The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

Isaiah 36:20

Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 36:21 (CSB)

But they kept silent; they didn’t say anything, for the king’s command was, “Don’t answer him.”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 36:22 (CSB)

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the royal spokesman.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:1 (CSB)

When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth,
and went to the Lord’s temple.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:2 (CSB)

He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests,
who were covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:3 (CSB)


They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace. It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:4 (CSB)

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke him for the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:5

When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:6


Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:7 (CSB)

I am about to put a spirit in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land,
where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37:8 (NIV)

When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,
he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:9 (NIV)

Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:10 (NIV)

“Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:11

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:12

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:13 (NIV)

Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 37:14 (NIV)

Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:15

And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 37:16

“O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 37: 17 (NIV)

Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words
Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.