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Didn’t Hezekiah tear down his shrines and altars and make everyone in Judah and Jerusalem worship only at the altar here in Jerusalem? <a href="/esv/isaiah/36.htm">English Standard Version</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”? <a href="/bsb/isaiah/36.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’? <a href="/kjv/isaiah/36.htm">King James Bible</a> But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it 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? <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/36.htm">New King James Version</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 said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” ’ <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/36.htm">New American Standard Bible</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’? <a href="/nasb/isaiah/36.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220But if you say to me, &#8216We trust in the LORD our God,&#8217 is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, &#8216You shall worship before this altar &#8216? <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/36.htm">NASB 1977 </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’? <a href="/lsb/isaiah/36.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> 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’? <a href="/amp/isaiah/36.htm">Amplified Bible</a> But if you say to me, ‘We trust in and rely on the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’? <a href="/csb/isaiah/36.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the LORD our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’? <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/36.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Suppose you say to me, &#8216We trust in the LORD our God.&#8217 Isn&#8217t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, &#8216You are to worship at this altar? <a href="/asv/isaiah/36.htm">American Standard Version</a> But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? <a href="/cev/isaiah/36.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Is Hezekiah now depending on the LORD, your God? Didn't Hezekiah tear down all except one of the LORD's altars and places of worship? Didn't he tell the people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship at that one place? <a href="/erv/isaiah/36.htm">English Revised Version</a> But if thou 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 to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? <a href="/gwt/isaiah/36.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Suppose you tell me, "We're trusting the LORD our God." He's the god whose places of worship and altars Hezekiah got rid of. Hezekiah told Judah and Jerusalem, "Worship at this altar."' <a href="/gnt/isaiah/36.htm">Good News Translation</a> The Assyrian official went on, "Or will you tell me that you are relying on the LORD your God? It was the LORD's shrines and altars that Hezekiah destroyed when he told the people of Judah and Jerusalem to worship at one altar only. <a href="/isv/isaiah/36.htm">International Standard Version</a> But if you all 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 Jerusalem'? <a href="/msb/isaiah/36.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> But if you say to me, ?We trust in the LORD our God,? is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ?You must worship before this altar?? <a href="/net/isaiah/36.htm">NET Bible</a> Perhaps you will tell me, 'We are trusting in the LORD our God.' But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar.' <a href="/nheb/isaiah/36.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 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?'" <a href="/wbt/isaiah/36.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> But if thou shalt say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it 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? <a href="/web/isaiah/36.htm">World English Bible</a> But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh 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?’” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/36.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And do you say to me, We have trusted in our God YHWH? Is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has turned aside, and says to Judah and to Jerusalem, Bow yourselves before this altar? <a href="/ylt/isaiah/36.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves? <a href="/slt/isaiah/36.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And if thou shalt say to me, We trusted to Jehovah our God: is it not he whom Hezekiah turned away his heights, and his altars, and he will say to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar shall ye worship?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/36.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But if thou wilt answer me: We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he whose high places and altars Ezechias hath taken away, and hath said to Juda and Jerusalem: You shall worship before this altar? <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/36.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> But if you answer me by saying: ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Is it not his high places and altars that Hezekiah has taken away? And he has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar.’ <a href="/nabre/isaiah/36.htm">New American Bible</a> Or do you say to me: It is in the LORD, our God, we trust? Is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, commanding Judah and Jerusalem, ‘Worship before this altar’? <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/36.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> But if you say to me, ‘We rely on 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’?<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/36.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God; what has Hezekiah gained, in removing the shrines on the high places, and the altars, and in saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before one altar? <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/36.