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When the field commander stopped at the aqueduct at the Upper Pool on the road to Laundryman’s Field, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph’s son Joah, the recorder, went out to him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The field commander told them:</p> <p class="reg margintop">“Tell Hezekiah, king of Judah,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector deleted king of Judah; MT LXX lack king of Judah">d</a></span> ‘This is what the mighty king, the king of Assyria, has to say: What is this “guarantee” that makes you yourself<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack yourself">e</a></span> rely on it?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack on it">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do you really think that guarantees alone can withstand<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:5 Lit. that words alone equal">g</a></span> strategy and military strength? On whom are you now depending, that you’re rebelling against me? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Take note: you’re relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the palm of anyone who leans on it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like to everybody who depends on him!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But if you all<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads you (sing.)">h</a></span> say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, while he kept on telling Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship in front of this altar in<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:7 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks while he kept on telling Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship in front of this altar in Jerusalem’">i</a></span> Jerusalem’?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:7 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector deleted in Jerusalem; the Heb. lacks in Jerusalem">j</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Come now, all of you,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:8 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads you (sing.)">k</a></span> make a bet with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you can furnish riders for them! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>How, then, can you repulse even one officer from<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one of">l</a></span> the least of my master’s officials, when you are depending for yourselves<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads yourself">m</a></span> on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>One other thing: have I really marched against this country to destroy it apart from the LORD’s direction?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:10 1QIsaa MT lack ‘s direction">n</a></span> The LORD himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and">o</a></span> destroy it.’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:10 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks The LORD himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to destroy it.’">p</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah replied to him,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:11 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads to the field commander">q</a></span> “Please speak with<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads to">r</a></span> your servants—with us<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="6:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack —with us—">s</a></span> —in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:11 Lit. in these words; so 1QIsaa; MT LXX read in the Judean language">t</a></span> where the people sitting on<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:11 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks sitting; cf. LXX">u</a></span> the wall can hear.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But the field commander asked, “Was it only to all of you and to your<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:12 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT reads your (sing.) master and to you (sing.)">v</a></span> master that my master sent me to speak these things? Wasn’t it also to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then the<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:13 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks the">w</a></span> commander stood up and shouted out loud in Hebrew:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:13 Or the Judean language">x</a></span> </p> <p class="reg margintop">“Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>This is what the king of Assyria<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack of Assyria">y</a></span> says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you—for he cannot save you! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the LORD when he says, “The LORD will really deliver<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:15 Or save">z</a></span> us!” and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:15 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks and">aa</a></span> “This city will never be handed over to the king of Assyria!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Don’t listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then everyone will eat from his own vine and from his own fig tree, and everyone will drink water from his own cistern, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://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—to<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:17 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks to">bb</a></span> a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Be careful not to let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, “The LORD will save us.” Has any god of any nation ever delivered<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:18 Or saved">cc</a></span> his country from the<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:18 Lit. the hand of the">dd</a></span> king of Assyria? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sephar-vaim? Have they saved Samaria from me?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:19 Lit. from my hand">ee</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Who among all the gods of these countries has delivered<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:20 Or saved">ff</a></span> their land from me?<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:20 Lit. from my hand">gg</a></span> How then can the LORD deliver<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:20 Or saved">hh</a></span> Jerusalem from me?’”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:20 Lit. from my hand">ii</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But the people remained silent and didn’t respond to him with so much as a single word, because the king had commanded, “Don’t answer him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/36-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph’s son Joah, the recorder, approached Hezekiah with their clothes torn,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="36:22 i.e. as a symbol of pending disaster">jj</a></span> and let him know what the field commander had said.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 36:1 The Heb. name <i>Hezekiah</i> is usu. spelled <i>Hizqiyah</i> in 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT spell the name <i>Hizqiyahu</i>.<br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 36:2 Or <i>sent Rab-shakeh</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 36:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>very</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 36:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector deleted <i>king of Judah</i>; MT LXX lack <i>king of Judah</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 36:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>yourself</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 36:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>on it</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 36:5 Lit. <i>that words alone equal</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 36:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads <i>you</i> (sing.)<br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 36:7 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks <i>while he kept on telling Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship in front of this altar in Jerusalem’</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 36:7 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector deleted <i>in Jerusalem</i>; the Heb. lacks <i>in Jerusalem</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 36:8 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads <i>you</i> (sing.)<br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>one of</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>yourself</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 36:10 1QIsaa MT lack <i>‘s direction</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 36:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 36:10 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks <i>The LORD himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to destroy it.’</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 36:11 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads <i>to the field commander</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 36:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>to</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 6:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>—with us—</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 36:11 Lit. <i>in these words</i>;<i> s</i>o 1QIsaa; MT LXX read <i>in the Judean language</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 36:11 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>sitting</i>; cf. LXX<br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 36:12 So 1QIsaa (pl.); MT reads <i>your </i>(sing.) <i>master and to you </i>(sing.)<br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 36:13 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>the</i><br /><span class="fnb">x</span> 36:13 Or <i>the Judean language</i><br /><span class="fnb">y</span> 36:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack <i>of Assyria</i><br /><span class="fnb">z</span> 36:15 Or <i>save</i><br /><span class="fnb">aa</span> 36:15 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT lacks <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">bb</span> 36:17 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks <i>to</i><br /><span class="fnb">cc</span> 36:18 Or <i>saved</i><br /><span class="fnb">dd</span> 36:18 Lit. <i>the hand of the</i><br /><span class="fnb">ee</span> 36:19 Lit. <i>from my hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">ff</span> 36:20 Or <i>saved</i><br /><span class="fnb">gg</span> 36:20 Lit. <i>from my hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">hh</span> 36:20 Or <i>saved</i><br /><span class="fnb">ii</span> 36:20 Lit. <i>from my hand</i><br /><span class="fnb">jj</span> 36:22 i.e. as a symbol of pending disaster<br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<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"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>