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Ioah said vnto Rabshakeh, Speake I pray thee, to of Amoz. 3 And they said vnto him, Thus saith
thy seruants in the Aramites language, for we Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation and of
vnderstand it, and talke not with vs in the Iewes rebuke, and blasphemie: for the childre are come
tongue, in the audience of the people that are to the birth, and there is no strength to bring
on the wall. 27 But Rabshakeh saide vnto them, foorth. 4 If so be the Lord thy God hath heard
Hath my master sent me to thy master and to all the wordes of Rabshakeh, whome the King of
thee to speake these words, and not to the men Asshur his master hath sent to raile on the liuing
which sit on the wall, that they may eate their God, and to reproch him with wordes which the
owne doung, and drinke their owne pisse with Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou vp thy
you? 28 So Rabshakeh stoode and cryed with a prayer for the remnant that are left. 5 So the
loude voyce in the Iewes language, and spake, seruants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And
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saying, Heare the wordes of the great King, of the Isaiah said vnto them, So shall ye say to your
king of Asshur. 29 Thus sayth the King, Let not master, Thus sayeth the Lord, Be not afraide of
Hezekiah deceiue you: for he shall not be able the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the
to deliuer you out of mine hand. 30 Neither let seruants of the king of Asshur haue blasphemed
Hezekiah make you to trust in the Lord, saying, me. 7 Beholde, I will sende a blast vpon him,
The Lord will surely deliuer vs, and this citie shall and he shall heare a noyse, and returne to his
not be giuen ouer into the hand of the king of owne lande: and I will cause him to fall by
Asshur. 31 Hearken not vnto Hezekiah: for thus the sworde in his owne lande. 8 So Rabshakeh
saith the king of Asshur, Make appointment with returned, and founde the King of Asshur fighting
me, and come out to me, that euery man may eate against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
of his owne vine, and euery man of his owne figge departed from Lachish. He heard also men say
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tree, and drinke euery man of the water of his of Tirhakah King of Ethiopia, Beholde, he is come
owne well, 32 Till I come, and bring you to a land out to fight against thee: he therefore departed
like your owne land, euen a land of wheate and and sent other messengers vnto Hezekiah, say-
wine, a land of bread and vineyardes, a lande of ing, 10 Thus shall ye speake to Hezekiah King of
oliues oyle, and hony, that ye may liue and not Iudah, and say, Let not thy God deceiue thee in
die: and obey not Hezekiah, for he deceiueth you, whome thou trustest, saying, Ierusalem shall not
saying, The Lord will deliuer vs. 33 Hath any of be deliuered into the hande of the King of Asshur.
the gods of the nations deliuered his lande out of 11 Beholde, thou hast heard what the Kings of
the hand of the King of Asshur? 34 Where is the Asshur haue done to all landes, how they haue
god of Hamah, and of Arpad? where is the god destroyed them: and shalt thou be deliuered?
of Sepharuaim, Hena and Iuah? how haue they 12 Haue the gods of the heathen deliuered them
deliuered Samaria out of mine hand? 35 Who are which my fathers haue destroyed? as Gozan, and
they among all the gods of the nations, that haue Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden,
deliuered their lande out of mine hand, that the which were in Thelasar? 13 Where is the King of
Lord should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people helde their peace, and answered Hamath, and the King of Arpad, and the King of
not him a worde: for the Kings commandement the citie of Shepharuaim, Hena and Iuah? 14 So
was, saying, Answere ye him not. 37 Then Eliakim, Hezekiah receiued the letter of the hande of the
messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went vp
the sonne of Hilkiah which was steward of the
house, and Shebnah the chanceller, and Ioah the into the house of the Lord, and Hezekiah spread
sonne of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah it before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before
with their clothes rent, and tolde him the wordes the Lord, and saide, O Lord God of Israel, which
of Rabshakeh. dwellest betweene the Cherubims, thou art very
God alone ouer all the kingdomes of the earth:
19 thouhastmadetheheauenandtheearth. 16 Lord,
1 And when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent bow downe thine eare, and heare: Lord open
his clothes and put on sackecloth, and came into thine eyes and behold, and heare the wordes
the house of the Lord, And sent Eliakim which of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the
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was the stewarde of the house, and Shebnah the liuing God. 17 Trueth it is, Lord, that the Kings
chanceller, and the Elders of the Priestes clothed of Asshur haue destroyed the nations and their
in sackecloth to Isaiah the Prophet the sonne