cpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition."></a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’a·ḥaḏ (Number-msc) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">a single</a> <a href="/hebrew/6346.htm" title="6346: p̄a·ḥaṯ (N-msc) -- A governor. Of foreign origin; a prefect.">officer</a> <a href="/hebrew/6996.htm" title="6996: haq·ṭan·nîm (Art:: Adj-mp) -- Small, young, unimportant. Or qaton; from quwt; abbreviated, i.e. Diminutive, literally or figuratively.">among the least</a> <a href="/hebrew/113.htm" title="113: ’ă·ḏō·nî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- Lord. Or adon; from an unused root; sovereign, i.e. Controller.">of my master’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/5650.htm" title="5650: ‘aḇ·ḏê (N-mpc) -- Slave, servant. From abad; a servant.">servants</a> <a href="/hebrew/982.htm" title="982: wat·tiḇ·ṭaḥ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-2ms) -- To trust. A primitive root; properly, to hie for refuge; figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure.">when you depend</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">on</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: miṣ·ra·yim (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">Egypt</a> <a href="/hebrew/7393.htm" title="7393: lə·re·ḵeḇ (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- From rakab; a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e. The upper millstone.">for chariots</a> <a href="/hebrew/6571.htm" title="6571: ū·lə·p̄ā·rā·šîm (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-mp) -- A steed, a driver, cavalry. From parash; a steed (compare cuwc); also a driver, i.e. cavalry.">and horsemen?</a> </span><span class="reftext">10</span>So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’ ”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm">2 Kings 18:19-25</a></span><br />The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours? / You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me? / Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-10.htm">2 Chronicles 32:10-15</a></span><br />“This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege? / Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’ / Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm">Isaiah 37:10-13</a></span><br />“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. / Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared? / Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/37-5.htm">Jeremiah 37:5-10</a></span><br />Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem. / Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet: / “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/29-6.htm">Ezekiel 29:6-7</a></span><br />Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel. / When Israel took hold of you with their hands, you splintered, tearing all their shoulders; when they leaned on you, you broke, and their backs were wrenched.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/10-13.htm">Hosea 10:13</a></span><br />You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/20-7.htm">Psalm 20:7</a></span><br />Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/118-8.htm">Psalm 118:8-9</a></span><br />It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. / It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/21-31.htm">Proverbs 21:31</a></span><br />A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-1.htm">Isaiah 30:1-5</a></span><br />“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. / They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. / But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Isaiah 31:1-3</a></span><br />Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. / Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers. / But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/20-5.htm">Isaiah 20:5-6</a></span><br />Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed. / And on that day the dwellers of this coastland will say, ‘See what has happened to our source of hope, those to whom we fled for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/7-4.htm">Isaiah 7:4-9</a></span><br />and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. / For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying: / ‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’ ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/8-12.htm">Isaiah 8:12-13</a></span><br />“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread. / The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5-6</a></span><br />Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">How then will you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?</p><p class="hdg">the least</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-8.htm">Isaiah 10:8</a></b></br> For he saith, <i>Are</i> not my princes altogether kings?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">2 Kings 18:24</a></b></br> 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?</p><p class="hdg">and put</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Isaiah 36:6</a></b></br> 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 <i>is</i> Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/30-16.htm">Isaiah 30:16,17</a></b></br> But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/17-16.htm">Deuteronomy 17:16</a></b></br> But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/3-3.htm">Captain</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-6.htm">Chariot</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Chariots</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-3.htm">Face</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-4.htm">Hope</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-8.htm">Horsemen</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-24.htm">Least</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-18.htm">Master's</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-18.htm">Officer</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/5-8.htm">Official</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-4.htm">Officials</a> <a href="/psalms/119-119.htm">Puttest</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">Reliest</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-7.htm">Rely</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">Repulse</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-2.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-9.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-8.htm">Single</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-7.htm">Trust</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-6.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-8.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/37-13.htm">Captain</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-17.htm">Chariot</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm">Chariots</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-2.htm">Face</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm">Hope</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-29.htm">Horsemen</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-13.htm">Least</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-9.htm">Master's</a> <a href="/jeremiah/20-1.htm">Officer</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-7.htm">Official</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-5.htm">Officials</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-4.htm">Puttest</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">Reliest</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-15.htm">Rely</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">Repulse</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-11.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-3.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-9.htm">Single</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-15.htm">Trust</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-17.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">Wilt</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 36</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/36-1.htm">Sennacherib invades Judah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">2. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/36-2.htm">Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, solicits the people to revolt</a></span><br><span class="reftext">22. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/36-22.htm">His words are told to Hezekiah</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Assyrian Empire was a dominant military power during this period, known for its vast and well-equipped army. The "single officer" refers to even the lowest-ranking Assyrian soldier, suggesting Judah's inability to withstand Assyria's might. This highlights the overwhelming strength of Assyria compared to Judah's weakened state. Theologically, it underscores the futility of relying on human strength rather than divine intervention, a recurring theme in the prophetic books.