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    Isaiah 36

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    The Rabshakeh offers Judah two thousand horses, provided Judah can find riders for them—a gift with its little insult neatly tied on.

    The offer at the upper poolvv. 1–10

    In Hezekiah’s fourteenth year, Sennacherib took Judah’s fortified cities and sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem with a great army. The Rabshakeh stopped beside the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field, where Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah came out to meet him. His speech began by asking what confidence could possibly rest on: strategy, strength, Egypt, or the LORD. He even offered two thousand horses, though the offer arrived already wearing its taunt. Then, with striking confidence, he said that the LORD Himself had sent him to destroy the land.

    The speech for the wallvv. 11–22

    Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah asked for Aramaic, hoping to keep the speech from the people on the wall. The Rabshakeh preferred an audience, and called out loudly in Hebrew instead. He told the people not to trust Hezekiah or the LORD, offered them vines, fig trees, cisterns, grain, new wine, bread, and vineyards, and then carried out a tour of conquered gods, ending with the question of how the LORD could deliver Jerusalem. The people answered with silence, because Hezekiah had commanded it. The three officials returned with torn clothes and reported the words to him; a diplomatic meeting had become an exceedingly public one.

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    1. Isa 36:1In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    2. Isa 36:2And 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.

    3. Isa 36:3Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

    4. Isa 36:4The 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?

    5. Isa 36:5You 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?

    6. Isa 36:6Look 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. Isa 36:7But 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’?

    8. Isa 36:8Now, 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!

    9. Isa 36:9For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

    10. Isa 36:10So 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.’”

    11. Isa 36:11Then 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.”

    12. Isa 36:12But 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?”

    13. Isa 36:13Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

    14. Isa 36:14This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

    15. Isa 36:15Do 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.’

    16. Isa 36:16Do 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,

    17. Isa 36:17until 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.

    18. Isa 36:18Do 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?

    19. Isa 36:19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

    20. Isa 36:20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

    21. Isa 36:21But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

    22. Isa 36:22Then 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.

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    • 6Ezekiel 29:6–7Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.
    • 12 Chronicles 32:1After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
    • 22 Chronicles 32:9–23Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:
    • 2Isaiah 7:3Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
    • 102 Kings 18:25So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
    • 11Ezra 4:7And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.
    • 12 Kings 18:13In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
    • 52 Kings 18:7And the LORD was with Hezekiah, and he prospered wherever he went. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.
    • 62 Kings 18:21Look 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.
    • 10Isaiah 10:5–7Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
    • 11Daniel 2:4Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, may you live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.”
    • 19Jeremiah 49:23Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
    • 19Isaiah 10:9–11“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
    • 22 Kings 18:17–37Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
    • 6Jeremiah 37:5–8Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem.
    • 6Isaiah 20:5–6Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.

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