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Isaiah 36 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured 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 Then the king of Assyria sent the chief commander from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a great army. He approached the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the launderers' field, and stood by it.
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 The Israelite officials who went out of the city to talk with them were Hilkiah's son Eliakim, the palace administrator, Shebna the king's secretary, and Asaph's son Joah, who wrote down the government decisions.
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 The chief commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that the great king, the king of Assyria, says, 'What is the source of your confidence?
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 You speak only useless words, saying there is counsel and strength for war. Now in whom are you trusting? Who has given you courage to rebel 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 Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed that you use as a walking staff, but if a man leans on it, it will stick into his hand and pierce it. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is to anyone who trusts 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 you say to me, “We are trusting in Yahweh our God,” is not he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
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 Now therefore, I want to make you a good offer from my master the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to find riders for 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 How could you resist even one captain of the least of my master's servants? You have put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen!
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 Now then, have I traveled up here without Yahweh to fight against this land and destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Attack 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 son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah said to the chief commander, “Please speak to your servants in the Aramean language, Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak with us in the language of Judah in the ears of the people who are 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 But the chief commander said, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men who sit on the wall, who will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine 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 Then the chief commander stood and shouted in a loud voice in the Jews' language, saying, “Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
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 The king says, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you.
14 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
15 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely rescue us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”'
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 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 from his own fig tree, and drink from the water in his own cistern.
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 You will do this 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.'
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 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you, saying, 'Yahweh will rescue us.' Has any of the gods of the peoples rescued them from the hand of the king of Assyria?
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 are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my power?
19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
20 Among all the gods of these lands, is there any god who has rescued his land from my power, as if Yahweh could save Jerusalem from my power?”
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 But the people remained silent and did not respond, for the king's order was, “Do not answer him.”
21 But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and reported to him the words of the chief commander.
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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