Verse 8
Isaiah 36:8
Free Bible Version
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Why don't you accept a challenge from my master, the king of Assyria? He says, I'll give you two thousand horses, if you can find enough riders for 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
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In the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked and conquere...
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The king of Assyria sent his army general, along with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at...
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Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, the palace manager, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the record-...
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4
The Assyrian army general said to them, “Tell Hezekiah this is what the great king, the king of Assy...
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5
You say you have a strategy and are ready for war, but these are empty words. Who are you relying on...
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6
Now look! You're trusting in Egypt, a walking stick that's like a broken reed that will cut the hand...
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7
If you tell me, ‘We're trusting in the Lord our God (Elohim),’ well didn't Hezekiah remove his high...
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8
Why don't you accept a challenge from my master, the king of Assyria? He says, I'll give you two tho...
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How could you defeat even a single officer in charge of the weakest of my master's men when you're t...
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10
More than that—would I have come to attack this place without the Lord's encouragement? It was the L...
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11
Eliakim, Shebnah, and Joah, said to the army general, “Please speak to us, your servants, in Aramaic...
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12
But the army general replied, “Did my master only send me to say these things to your master and to...
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13
Then the army general shouted out in Hebrew, “Listen to this from the great king, the king of Assyri...
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14
This is what the king says: Don't let Hezekiah trick you! He can't save you!
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15
Don't believe Hezekiah when he tells you to trust in the Lord, saying, ‘I'm certain the Lord will sa...
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16
Don't listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king says: Make a peace treaty with me and surrender to m...
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17
I will come and take you to a land that's like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bre...
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18
But don't let Hezekiah trick you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have any of the gods of a...
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19
Where were the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sepharvaim? Were they able to save S...
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Which one of all the gods of these countries has saved their land from me? How then could the Lord s...
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21
But the people remained silent and didn't say anything, for Hezekiah had given the order, “Don't ans...
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Then Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, the palace manager, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the rec...
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