36:1 In
the
fourteenth
year
of
King
Hezekiah,
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
came
up
against
all
the
fortified
cities
of
Judah
and
took
them.
36:2 And
the
king
of
Assyria
sent
the
Rabshakeh
from
Lachish
to
King
Hezekiah
at
Jerusalem,
with
a
great
army.
And
he
stood
by
the
conduit
of
the
upper
pool
on
the
highway
to
the
Washer's
Field.
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.
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
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
36:6 Behold,
you
are
trusting
in
Egypt,
that
broken
reed
of
a
staff,
which
will
pierce
the
hand
of
any
man
who
leans
on
it.
Such
is
Pharaoh
king
of
Egypt
to
all
who
trust
in
him.
36:7 But
if
you
say
to
me,
"We
trust
in
the
LORD
our
God,"
is
it
not
he
whose
high
places
and
altars
Hezekiah
has
removed,
saying
to
Judah
and
to
Jerusalem,
"You
shall
worship
before
this
altar"
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.
36:9 How
then
can
you
repulse
a
single
captain
among
the
least
of
my
master's
servants,
when
you
trust
in
Egypt
for
chariots
and
for
horsemen
36:10 Moreover,
is
it
without
the
LORD
that
I
have
come
up
against
this
land
to
destroy
it
The
LORD
said
to
me,
Go
up
against
this
land
and
destroy
it.'"
36:11 Then
Eliakim,
Shebna,
and
Joah
said
to
the
Rabshakeh,
"Please
speak
to
your
servants
in
Aramaic,
for
we
understand
it.
Do
not
speak
to
us
in
the
language
of
Judah
within
the
hearing
of
the
people
who
are
on
the
wall."
36:12 But
the
Rabshakeh
said,
"Has
my
master
sent
me
to
speak
these
words
to
your
master
and
to
you,
and
not
to
the
men
sitting
on
the
wall,
who
are
doomed
with
you
to
eat
their
own
dung
and
drink
their
own
urine"
36:13 Then
the
Rabshakeh
stood
and
called
out
in
a
loud
voice
in
the
language
of
Judah:
"Hear
the
words
of
the
great
king,
the
king
of
Assyria!
36:14 Thus
says
the
king:
'Do
not
let
Hezekiah
deceive
you,
for
he
will
not
be
able
to
deliver
you.
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."
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,
36:17 until
I
come
and
take
you
away
to
a
land
like
your
own
land,
a
land
of
grain
and
wine,
a
land
of
bread
and
vineyards.
36:18 Beware
lest
Hezekiah
mislead
you
by
saying,
"The
LORD
will
deliver
us."
Has
any
of
the
gods
of
the
nations
delivered
his
land
out
of
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria
36:19 Where
are
the
gods
of
Hamath
and
Arpad
Where
are
the
gods
of
Sepharvaim
Have
they
delivered
Samaria
out
of
my
hand
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'"
36:21 But
they
were
silent
and
answered
him
not
a
word,
for
the
king's
command
was,
"Do
not
answer
him."
36:22 Then
Eliakim
the
son
of
Hilkiah,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebna
the
secretary,
and
Joah
the
son
of
Asaph,
the
recorder,
came
to
Hezekiah
with
their
clothes
torn,
and
told
him
the
words
of
the
Rabshakeh.