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And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-3.htm">Isaiah 36:3</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-4.htm">Isaiah 36:4</a></div><div class="verse">And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence <i>is</i> this wherein thou trustest?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-5.htm">Isaiah 36:5</a></div><div class="verse">I say, <i>sayest thou</i>, (but <i>they are but</i> vain words) <i>I have</i> counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Isaiah 36:6</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7</a></div><div class="verse">But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: <i>is it</i> 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?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-8.htm">Isaiah 36:8</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm">Isaiah 36:9</a></div><div class="verse">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?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-10.htm">Isaiah 36:10</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-11.htm">Isaiah 36:11</a></div><div class="verse">Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand <i>it</i>: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that <i>are</i> on the wall.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-12.htm">Isaiah 36:12</a></div><div class="verse">But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? <i>hath he</i> not <i>sent me</i> to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-13.htm">Isaiah 36:13</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-14.htm">Isaiah 36:14</a></div><div class="verse">Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-15.htm">Isaiah 36:15</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-16.htm">Isaiah 36:16</a></div><div class="verse">Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make <i>an agreement</i> with me <i>by</i> 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;</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-17.htm">Isaiah 36:17</a></div><div class="verse">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.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-18.htm">Isaiah 36:18</a></div><div class="verse"><i>Beware</i> 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?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-19.htm">Isaiah 36:19</a></div><div class="verse">Where <i>are</i> the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where <i>are</i> the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-20.htm">Isaiah 36:20</a></div><div class="verse">Who <i>are they</i> 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?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-21.htm">Isaiah 36:21</a></div><div class="verse">But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/isaiah/36-22.htm">Isaiah 36:22</a></div><div class="verse">Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that <i>was</i> over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with <i>their</i> clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.</div><div class="comm"></div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible by Matthew Henry<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/35.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 35"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 35" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/37.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 37"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 37" /></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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/isaiah/36-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>