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And if you will say to me, ‘Upon LORD JEHOVAH our God we trust’, what has Hezekiah gained who removed sacrifices and the altars, and he said to Yehuda and to Jerusalem: ‘Before the one altar you shall worship?’<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/36.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> But if thou 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 to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar? <a href="/sep/isaiah/36.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> But it ye say, We trust in the Lord our God; <a href="/parallel/isaiah/36-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=7480" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/36.htm">Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem</a> …6Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: wə·ḵî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">But if</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ṯō·mar (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">you say</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·lay (Prep:: 1cs) -- To, into, towards. ">to me,</a> <a href="/hebrew/982.htm" title="982: bā·ṭā·ḥə·nū (V-Qal-Perf-1cp) -- To trust. A primitive root; properly, to hie for refuge; figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure.">‘We trust</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">in</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hê·nū (N-mpc:: 1cp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">our God,’</a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: hū (Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">is He</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: hă·lō·w- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">not</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">the One</a> <a href="/hebrew/1116.htm" title="1116: bā·mō·ṯāw (N-fpc:: 3ms) -- A high place. From an unused root; an elevation.">whose high places</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4196.htm" title="4196: miz·bə·ḥō·ṯāw (N-mpc:: 3ms) -- An altar. From zabach; an altar.">and altars</a> <a href="/hebrew/2396.htm" title="2396: ḥiz·qî·yā·hū (N-proper-ms) -- Yah has strengthened, a king of Judah, also several other Isr. ">Hezekiah</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5493.htm" title="5493: hê·sîr (V-Hifil-Perf-3ms) -- To turn aside. Or suwr; a primitive root; to turn off.">has removed,</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">saying</a> <a href="/hebrew/3063.htm" title="3063: lî·hū·ḏāh (Prep-l:: N-proper-ms) -- From yadah; celebrated; Jehudah, the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory.">to Judah</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: wə·lî·rū·šā·lim (Conj-w, Prep-l:: N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">and Jerusalem,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7812.htm" title="7812: tiš·ta·ḥă·wū (V-Hitpael-Imperf-2mp) -- To bow down. A primitive root; to depress, i.e. Prostrate.">‘You must worship</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: lip̄·nê (Prep-l:: N-cpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">before</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">this</a> <a href="/hebrew/4196.htm" title="4196: ham·miz·bê·aḥ (Art:: N-ms) -- An altar. From zabach; an altar.">altar’?</a> 8Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/2_kings/18-22.htm">2 Kings 18:22</a> But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’? <a href="/2_chronicles/32-12.htm">2 Chronicles 32:12</a> Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’? <a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm">Isaiah 37:10-12</a> “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. / Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared? / Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? <a href="/isaiah/30-1.htm">Isaiah 30:1-2</a> “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. / They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade. <a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Isaiah 31:1</a> Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8</a> Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made. <a href="/isaiah/10-20.htm">Isaiah 10:20</a> On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. <a href="/isaiah/30-15.htm">Isaiah 30:15</a> For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.” <a href="/isaiah/31-6.htm">Isaiah 31:6-7</a> Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel. / For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made. <a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-5</a> You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, <a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Deuteronomy 12:2-3</a> Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree. / Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place. <a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</a> He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it. <a href="/2_chronicles/31-1.htm">2 Chronicles 31:1</a> When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property. <a href="/psalms/115-4.htm">Psalm 115:4-8</a> Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. / They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; / they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; ... <a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm">Jeremiah 2:27-28</a> say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’ / But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?we trust<a href="/2_kings/18-5.htm">2 Kings 18:5,22</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… <a href="/1_chronicles/5-20.htm">1 Chronicles 5:20</a> And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.<a href="/2_chronicles/16-7.htm">2 Chronicles 16:7-9</a> And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand… is it not<a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Deuteronomy 12:2-6,13,14</a> Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: … <a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</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.