Isaiah 36
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Sennacherib’s Invasion
1In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, # 2Kg 18:13,17-37; 2Ch 32:1-16,18 Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, along with a massive army, from Lachish # Jos 15:20,39 to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. The Assyrian stood near the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to the Fuller’s Field. # Is 7:3 3Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, # Is 22:15,20-21 and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came out to him.
4The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
The great king, the king of Assyria, says this: What are you relying on? # Lit What is this trust that you trust 5I # DSS read You say that your strategy and military preparedness are mere words. What are you now relying on that you have rebelled against me? # 2Kg 18:7 6Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff # Ezk 29:6-7 that will enter and pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who trust in him. # Is 30:3-7 7Suppose you say to me, ‘We trust in 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’? # Dt 12:2-5; 2Kg 18:4-5
8Now make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I’ll give you 2,000 horses if you’re able to supply riders for them! 9How then can you drive back a single officer among the weakest of my master’s officers and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? # Is 20:5; 30:2-5,7; 31:3 10Have I attacked this land to destroy it without the Lord’s approval? The Lord said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’ ”
11Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, # Ezr 4:7; Dn 2:4 since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew # Lit Judahite within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”
12But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine? ”
13Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: # Lit Judahite
Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14This is what the king says: “Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, # Is 37:10 for he cannot deliver you. 15Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord will certainly deliver us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ ”
16Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace # Lit a blessing with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree # 1Kg 4:25; Mc 4:4; Zch 3:10 and drink water from his own cistern 17until 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. 18Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ # Is 37:10 Has any one of the gods of the nations # 1Ch 5:25; Is 37:12 delivered his land from the power of the king of Assyria? 19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? # Is 10:9-11; 37:11-13; Jr 49:23 Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my power? # 2Kg 17:6 20Who among all the gods of these lands ever delivered his land from my power? So will the Lord deliver Jerusalem.”
21But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.” # Pr 26:4 22Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 36
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1And it came to be in the fourteenth year of Sovereign Ḥizqiyahu that Sanḥĕriḇ sovereign of Ashshur came up against all the walled cities of Yehuḏah and took them.
2And the sovereign of Ashshur sent the Raḇshaqĕh with a great army from Laḵish to Sovereign Ḥizqiyahu at Yerushalayim. And he stood by the channel of the upper pool, on the highway to the Launderer’s Field.
3And there came to him Elyaqim son of Ḥilqiyahu, who was over the household, and Sheḇnah the scribe, and Yo’aḥ son of Asaph, the recorder.
4The Raḇshaqĕh then said to them, “Please say to Ḥizqiyahu, ‘Thus said the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshur, “What trust is this in which you trust?
5“I say: You speak of having counsel and strength for battle, but they are vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
6“Look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Mitsrayim, on which if a man leans, it shall go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh the sovereign of Mitsrayim to all who trust in him.
7“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in יהוה our Elohim,’ is it not He whose high places and whose slaughter-places Ḥizqiyahu has taken away, and has said to Yehuḏah and to Yerushalayim, ‘Bow yourselves before this slaughter-place’?
8“And now, I urge you, please give a pledge to my master the sovereign of Ashshur, and I give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!
9“And how do you refuse one officer of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Mitsrayim for chariots and horsemen?
10“And now, have I come up without יהוה against this land to destroy it? יהוה said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”
11And Elyaqim, Sheḇnah, and Yo’aḥ said to the Raḇshaqĕh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. And do not speak to us in the language of Yehuḏah in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
12But the Raḇshaqĕh said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13And the Raḇshaqĕh stood and called out with a loud voice in the language of Yehuḏah, and said, “Hear the words of the great sovereign, the sovereign of Ashshur!
14“Thus said the sovereign, ‘Do not let Ḥizqiyahu deceive you, for he is unable to deliver you,
15and do not let Ḥizqiyahu make you trust in יהוה, saying, “יהוה shall certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.” ’
16“Do not listen to Ḥizqiyahu, for thus said the sovereign of Ashshur, ‘Make peace with me by a present and come out to me. And let each of you eat from his own vine and each from his own fig tree, and each of you drink the waters of his own cistern,
17until I come. Then I shall take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18Beware lest Ḥizqiyahu mislead you, saying, “יהוה shall deliver us.” Has any one of the mighty ones of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur?
19Where are the mighty ones of Ḥamath and Arpaḏ? Where are the mighty ones of Sepharwayim? And when have they delivered Shomeron from my hand?
20Who among all the mighty ones of these lands have delivered their land from my hand, that יהוה should deliver Yerushalayim from my hand?’ ”
21But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the command of the sovereign was, “Do not answer him.”
22And Elyaqim son of Ḥilqiyahu, who was over the household, Sheḇnah the scribe, and Yo’aḥ son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Ḥizqiyahu with their garments torn, and they reported to him the words of the Raḇshaqĕh.
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