The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

2 Kings 18:18 (KJV)

And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 18:19): ... New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]19 Then Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What is this confidence that you have?


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[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 18:20): ... New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]20 You say (but they are only empty words), ‘I have counsel and strength for the war.’ Now on whom do you rely, that you have rebelled against me?


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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 18:21 (NIV)
Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 18:22 (NIV)

But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 18:23 (NIV)

“‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 18:24): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]24 How then can you repulse one official of the least of my master’s servants, and rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?


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[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 18:25): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot]25 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”[/FONT]
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[Deade]

2 Kings 18:26 (NIV)

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 18:27 (NIV)

But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Kings 18:28 (KJV)
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 18:29 (KJV)

Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

 

[Deade]

2 Kings 18:30 (KJV)

Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Kings 18:31): ...New King James Version (NKJV)[/h]31 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 18:32 (NKJV)
until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death!
“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’

 

[Shamah]

2 Kings 18:33, ""Has any of the mighty ones of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur?"

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 18:34 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]Where [/FONT]are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

 

[Shamah]

2 Kings 18:35, "Who among all the mighty ones of the lands have delivered their land out of my hand, that יהוה should deliver Yerushalayim from my hand?"

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

2 Kings 18:36 (NKJV)

[FONT=&quot]But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.” [/FONT]

 

[Shamah]

2 Kings 18:37 And Elyaqim son of Ḥilqiyah, who was over the household, and Sheḇnah the scribe, and Yo’aḥ son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Ḥizqiyahu with their garments torn, and they reported to him the words of the Raḇshaqĕh."