Isaiah · King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Isaiah 36 King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, [that] Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
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2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
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3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
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4 ¶ And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence [is] this wherein thou trustest?
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5 I say, [sayest thou], (but [they are but] vain words) [I have] counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
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6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
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7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
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8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
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9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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11 ¶ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand [it:] and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that [are] on the wall.
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12 ¶ But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
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13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
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14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
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15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
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17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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18 [Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
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20 Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
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21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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22 ¶ Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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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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