Verse 8
Isaiah 36:8
Literal Standard Version
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And now, please negotiate with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give two thousand horses to you, if you are able to put riders on them for yourself.
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
And it comes to pass, in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Asshur has come u...
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And the king of Asshur sends Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a heavy for...
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and Eliakim son of Hilkiah goes forth to him, who is over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah...
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And Rabshakeh says to them, “Now say to Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur: What...
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5
I have said, Only a word of the lips! Counsel and might are for battle. Now, on whom have you truste...
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6
Behold, you have trusted on the staff of this broken reed—on Egypt—which a man leans on, and it has...
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7
And do you say to me, We have trusted in our God (Elohim) YHWH? Is it not He whose high places and w...
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8
And now, please negotiate with my lord the king of Asshur, and I give two thousand horses to you, if...
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And how do you turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, and trust...
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10
And now, without YHWH have I come up against this land to destroy it? YHWH said to me, Go up to this...
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11
And Eliakim says—and Shebna and Joah—to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we...
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12
And Rabshakeh says, “To your lord, and to you, has my lord sent me to speak these words? Is it not f...
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13
And Rabshakeh stands and calls with a great voice in Jewish, and says, “Hear the words of the great...
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14
thus said the king: Do not let Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you;
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15
and do not let Hezekiah make you trust to YHWH, saying, YHWH certainly delivers us, this city is not...
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16
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur: Make a blessing with me, and come out t...
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17
until my coming in, and I have taken you to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a l...
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lest Hezekiah persuades you, saying, YHWH delivers us. Have the gods of the nations each delivered h...
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19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, that they have delivered S...
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20
Who among all the gods of these lands are they who have delivered their land out of my hand, that YH...
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21
And they keep silent, and have not answered him a word, for a command of the king is, saying, “Do no...
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And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who is over the house, comes in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of...
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