Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s
reign
, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked
and
captured
all the fortified cities of Judah.
Now
it
happened
in the fourteenth year of king
Hezekiah
, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came
up
against
all the fortified cities of Judah ,
and
took
them
.
And
the king of Assyria sent the
Rabshakeh ,
with
a
great
army,
from Lachish to King Hezekiah at
Jerusalem
. And
he stopped
by the aqueduct
of the upper pool ,
on
the road
to
the Launderer’s
Field.
The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem
to
king Hezekiah with
a
great
army
. He stood
by the conduit
of the upper pool in
the highway
of
the fuller's
field.
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace
administrator
, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder ,
went
out
to
him
.
Then came
forth
to
him
Eliakim the
son of Hilkiah ,
who
was
over
the household
, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah ,
the
son of Asaph ,
the recorder.
The
Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell
Hezekiah that
this
is
what
the great king, the king of Assyria, says:
What is the
basis
of
this confidence
of
yours
?
Rabshakeh said to them, Say
you
now
to
Hezekiah ,
Thus
says
the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence
is this in
which
you
trust
?
You
claim
to
have
a
strategy
and strength for war ,
but
these
are empty
words .
In
whom are
you now
trusting
, that you have rebelled against me?
I
say,
[your]
counsel
and strength for the
war are but
vain
words :
now
on
whom do
you trust
, that you have rebelled against me?
Look
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.
Behold
, you trust
on
the
staff
of
this
bruised
reed,
even
on
Egypt, whereon
if
a man
lean,
it
will go
into
his
hand ,
and
pierce
it :
so
is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on
him.
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 ’
?
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?
Now ,
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 !
Now therefore, please
give
pledges
to
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 .
For
how can you repel
a
single
officer
among
the least of my master’s
servants when
you
depend
on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
How then
can you turn
away
the face
of
one
captain
of
the
least of my master's
servants ,
and
put
your
trust
on Egypt for chariots and for
horsemen?
So
now,
was
it
apart
from
the
LORD
that
I have
come up against this land to destroy it? The
LORD
Himself
said to me, ‘
Go up against this land and destroy it. ’”
Am
I now
come up without
Yahweh
against this land to destroy it? Yahweh
said to me, Go up against this land ,
and destroy it.
Then Eliakim ,
Shebna ,
and Joah said
to the
Rabshakeh, “
Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,
since
we understand it .
Do
not
speak to us in Hebrew
in the hearing
of the people on the wall. ”
Then said
Eliakim and
Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Please speak ,
to your servants in the
Syrian
language;
for
we understand it :
and
don't
speak to us in the
Jews'
language,
in the ears
of the people who
are
on the wall.
But the
Rabshakeh replied
, “
Has my master sent me to speak
these
words
only
to
you
and
your master, and not to the men sitting
on the wall, who
are
destined
with
you
to eat their own dung and drink their own urine
? ”
But Rabshakeh said
, Has my master sent me to your master, and to
you,
to
speak
these
words?
[has
he]
not [sent
me]
to the men who
sit
on the wall, to eat their own dung ,
and to
drink their own water
with
you
?
Then the
Rabshakeh stood and called
out
loudly
in Hebrew:
“
Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria !
Then Rabshakeh stood ,
and cried
with
a
loud
voice
in the
Jews'
language,
and
said,
Hear you
the words of the great king, the king of Assyria .
This
is
what
the king says:
Do
not
let Hezekiah deceive you ,
for he cannot
deliver you .
Thus
says
the king ,
Don't
let Hezekiah deceive you ;
for he will
not
be
able
to
deliver you :
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. ’
neither
let Hezekiah make
you trust in Yahweh
, saying,
Yahweh
will surely deliver us; this city shall
not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Do
not
listen to Hezekiah ,
for this
is
what
the king of Assyria says:
Make peace with me and come out to me .
Then
every
one
of
you
will
eat from
his own
vine and his own
fig tree, and drink water
from
his own cistern ,
Don't
listen to Hezekiah :
for thus
says
the king of Assyria ,
Make your
peace with me ,
and come out to me ;
and
eat you
everyone
of
his vine ,
and everyone
of
his fig tree, and drink you
everyone
the
waters
of
his own cistern ;
until I come and take you away to a land like your own —
a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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.
Do
not
let
Hezekiah mislead
you when
he
says
, ‘The
LORD
will deliver us. ’
Has the god
of any
nation
ever
delivered his land from
the hand of the king of Assyria?
Beware
lest
Hezekiah persuade
you, saying,
Yahweh
will deliver us. Has any
of
the gods
of the
nations
delivered his land out
of
the hand of the king of Assyria?
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from
my hand?
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and
have they delivered Samaria out
of
my hand?
Who among all the gods of these lands
has
delivered his
land
from
my hand ?
How
then
can
the
LORD
deliver Jerusalem from
my hand? ”
Who are
they
among all the gods of these countries,
that
have
delivered their
country
out
of
my hand ,
that
Yahweh
should
deliver Jerusalem out
of
my hand?
But the
people
remained
silent
and did
not answer
a word ,
for Hezekiah
had
commanded
, “Do
not
answer him. ”
But they
held
their
peace,
and answered
him
not a word ;
for the
king's
commandment
was
, saying,
Don't
answer him.
Then Hilkiah’s
son
Eliakim the palace
administrator
, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s
son
Joah the recorder came
to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they
relayed
to
him the words of the
Rabshakeh.
Then came
Eliakim the son
of
Hilkiah
, who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah ,
the son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder ,
to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told
him the words of Rabshakeh.
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