<a href="/2_chronicles/30-14.htm">2 Chronicles 30:14</a> And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/31-9.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-9.htm">Altars</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-4.htm">Hezekiah</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-4.htm">Hezeki'ah</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-16.htm">High</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-2.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-1.htm">Judah</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-6.htm">Places</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Rely</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-20.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm">Trust</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-13.htm">Worship</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm">Altar</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm">Altars</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-14.htm">Hezekiah</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-14.htm">Hezeki'ah</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm">High</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-20.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-11.htm">Judah</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm">Places</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm">Rely</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-12.htm">Removed</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm">Trust</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-17.htm">Worship</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 36</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/36-1.htm">Sennacherib invades Judah</a> 2. <a href="/isaiah/36-2.htm">Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, solicits the people to revolt</a> 22. <a href="/isaiah/36-22.htm">His words are told to Hezekiah</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><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>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <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> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/36.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/36.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ This phrase reflects the challenge posed by the Assyrian field commander, questioning the validity of Judah's trust in God. Historically, this occurs during the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem under King Sennacherib. The Assyrians were known for their military prowess and psychological warfare, often attempting to undermine the confidence of their enemies. Theologically, this statement tests the faith of the Israelites, echoing the broader biblical theme of trusting God in the face of overwhelming odds, as seen in other scriptures like <a href="/psalms/20-7.htm">Psalm 20:7</a> and <a href="/proverbs/3-5.htm">Proverbs 3:5-6</a>.is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, Hezekiah's religious reforms are central here. He removed high places and altars to centralize worship in Jerusalem, as recorded in <a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</a>. This was in obedience to Deuteronomic law, which prescribed a single place of worship (<a href="/deuteronomy/12-5.htm">Deuteronomy 12:5-14</a>). The Assyrian commander misinterprets these actions as weakening Judah's religious structure, not understanding that Hezekiah's reforms were meant to purify and strengthen the worship of Yahweh by eliminating idolatry.saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’? The "altar" refers to the altar in the Temple of Jerusalem, the designated place for sacrifices and worship according to God's covenant with Israel. This centralization was intended to unify the nation under the true worship of Yahweh, contrasting with the syncretistic practices that had crept in over time. Theologically, this points to the importance of worshiping God as He commands, a theme that resonates throughout the Old Testament and is fulfilled in the New Testament through Jesus Christ, who becomes the ultimate altar and sacrifice (<a href="/hebrews/13-10.htm">Hebrews 13:10</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/h/hezekiah.htm">Hezekiah</a> The King of Judah who initiated religious reforms, including the removal of high places and altars to centralize worship in Jerusalem. 2. <a href="/topical/r/rabshakeh.htm">Rabshakeh</a> The Assyrian field commander who delivered a message from King Sennacherib of Assyria, challenging the faith of the people of Judah in their God. 3. <a href="/topical/j/judah_and_jerusalem.htm">Judah and Jerusalem</a> The southern kingdom and its capital, where Hezekiah reigned and sought to restore proper worship. 4. <a href="/topical/a/assyria.htm">Assyria</a> The dominant empire at the time, threatening Judah with invasion and attempting to undermine their trust in God. 5. <a href="/topical/h/high_places_and_altars.htm">High Places and Altars</a> Sites of worship that were often used for idolatrous practices, which Hezekiah removed to purify the worship of Yahweh.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god_alone.htm">Trust in God Alone</a> Hezekiah's reforms remind us that true worship and trust must be directed solely to God, not diluted by idolatrous practices. <a href="/topical/c/centralized_worship.htm">Centralized Worship</a> The removal of high places underscores the importance of worshiping God as He prescribes, emphasizing obedience to His commands. <a href="/topical/f/facing_challenges_with_faith.htm">Facing Challenges with Faith</a> Like Hezekiah, believers today are called to stand firm in their faith, even when external voices challenge their trust in God. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_prayer.htm">The Power of Prayer</a> Hezekiah's response to the Assyrian threat through prayer demonstrates the importance of seeking God's guidance and intervention in times of crisis. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a> Despite the Assyrian threat, the account reassures us of God's ultimate control and His ability to deliver His people.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_36.