Isaiah 36

1Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:13 · 2Ki 18:17 · 2Chr 32:1 · Isa 1:7 · Isa 7:17 · Isa 8:7 · +2 more

2The 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:17 · 2Chr 32:9 · Isa 7:3 · Isa 22:9

3Then 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:16 · 2Sam 20:24 · Isa 22:15

4Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:5 · 2Ki 18:19 · 2Ki 19:10 · 2Chr 32:7 · 2Chr 32:14 · Ps 42:3 · +9 more

5I 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?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:7 · 2Ki 24:1 · Neh 2:19 · Prov 21:30 · Prov 24:5 · Jer 52:3 · +1 more

6Behold, 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:4 · 2Ki 18:21 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:1 · Isa 31:3 · Jer 37:5 · +1 more

7But 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’?”Cross-references: Deut 12:2 · Deut 12:13 · 2Ki 18:4 · 2Ki 18:22 · 1Chr 5:20 · 2Chr 16:7 · +8 more

8Now 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:40 · 1Ki 20:10 · 1Ki 20:18 · 2Ki 14:14 · 2Ki 18:23 · Neh 4:2 · +3 more

9How 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?Cross-references: Deut 17:16 · 2Ki 18:24 · Prov 21:31 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 30:2 · +5 more

10Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”Cross-references: 1Ki 13:18 · 2Ki 18:25 · 2Chr 35:21 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 37:28 · Amos 3:6

11Then 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 18:26 · Ezra 4:7 · Dan 2:4

12But 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?”Cross-references: Lev 26:29 · Deut 28:53 · 2Ki 6:25 · 2Ki 18:27 · Isa 9:20 · Jer 19:9 · +2 more

13Then 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!Cross-references: 1Sam 17:8 · 2Ki 18:28 · 2Chr 32:18 · Ps 17:10 · Ps 73:8 · Ps 82:6 · +5 more

14The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:10 · 2Ki 19:22 · 2Chr 32:11 · 2Chr 32:13 · Isa 37:10 · Dan 3:15 · +4 more

15Don’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.”’Cross-references: Ps 4:2 · Ps 22:7 · Ps 71:9 · Isa 36:7 · Isa 37:10 · Isa 37:23 · +1 more

16Don’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;Cross-references: Gen 32:20 · Gen 33:11 · 1Sam 11:3 · 1Sam 25:27 · 2Sam 8:6 · 1Ki 4:20 · +8 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Deut 8:7 · Deut 11:12 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 18:9 · 2Ki 18:32 · +3 more

18Beware 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?Cross-references: 2Ki 18:33 · 2Ki 19:12 · 2Ki 19:17 · 2Chr 32:13 · Ps 12:4 · Ps 92:5 · +13 more

19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?Cross-references: Num 34:8 · 2Sam 8:9 · 2Ki 17:5 · 2Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 18:10 · Isa 10:9 · +2 more

20Who 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?’”Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · 1Ki 20:23 · 2Ki 19:22 · 2Chr 32:15 · 2Chr 32:19 · Job 15:25 · +7 more

21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”Cross-references: 2Ki 18:26 · 2Ki 18:37 · Ps 38:13 · Ps 39:1 · Prov 9:7 · Prov 26:4 · +2 more

22Then 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:7 · Ezra 9:3 · Isa 33:7 · Isa 36:3 · Isa 36:11 · Isa 37:1 · +1 more