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src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-1.htm">1</a>In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-1.htm">1</a>In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-1.htm">1</a>Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-1.htm">1</a>Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-1.htm">1</a>In the third year of Israel's King Hoshea son of Elah, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-2.htm">2</a>He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-2.htm">2</a>He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-2.htm">2</a>He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-2.htm">2</a>Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-2.htm">2</a>He was 25 years old when he became king and reigned 29 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi daughter of Zechariah. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm">3</a>He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm">3</a>And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm">3</a>He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm">3</a>And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-3.htm">3</a>He did what was right in the LORD's sight just as his ancestor David had done.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">4</a>He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">4</a>He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">4</a>He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">4</a>He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">4</a>He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm">5</a>Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm">5</a>He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm">5</a>He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm">5</a>He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm">5</a>Hezekiah trusted in the LORD God of Israel; not one of the kings of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">6</a>He held fast to the LORD and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">6</a>For he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">6</a>For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">6</a>For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">6</a>He remained faithful to Yahweh and did not turn from following Him but kept the commands the LORD had commanded Moses. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm">7</a>And the LORD was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm">7</a>And the LORD was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm">7</a>And the LORD was with him; wherever he went he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm">7</a>And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-7.htm">7</a>The LORD was with him, and wherever he went he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm">8</a>From watchtower to fortified city, he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm">8</a>He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm">8</a>He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm">8</a>He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-8.htm">8</a>He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders, from watchtower to fortified city. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">9</a>In King Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">9</a>In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">9</a>Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">9</a>And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-9.htm">9</a>In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Israel's King Hoshea son of Elah, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm">10</a>At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah's sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm">10</a>and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm">10</a>At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm">10</a>And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-10.htm">10</a>The Assyrians captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Israel's King Hoshea, Samaria was captured. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">11</a>The king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">11</a>The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">11</a>Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and put them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">11</a>And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-11.htm">11</a>The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria and put them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan's river, and in the cities of the Medes,</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm">12</a>This happened because they had not obeyed the LORD their God, but had violated his covenant--all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm">12</a>because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm">12</a>because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they would neither listen nor do it.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm">12</a>Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-12.htm">12</a>because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD their God but violated His covenant--all He had commanded Moses the servant of the LORD. They did not listen, and they did not obey. </td></tr></table> <a name="13" id="13"></a>Sennacherib Invades Judah (<a href="../2_chronicles/32.htm">2 Chronicles 32:1-8</a>; <a href="../psalms/46.htm">Psalm 46:1-11</a>; <a href="../psalms/47.htm">Psalm 47:1-9</a>; <a href="../psalms/48.htm">Psalm 48:1-14</a>; <a href="../isaiah/36.htm">Isaiah 36:1</a>)<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">13</a>In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">13</a>In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">13</a>Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">13</a>Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">13</a>In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm">14</a>So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish: "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me." The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm">14</a>And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm">14</a>Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm">14</a>And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-14.htm">14</a>So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay." The king of Assyria demanded 11 tons of silver and one ton of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm">15</a>So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the temple of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm">15</a>And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm">15</a>Hezekiah gave him all the silver which was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of the king's house.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm">15</a>And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-15.htm">15</a>So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the LORD's temple and in the treasuries of the king's palace. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm">16</a>At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors and doorposts of the temple of the LORD, and gave it to the king of Assyria.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm">16</a>At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm">16</a>At that time Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm">16</a>At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-16.htm">16</a>At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the LORD's sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria. </td></tr></table> <a name="17" id="17"></a>Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem (<a href="../2_chronicles/32.htm#9">2 Chronicles 32:9-19</a>; <a href="../isaiah/36.htm#2">Isaiah 36:2-22</a>)<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm">17</a>The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm">17</a>And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm">17</a>Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller's field.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm">17</a>And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-17.htm">17</a>Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced and came to Jerusalem, and they took their position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is by the highway to the Fuller's Field.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm">18</a>They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm">18</a>And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm">18</a>When they called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm">18</a>And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-18.htm">18</a>Then they called for the king, but Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebnah the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm">19</a>The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: "'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm">19</a>And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm">19</a>Then Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What is this confidence that you have?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm">19</a>And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-19.htm">19</a>Then the Rabshakeh said to them, "Tell Hezekiah this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: 'What are you relying on?