Verse 8
Isaiah 36:8
World English Bible, British Edition
8
Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּה֙ הִתְעָ֣רֶב נָ֔א אֶת אֲדֹנִ֖/י הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וְ/אֶתְּנָ֤ה לְ/ךָ֙ אַלְפַּ֣יִם סוּסִ֔ים אִם תּוּכַ֕ל לָ֥/תֶת לְ/ךָ֖ רֹכְבִ֥ים עֲלֵי/הֶֽם
English Translation
And now, I would like to intervene with my lord the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses if you are able to put riders on them.
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Chapter 36 Context
1
Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria
attacked all of the fortifi...
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2
The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King
Hezekiah with a large army. He...
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3
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah, the so...
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4
Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the
king of Assyria, says, “What confid...
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5
I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words.
Now in whom do you trust, that...
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6
Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which
if a man leans on it, it w...
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7
But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God (Elohim),’ isn’t that he whose
high places and who...
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8
Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give you two thousa...
9
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my
master’s servants, and put you...
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10
Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it?
the LORD said to me, “Go up aga...
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11
Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak
to your servants in Aramaic, for we u...
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12
But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master
and to you, to speak these words, and...
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13
Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’
language, and said, “Hear the wo...
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14
The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be
able to deliver you.
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15
Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will
surely deliver us. This city w...
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16
Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your
peace with me, and come out to me...
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17
until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land
of grain and new wine, a land of...
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18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”
Have any of the gods of the n...
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19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
Have they delivered Samari...
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20
Who are they amongst all the gods of these countries that have delivered
their country out of my han...
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21
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the
king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer h...
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22
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the so...
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