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Sennacherib
Invades Judah |
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| Isaiah 36:1 |
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Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah
and seized them. |
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| Isaiah 36:2 |
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And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from
Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit
of the upper pool on the highway of the fuller's field. |
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| Isaiah 36:3 |
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Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder,
came out to him. |
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| Isaiah 36:4 |
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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? |
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| Isaiah 36:5 |
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"I say, 'Your counsel and strength for the war
are only empty words.' Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against
me? |
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| Isaiah 36:6 |
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"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. |
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| Isaiah 36:7 |
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"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'? |
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| Isaiah 36:8 |
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"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. |
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| Isaiah 36:9 |
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"How then can you repulse one official of the
least of my master's servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? |
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| Isaiah 36:10 |
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"Have I now come up without the LORD'S approval
against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land
and destroy it.'"'" |
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| Isaiah 36:11 |
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Then Eliakim and Shebna 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." |
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| Isaiah 36:12 |
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But Rabshakeh said, "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?" |
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| Isaiah 36:13 |
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Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice
in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria |
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| Isaiah 36:14 |
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"Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive
you, for he will not be able to deliver you; |
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| Isaiah 36:15 |
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nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,
saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us, this city will not be given into the
hand of the king of Assyria." |
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| Isaiah 36:16 |
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'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, |
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| Isaiah 36:17 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 36:18 |
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'Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you,
saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered
his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? |
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| Isaiah 36:19 |
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'Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where
are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they delivered Samaria from my hand? |
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| Isaiah 36:20 |
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'Who among all the gods of these lands have
delivered their land from my hand, that the LORD would deliver Jerusalem from
my hand?'" |
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| Isaiah 36:21 |
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But they were silent and answered him not a
word; for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him." |
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| Isaiah 36:22 |
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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. |
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