The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

 

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Isaiah 36:1 (NIV)

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria
attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

 

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Isaiah 36:2 (NIV)

Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,

 

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isaiah 36:3

And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

 

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Isaiah 36:4

And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?

 

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Isaiah 36:5

Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?

 

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Isaiah 36:6 (CSB)

Look, you are relying on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone
who grabs it and leans on it. This is how Pharaoh king of Egypt is to all who rely on him.

 

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Isaiah 36:7 (CSB)

Suppose you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God.’ Isn’t he the one whose high places and altars
Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?

 

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Isaiah 36:8

Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them

 

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Isaiah 36:9 (CSB)

How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants?
How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

 

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Isaiah 36:10 (CSB)

Have I attacked this land to destroy it without the Lord’s approval?
The Lord said to me, ‘Attack this land and destroy it.’”

 

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Isaiah 36:11 (CSB)

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the royal spokesman, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew within earshot of the people who are on the wall.”

 

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Isaiah 36:12 (CSB)

But the royal spokesman replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

 

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Isaiah 36:13 (CSB)

Then the royal spokesman stood and called out loudly in Hebrew:

Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

 

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Isaiah 36:14 (CSB)

This is what the king says: “Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot rescue you.

 

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Isaiah 36:15

Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

 

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Isaiah 36:16

Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,

 

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Isaiah 36:17 (CSB)

until 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.

 

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Isaiah 36:18 (CSB)

Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will rescue us.’
Has any one of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

 

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Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?