Rabshakeh Taunts Hezekiah

Isaiah 36:4-10

Rav-Shakeh addressed them: "Tell Hizkiyahu: 'Here is what the great king, the king of Ashur, says: "What makes you so confident?

I say: do mere words constitute strategy and strength for battle? In whom, then, are you trusting when you rebel against me like this?

Look! Relying on Egypt is like using a broken stick as a staff - when you lean on it, it punctures your hand. That's what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for anyone who puts his trust in him.

But if you tell me, 'We trust in ADONAI our God,' then isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hizkiyahu has removed, telling Y'hudah and Yerushalayim, 'You must worship before this altar'?

All right, then, make a wager with my lord the king of Ashur: I will give you two thousand horses if you can find enough riders for them.

How then can you repulse even one of my master's lowest-ranked army officers? Yet you are relying on Egypt for chariots and riders!

Do you think I have come up to this land to destroy it without ADONAI's approval? ADONAI said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it!'"'"

Rabshakeh Taunts Hezekiah

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