</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm">20</a>You say you have the counsel and the might for war--but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm">20</a>Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm">20</a>"You say (but they are only empty words), 'I have counsel and strength for the war.' Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm">20</a>Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm">20</a>You think mere words are strategy and strength for war. What are you now relying on so that you have rebelled against me?</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">21</a>Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">21</a>Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">21</a>"Now behold, you rely on the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">21</a>Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">21</a>Look, you are now trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will enter and pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who trust in him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm">22</a>But if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"--isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm">22</a>But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm">22</a>"But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD 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 in Jerusalem '?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm">22</a>But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm">22</a>Suppose you say to me: We trust in the LORD our God. Isn't He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem: You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem?" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm">23</a>"'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses--if you can put riders on them!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm">23</a>Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm">23</a>"Now therefore, 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 set riders on them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm">23</a>Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-23.htm">23</a>So now make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria. I'll give you 2,000 horses if you're able to supply riders for them! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">24</a>How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">24</a>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?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">24</a>"How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master's servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">24</a>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?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">24</a>How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master's servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm">25</a>Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.'"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm">25</a>Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm">25</a>"Have I now come up without the LORD'S approval against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.'"'"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm">25</a>Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-25.htm">25</a>Have I attacked this place to destroy it without the LORD's approval? The LORD said to me, 'Attack this land and destroy it.'" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm">26</a>Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm">26</a>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm">26</a>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm">26</a>Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-26.htm">26</a>Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak with us in Hebrew within earshot of the people on the wall." </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm">27</a>But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall--who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm">27</a>But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm">27</a>But Rabshakeh said to them, "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, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm">27</a>But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-27.htm">27</a>But the Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Hasn't he also sent me to the men who sit on the wall, destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm">28</a>Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm">28</a>Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm">28</a>Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm">28</a>Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-28.htm">28</a>The Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew. Then he spoke: "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm">29</a>This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm">29</a>Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm">29</a>"Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hand;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm">29</a>Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-29.htm">29</a>This is what the king says: 'Don't let Hezekiah deceive you; he can't deliver you from my hand.</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm">30</a>Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm">30</a>Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm">30</a>nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm">30</a>Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-30.htm">30</a>Don't let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD by saying: Certainly the LORD will deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm">31</a>"Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm">31</a>Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm">31</a>'Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, "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,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm">31</a>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 then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-31.htm">31</a>Don't listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: 'Make peace with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and every one may drink water from his own cistern</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm">32</a>until I come and take you to a land like your own--a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.'</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm">32</a>until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm">32</a>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, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die." But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm">32</a>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, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-32.htm">32</a>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, a land of olive trees and honey--so that you may live and not die. But don't listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying: The LORD will deliver us. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm">33</a>Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm">33</a>Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm">33</a>'Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm">33</a>Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm">33</a>Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land from the power of the king of Assyria?</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm">34</a>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm">34</a>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm">34</a>'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm">34</a>Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-34.htm">34</a>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm">35</a>Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm">35</a>Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm">35</a>'Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?'"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm">35</a>Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-35.htm">35</a>Who among all the gods of the lands has delivered his land from my power? So will the LORD deliver Jerusalem?'" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/18.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm">36</a>But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm">36</a>But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm">36</a>But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm">36</a>But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-36.htm">36</a>But the people kept silent; they didn't say anything, for the king's command was, "Don't answer him." </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm">37</a>Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm">37</a>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm">37</a>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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm">37</a>Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which 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.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/2_kings/18-37.htm">37</a>Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh. </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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