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And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fuller’s field. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What is this trust that you have? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I say, ‘Your counsel and might for the war are only <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>empty words.’ Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, you trust in the staff of this crushed reed, <i>even</i> on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But if you say to me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So now, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>come make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to give riders for them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>How then can you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>turn away one <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>official of the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So now, have I come up <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>without the approval of Yahweh against this land to make it a ruin? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land and make it a ruin.’”’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>understand <i>it</i>; and do not speak with us in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, <i>and</i> not to the men who sit on the wall, <i>doomed</i> to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree, and drink each of the waters of his own cistern, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><i>Beware</i> lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria from my hand? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Who among all the gods of these lands <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>have delivered their land from my hand, that Yahweh would deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Or <i>launderer’s</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>words of lips</i><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Lit <i>palm</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>please exchange pledges</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>turn away the face of</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>governor</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>without Yahweh</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>hear</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Hebrew<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>Make with me a blessing</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>who have</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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