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three years they took it. In the sixth year of your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea 25 Have I now come up without the LORD against
king of Israel, Samaria was taken. Then the this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me,
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king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”
Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the 26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna,
Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak
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the Medes, because they did not obey the to your servants in Aramaic, for we under-
voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed stand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in
His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
the LORD had commanded; and they would 27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my
neither hear nor do them. master sent me to your master and to you to
13 And in the fourteenth year of King speak these words, and not to the men who sit
Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came on the wall, who will eat and drink their own
up against all the fortified cities of Judah and waste with you?”
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took them. Then Hezekiah king of Judah 28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out
sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, say-
“I have done wrong; turn away from me; what- ing, “Hear the word of the great king, the king
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ever you impose on me I will pay.” And the of Assyria! Thus says the king: ‘Do not let
king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Ju- Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able
dah three hundred talents of silver and thirty to deliver you from his hand; nor let
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talents of gold. So Hezekiah gave him all the Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying,
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silver that was found in the house of the LORD “The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall
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and in the treasuries of the king’s house. At not be given into the hand of the king of As-
that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the syria.” ’ Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus
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doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me
pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had by a present and come out to me; and every
overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria. one of you eat from his own vine and every
17 Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, one from his own fig tree, and every one of
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the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, you drink the waters of his own cistern; until
with a great army against Jerusalem, to King I come and take you away to a land like your
Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jeru- own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land
salem. When they had come up, they went and of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves
stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, and honey, that you may live and not die. But
which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you,
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18 And when they had called to the king, Eliakim saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any of
the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, the gods of the nations at all delivered its land
Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where
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the recorder, came out to them. Then the are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are
Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah?
‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my
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“What confidence is this in which you trust? hand? Who among all the gods of the lands
20 You speak of having plans and power for war; have delivered their countries from my hand,
but they are mere words. And in whom do you that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from
trust, that you rebel against me? Now look! my hand?’ ”
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You are trusting in the staff of this broken 36 But the people held their peace and
reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go answered him not a word; for the king’s com-
into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king mandment was, “Do not answer him.” Then
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of Egypt to all who trust in him. But if you say Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the
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to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the
He whose high places and whose altars son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah
Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah with their clothes torn, and told him the words
and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this of the Rabshakeh.
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altar in Jerusalem’?” ’ Now therefore, I urge
you, give a pledge to my master the king of As- Psalm 74:1–8
syria, and I will give you two thousand hors- A Contemplation of Asaph.
es—if you are able on your part to put riders
of the least of my master’s servants, and put O us off forever?
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on them! How then will you repel one captain God, why have You cast
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