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Isaiah 36 Majority Standard Bible
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1 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
1 ACONTECIÓ en el año catorce del rey Ezechîas, que Sennachêrib rey de Asiria subió contra todas las ciudades fuertes de Judá, y tomólas.
2 And 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.
2 Y el rey de Asiria envió á Rabsaces con grande ejército desde Lachîs á Jerusalem al rey Ezechîas: y asentó el campo á los caños de la pesquera de arriba, en el camino de la heredad del Lavador.
3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
3 Y salió á él Eliacim hijo de Hilcías mayordomo, y Sebna, escriba, y Joah hijo de Asaph, canciller.
4 The 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?
4 A los cuales dijo Rabsaces: Ahora pues, diréis á Ezechîas: El gran rey, el rey de Asiria, dice así: ¿Qué confianza es ésta en que confías?
5 You 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?
5 Digo, [alegas tú], (empero palabras vanas) [que tengo] consejo y fortaleza para la guerra. Ahora bien, ¿en quién confías que te rebelas contra mí?
6 Look 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.
6 He aquí que confías en este bordón de caña frágil, en Egipto, sobre el cual si alguien se apoyare, entrarásele por la mano, y se la atravesará. Tal es Faraón rey de Egipto para con todos los que en él confían.
7 But 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’?
7 Y si me dijeres, En Jehová nuestro Dios confiamos; ¿no es éste aquel cuyos altos y cuyos altares hizo quitar Ezechîas, y dijo á Judá y á Jerusalem: Delante de este altar adoraréis?
8 Now, 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!
8 Ahora pues yo te ruego que des rehenes al rey de Asiria mi señor, y yo te daré dos mil caballos, si pudieres tú dar caballeros que cabalguen sobre ellos.
9 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
9 ¿Cómo pues harás volver el rostro de un capitán de los más pequeños siervos de mi señor, aunque estés confiado en Egipto por sus carros y hombres de á caballo?
10 So 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.’”
10 ¿Y por ventura vine yo ahora á esta tierra para destruirla sin Jehová? Jehová me dijo: Sube á esta tierra para destruirla.
11 Then 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.”
11 Entonces dijo Eliacim, y Sebna y Joah á Rabsaces: Rogámoste que hables á tus siervos en lengua siriaca, porque nosotros la entendemos: y no hables con nosotros en lengua judáica, oyéndolo el pueblo que está sobre el muro.
12 But 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?”
12 Y dijo Rabsaces: ¿Envióme mi señor á ti y á tu señor, á que dijese estas palabras, [y] no á los hombres que están sobre el muro, para comer su estiércol y beber su orina con vosotros?
13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
13 Púsose luego en pie Rabsaces, y gritó á grande voz en lengua judáica, diciendo: Oid las palabras del gran rey, el rey de Asiria.
14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
14 El rey dice así: No os engañe Ezechîas, porque no os podrá librar.
15 Do 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.’
15 Ni os haga Ezechîas confiar en Jehová, diciendo: Ciertamente Jehová nos librará: no será entregada esta ciudad en manos del rey de Asiria.
16 Do 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,
16 No escuchéis á Ezechîas: porque el rey de Asiria dice así: Haced conmigo paz, y salid á mí; y coma cada uno de su viña, y cada uno de su higuera, y beba cada cual las aguas de su pozo;
17 until 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.
17 Hasta que yo venga y os lleve á una tierra como la vuestra, tierra de grano y de vino, tierra de pan y de viñas.
18 Do 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?
18 Mirad no os engañe Ezechîas diciendo: Jehová nos librará. ¿Libraron los dioses de las gentes cada uno á su tierra de la mano del rey de Asiria?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
19 ¿Dónde está el dios de Hamath y de Arphad? ¿dónde está el dios de Sepharvaim? ¿libraron á Samaria de mi mano?
20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
20 ¿Qué dios hay entre los dioses de estas tierras, que haya librado su tierra de mi mano, para que Jehová libre de mi mano á Jerusalem?
21 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
21 Mas callaron, y no le respondieron palabra; porque el rey así lo había mandado, diciendo: No le respondáis.
22 Then 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.
22 Entonces Eliacim hijo de Hilcías mayordomo, y Sebna escriba, y Joah hijo de Asaph canciller, vinieron á Ezechîas rotos sus vestidos, y contáronle las palabras de Rabsaces.
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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