Isaiah - Chapter 36 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, {cf15I that} Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
  • 2. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
  • 3. Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
  • 4. And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence {cf15I is} this wherein thou trustest?
  • 5. I say, {cf15I sayest thou}, (but {cf15I they are but} vain words) {cf15I I have} counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
  • 6. Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so {cf15I is} Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
  • 7. But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: {cf15I 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?
  • 8. Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
  • 9. 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?
  • 10. And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
  • 11. Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand {cf15I it}: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that {cf15I are} on the wall.
  • 12. But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? {cf15I hath he} not {cf15I sent me} to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
  • 13. Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
  • 14. Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
  • 15. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  • 16. Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make {cf15I an agreement} with me {cf15I by} a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
  • 17. 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.
  • 18. {cf15I Beware} lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  • 19. Where {cf15I are} the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where {cf15I are} the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
  • 20. Who {cf15I are they} among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
  • 21. But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
  • 22. Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that {cf15I was} over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with {cf15I their} clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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