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He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool on the highway to the Launderers' Field. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do you think that empty words are strategy and power for war? Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Look, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But if you tell me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' isn't that 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="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now therefore, please make 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 set riders on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in the Judean language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Judean language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."' <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Iwah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/isaiah/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him." <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/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.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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