<p><b>when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?</b><br>Egypt was historically a powerful nation with a formidable military, often seen as a potential ally against common enemies. However, the prophets frequently warned against relying on Egypt, symbolizing reliance on worldly powers instead of God. In Isaiah's context, Egypt's military prowess, represented by "chariots and horsemen," was tempting for Judah as a source of security. This reliance is criticized throughout the Bible, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/31.htm">Isaiah 31:1</a>, which warns against seeking help from Egypt. Theologically, this phrase serves as a reminder of the importance of trusting in God's protection and provision rather than seeking alliances with earthly powers.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hezekiah.htm">Hezekiah</a></b><br>The King of Judah during the time of the Assyrian threat. He is known for his faithfulness to God and his efforts to reform Judah's worship practices.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/r/rabshakeh.htm">Rabshakeh</a></b><br>The Assyrian field commander who delivered a message from King Sennacherib of Assyria to King Hezekiah, challenging Judah's reliance on Egypt and questioning their trust in God.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/assyria.htm">Assyria</a></b><br>A dominant empire during this period, known for its military strength and conquests, including the siege of Jerusalem.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/e/egypt.htm">Egypt</a></b><br>A neighboring nation that Judah was tempted to rely on for military support against Assyria, despite God's warnings against such alliances.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The capital city of Judah, under threat from the Assyrian army during this account.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god_over_human_alliances.htm">Trust in God Over Human Alliances</a></b><br>The temptation to rely on worldly powers is strong, but true security comes from trusting in God. Hezekiah's situation reminds us to seek God's guidance and strength rather than turning to unreliable human solutions.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_futility_of_worldly_strength.htm">The Futility of Worldly Strength</a></b><br>The Assyrian challenge highlights the futility of relying on military might or political alliances. God's power surpasses all human strength, and His plans will prevail.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_in_the_face_of_intimidation.htm">Faith in the Face of Intimidation</a></b><br>Rabshakeh's taunts were designed to instill fear and doubt. Believers today can face similar challenges, but faith in God's promises provides courage and resilience.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_spiritual_leadership.htm">The Importance of Spiritual Leadership</a></b><br>Hezekiah's leadership and faith were crucial for Judah's survival. Spiritual leaders today must guide their communities to trust in God, especially in times of crisis.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_36.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 36</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_9_align_with_mercy.htm">How does the judgment in Ezekiel 9 align with other biblical passages emphasizing mercy and forgiveness?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_joseph_rise_to_power_in_egypt.htm">How did Joseph rise to power in Egypt?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_rahab_and_dragon_in_isaiah.htm">Isaiah 51:9 references the defeat of Rahab and the dragon. Is there any historical or archaeological evidence to clarify who or what these entities represent?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_god_both_merciful_and_vengeful.htm">What explains the apparent inconsistency between God's merciful nature elsewhere and the violent retribution depicted in Ezekiel 23:22-27?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/36.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 9.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">How then wilt thou turn away the face</span>, etc.? <span class="accented">i.e.</span> "How wilt thou be able to defeat, and <span class="accented">cause to retreat</span>, a single Assyrian captain at the head of his squadron?" <span class="cmt_word">And put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen</span>; rather, <span class="accented">but thou trustest in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen.</span> Consciousness of the weakness, with which Rabshakeh had just reproached them, had led to their application to Egypt for a chariot and a cavalry force. Egypt was well able to furnish both, and had sent a large force of both to the help of Ekron a short time previously ('Eponym Canon,' p. 133, 11. 48-56). That force had, however, suffered defeat at the hands of Sennacherib. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/36-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For how</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאֵ֣יךְ</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’êḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Interjection<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_349.htm">Strong's 349: </a> </span><span class="str2">How?, how!, where</span><br /><br /><span class="word">can you repel</span><br /><span class="heb">תָּשִׁ֗יב</span> <span class="translit">(tā·šîḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a single</span><br /><span class="heb">אַחַ֛ד</span> <span class="translit">(’a·ḥaḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> </span><span class="str2">United, one, first</span><br /><br /><span class="word">officer</span><br /><span class="heb">פַחַ֥ת</span> <span class="translit">(p̄a·ḥaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6346.htm">Strong's 6346: </a> </span><span class="str2">A governor</span><br /><br /><span class="word">among the weakest</span><br /><span class="heb">הַקְטַנִּ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(haq·ṭan·nîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6996.htm">Strong's 6996: </a> </span><span class="str2">Small, young, unimportant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of my master’s</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדֹנִ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏō·nî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_113.htm">Strong's 113: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sovereign, controller</span><br /><br /><span class="word">servants</span><br /><span class="heb">עַבְדֵ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḇ·ḏê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5650.htm">Strong's 5650: </a> </span><span class="str2">Slave, servant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">when you depend</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּבְטַ֤ח</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tiḇ·ṭaḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_982.htm">Strong's 982: </a> </span><span class="str2">To trust, be confident, sure</span><br /><br /><span class="word">on</span><br /><span class="heb">עַל־</span> <span class="translit">(‘al-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> </span><span class="str2">Above, over, upon, against</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Egypt</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצְרַ֔יִם</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·ra·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> </span><span class="str2">Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for chariots</span><br /><span class="heb">לְרֶ֖כֶב</span> <span class="translit">(lə·re·ḵeḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7393.htm">Strong's 7393: </a> </span><span class="str2">A vehicle, a team, cavalry, a rider, the upper millstone</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and horsemen?</span><br /><span class="heb">וּלְפָרָשִֽׁים׃</span> <span class="translit">(ū·lə·p̄ā·rā·šîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6571.htm">Strong's 6571: </a> </span><span class="str2">A steed, a driver, cavalry</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 36:9 How then can you turn away (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/36-8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 36:8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 36:8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/36-10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 36:10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 36:10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>