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 36</a> <a href="/q/why_does_rabshakeh_see_reforms_as_bad.htm">Isaiah 36:7: Why is removing high places presented by the Rabshakeh as a sign of God’s disfavor if Hezekiah’s reforms were meant to honor God? </a> <a href="/q/how_reconcile_rabshakeh's_claim_with_judah's_deliverance.htm">Isaiah 36:18-20: How do we reconcile the Rabshakeh's claim that no god has saved any nation from Assyria with the biblical assertion that the Lord ultimately delivered Judah?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_sennacherib's_invasion_dates.htm">Isaiah 36:1: How do we reconcile the biblical account of Sennacherib's invasion in Hezekiah's fourteenth year with Assyrian records that date this campaign differently?</a> <a href="/q/who_believed_in_the_old_testament.htm">Who were the believers in the Old Testament?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/36.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) Is it not he, whose high places . . .--This was this impression left on the mind of the Rabshakeh by what he heard of Hezekiah's reformation. From the Assyrian stand-point a god was honoured in proportion as his sanctuaries were multiplied, but wherever he went, the Rabshakeh had found "high places "where Jehovah had been worshipped, which Hezekiah had desecrated. How could one who had so acted hope for the protection of his God?<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/36.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 7. - If thou say to me, We trust in the Lord. "The Assyrians," it has been observed, "had a good intelligence department" (Cheyne). It was known to Sennacherib that Hezekiah had a confident trust, which seemed to him wholly irrational, in Jehovah - the special God of his people. It was also known to him that Hezekiah, in the earlier portion of his reign (<a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</a>), had "removed the high places" and broken down the altars, where Jehovah had for centuries been worshipped throughout the length and breadth of the land. He concludes that, in so doing, he must have offended Jehovah. He is probably ignorant of the peculiar proviso of the Jewish Law, that sacrifice should be offered in one place only, and conceives that Hezekiah has been actuated by some narrow motive, and has acted in the interests of one city only, not of the whole people. Ye shall worship before this altar. The parallel passage of 2 Kings (2 Kings 18:22) has "this altar in Jerusalem." The brazen altar in the great court of the temple is, of course, meant. Hezekiah had cleansed it front the pollutions of the time of Ahaz (<a href="/2_chronicles/29-18.htm">2 Chronicles 29:18</a>), and had insisted on sacrifice being offered nowhere else (<a href="/2_chronicles/29-21.htm">2 Chronicles 29:21-35</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/30-15.htm">2 Chronicles 30:15-24</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/31-1.htm">2 Chronicles 31:1</a>, etc.). Such a concentration of worship was unknown to any of the heathen nations, and may well have been unintelligible to them. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/36-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>But if וְכִי־ (wə·ḵî-) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction you say תֹאמַ֣ר (ṯō·mar) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say to me, אֵלַ֔י (’ê·lay) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to “We trust בָּטָ֑חְנוּ (bā·ṭā·ḥə·nū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_982.htm">Strong's 982: </a> To trust, be confident, sure in אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3069.htm">Strong's 3069: </a> YHWH our God,” אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ (’ĕ·lō·hê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative is He ה֗וּא (hū) Pronoun - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> He, self, the same, this, that, as, are not הֲלוֹא־ (hă·lō·w-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no the One אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that whose high places בָּמֹתָ֣יו (bā·mō·ṯāw) Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1116.htm">Strong's 1116: </a> An elevation and altars מִזְבְּחֹתָ֔יו (miz·bə·ḥō·ṯāw) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4196.htm">Strong's 4196: </a> An altar Hezekiah חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙ (ḥiz·qî·yā·hū) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2396.htm">Strong's 2396: </a> Hezekiah -- 'Yah has strengthened', a king of Judah, also several other Israelites has removed, הֵסִ֤יר (hê·sîr) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5493.htm">Strong's 5493: </a> To turn aside saying וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say to Judah לִֽיהוּדָה֙ (lî·hū·ḏāh) Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3063.htm">Strong's 3063: </a> Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites and Jerusalem, וְלִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (wə·lî·rū·šā·lim) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel “You must worship תִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֽוּ׃ (tiš·ta·ḥă·wū) Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7812.htm">Strong's 7812: </a> To depress, prostrate before לִפְנֵ֛י (lip̄·nê) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> The face this הַזֶּ֖ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> This, that altar”? הַמִּזְבֵּ֥חַ (ham·miz·bê·aḥ) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4196.htm">Strong's 4196: </a> An altar <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/36-7.htm">Isaiah 36:7 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-7.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 36:7 But if you tell me 'We trust (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/36-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 36:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 36:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/36-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 36:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 36:8" /></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><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>