Isaiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Isaiah 36 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians, came up against the strong cities of Judea, and took them.
1 Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
2 And the king of the Assyrians sent Rabshakeh out of Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large force: and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the way of the fuller’s field.
2 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
3 And there went forth to him Eliakim the steward, the [son] of Hilkiah, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the [son] of Asaph, the recorder.
3 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.
4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians, Why art thou secure?
4 Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
5 Is war carried on with counsel and [mere] words of the lips? and now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
5 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
6 Behold, thou trustest on this bruised staff of reed, on Egypt: [as soon] as a man leans upon it, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt and all that trust in him.
6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
7 But if ye say, We trust in the Lord our God;
7 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’?”
8 yet now make an agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if ye shall be able to set riders upon them.
8 Now therefore, please make a pledge 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.
9 And how can ye [then] turn to the face of the satraps? They that trust on the Egyptians for horse and rider are [our] servants.
9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10 And now, Have we come up against this land to fight against it without the Lord? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
10 Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
11 Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to him, Speak to thy servants in the Syrian tongue; for we understand [it]: and speak not to us in the Jewish tongue: and wherefore speakest thou in the ears of the men on the wall?
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
12 And Rabshakeh said to them, Has my lord sent me to your lord or to you, to speak these words? [has he] not [sent] me to the men that sit on the wall, that they may eat dung, and drink [their] water together with you?
12 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, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13 And Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians:
13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
14 thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you with words: he will not be able to deliver you.
14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
15 And let not Hezekiah say to you, That God will deliver you, and this city will not at all be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.
15 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If ye wish to be blessed, come out to me: and ye shall eat every one [of] his vine and his fig trees, and ye shall drink water out of your own cisterns;
16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
17 until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards.
17 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.
18 Let not Hezekiah deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?
18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where is the god of Hamath, and Arpad? and where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
20 Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
20 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?’”
21 And they were silent, and none answered him a word; because the king had commanded that none should answer.
21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
22 And Eliakim the [son] of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the military scribe, and Joah the [son] of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Hezekiah, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.
22 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.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Asaph
Named as the father of Joah, Hezekiah's recorder.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:3
Hezekiah
A great reformer who trusted God and saw Jerusalem delivered from Assyria.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chron. 29-32; Isa. 36-39; Matt. 1:9-10
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Kings 18:13; Isaiah 10:28–32; 2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 1:7–8
- 2 2 Chronicles 32:9–23; Isaiah 7:3; 2 Kings 18:17–37; Isaiah 22:9–11
- 3 2 Samuel 20:24–25; 2 Samuel 8:16–17; Isaiah 22:15–21
- 4 2 Kings 18:19–37; Psalm 42:10; Isaiah 37:11–15; Psalm 42:3; 2 Kings 19:10
- 5 2 Kings 18:7; Ezekiel 17:15; Proverbs 21:30–31; Proverbs 24:5–6; Jeremiah 52:3
- 6 Ezekiel 29:6–7; 2 Kings 18:21; Isaiah 30:1–7; Isaiah 31:3; Jeremiah 37:5–8
- 7 2 Kings 18:4–5; Psalm 42:10–11; 1 Corinthians 2:15; Psalm 42:5; Deuteronomy 12:13–14
- 8 1 Samuel 17:40–43; Psalm 20:7–8; 2 Kings 18:23; 1 Kings 20:10; Nehemiah 4:2–5
- 9 Isaiah 10:8; Isaiah 31:3; Isaiah 36:6; Isaiah 30:16–17; Isaiah 30:7
- 10 Isaiah 10:5–7; 2 Kings 18:25; 1 Kings 13:18; 2 Chronicles 35:21; Isaiah 37:28
- 11 Ezra 4:7; Daniel 2:4; 2 Kings 18:26–27
- 12 2 Kings 18:27; Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53–57; 2 Kings 6:25–29; Isaiah 9:20
- 13 2 Chronicles 32:18; Isaiah 36:4; Psalm 73:8–9; Psalm 82:6–7; Psalm 17:10–13
- 14 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:5–6; 2 Chronicles 32:13–19; 2 Kings 19:22; Isaiah 37:10–13
- 15 Isaiah 37:10; Matthew 27:43; Psalm 22:7–8; Psalm 71:9–11; Isaiah 37:23–24
- 16 Zechariah 3:10; 1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; 2 Corinthians 9:5; 1 Samuel 25:27
- 17 2 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 17:6–23; 2 Kings 24:11; 2 Kings 18:9–12; Exodus 3:8
- 18 Isaiah 37:17–18; Isaiah 36:15; Jeremiah 10:10–12; Isaiah 36:7; 2 Chronicles 32:13–17
- 19 Isaiah 10:9–11; Jeremiah 49:23; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:5–7; 2 Samuel 8:9
- 20 2 Chronicles 32:19; Psalm 50:21; Daniel 3:15; 2 Kings 19:22–37; Isaiah 37:23–29
- 21 Proverbs 26:4; Matthew 7:6; Psalm 39:1; 2 Kings 18:26; Psalm 38:13–15
- 22 Isaiah 36:3; Isaiah 33:7; Matthew 26:65; Ezra 9:3; 2 Kings 5:7
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