Isaiah 36
1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
וַיְהִי בְּאַרְבַּע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה לַמֶּלֶךְ חִזְקִיָּהוּ עָלָה סַנְחֵרִיב מֶלֶךְ־אַשּׁוּר עַל כָּל־עָרֵי יְהוּדָה הַבְּצֻרֹות וַיִּתְפְּשֵׂם׃ (4523)
See also: 2 Chronicles 32:1, 2 Kings 18:13, 2 Kings 18:17, 2 Chronicles 32:32, Isaiah 10:28-32, 2 Chronicles 12:4, Nehemiah 9:32, Isaiah 1:7-8, Isaiah 7:17, Isaiah 8:7-8, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 19:17, Isaiah 22:8, Isaiah 33:7-8, Isaiah 33:8, Isaiah 42:22, Jeremiah 50:17, Hosea 1:7, Matthew 1:9, Isaiah 52:4
2And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
וַיִּשְׁלַח מֶלֶךְ־אַשּׁוּר ׀ אֶת־רַב־שָׁקֵה מִלָּכִישׁ יְרוּשָׁלְַמָה אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ חִזְקִיָּהוּ בְּחֵיל כָּבֵד וַיַּעֲמֹד בִּתְעָלַת הַבְּרֵכָה הָעֶלְיֹונָה בִּמְסִלַּת שְׂדֵה כֹובֵס׃ (5657)
See also: 2 Chronicles 32:9-23, Isaiah 7:3, 2 Kings 18:17-37, 2 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 20:2, Isaiah 22:9-11
3Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
וַיֵּצֵא אֵלָיו אֶלְיָקִים בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּהוּ אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַבָּיִת וְשֶׁבְנָא הַסֹּפֵר וְיֹואָח בֶּן־אָסָף הַמַּזְכִּיר׃ (2784)
See also: Isaiah 22:20, Isaiah 22:15, Isaiah 36:22, 2 Samuel 8:16-17, 2 Samuel 20:24-25, 2 Kings 18:18, Isaiah 33:7, Isaiah 37:2
4And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם רַב־שָׁקֵה אִמְרוּ־נָא אֶל־חִזְקִיָּהוּ כֹּה־אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ הַגָּדֹול מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר מָה הַבִּטָּחֹון הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר בָּטָחְתָּ׃ (3483)
See also: 2 Kings 18:19, 2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 19:10, 2 Chronicles 32:7-10, 2 Chronicles 32:10, 2 Chronicles 32:14-16, Psalms 42:3, Psalms 42:10, Psalms 71:10-11, Proverbs 16:18, Isaiah 10:8-14, Isaiah 36:13, Isaiah 37:10, Isaiah 37:11-15, Isaiah 37:29, Jeremiah 48:14, Ezekiel 29:16, Ezekiel 31:3-18, Ezekiel 31:5, Ezekiel 31:8
5I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
אָמַרְתִּי אַךְ־דְּבַר־שְׂפָתַיִם עֵצָה וּגְבוּרָה לַמִּלְחָמָה עַתָּה עַל־מִי בָטַחְתָּ כִּי מָרַדְתָּ בִּי׃ (3978)
See also: 2 Kings 18:7, 2 Kings 24:1, Nehemiah 2:19-20, Proverbs 21:30-31, Proverbs 24:5-6, Jeremiah 52:3, Ezekiel 17:15
6Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
הִנֵּה בָטַחְתָּ עַל־מִשְׁעֶנֶת הַקָּנֶה הָרָצוּץ הַזֶּה עַל־מִצְרַיִם אֲשֶׁר יִסָּמֵךְ אִישׁ עָלָיו וּבָא בְכַפֹּו וּנְקָבָהּ כֵּן פַּרְעֹה מֶלֶךְ־מִצְרַיִם לְכָל־הַבֹּטְחִים עָלָיו׃ (4990)
See also: Jeremiah 17:5, Ezekiel 29:6-7, Isaiah 31:1, Proverbs 25:19, Isaiah 30:2, 2 Kings 18:21, Ezekiel 29:7, 2 Kings 17:4, Isaiah 20:5-6, Isaiah 30:1-7, Isaiah 31:3, Jeremiah 37:5-8, Ezekiel 17:17, 2 Kings 18:24, Isaiah 30:3, Isaiah 36:9, Ezekiel 17:15, Psalms 118:9, Song of Solomon 8:5
7But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
וְכִי־תֹאמַר אֵלַי אֶל־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ בָּטָחְנוּ הֲלֹוא־הוּא אֲשֶׁר הֵסִיר חִזְקִיָּהוּ אֶת־בָּמֹתָיו וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָיו וַיֹּאמֶר לִיהוּדָה וְלִירוּשָׁלִַם לִפְנֵי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ הַזֶּה תִּשְׁתַּחֲווּ׃ (5965)
See also: 2 Kings 18:4-5, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:10-11, Isaiah 36:18, 1 Corinthians 2:15, Deuteronomy 12:2-6, Deuteronomy 12:13-14, 2 Kings 18:19, 2 Kings 18:22, 1 Chronicles 5:20, 2 Chronicles 16:7-9, 2 Chronicles 30:14, 2 Chronicles 31:1, 2 Chronicles 32:7-8, 2 Chronicles 32:12, Psalms 22:4-5, Isaiah 36:15
8Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
וְעַתָּה הִתְעָרֶב נָא אֶת־אֲדֹנִי הַמֶּלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר וְאֶתְּנָה לְךָ אַלְפַּיִם סוּסִים אִם־תּוּכַל לָתֶת לְךָ רֹכְבִים עֲלֵיהֶם׃ (4930)
See also: Deuteronomy 17:16, 1 Samuel 17:40-43, Jeremiah 9:23, Genesis 49:18, Judges 9:29, 1 Kings 20:10, 1 Kings 20:18, 2 Kings 13:7, 2 Kings 14:14, 2 Kings 18:23, Nehemiah 4:2-5, Psalms 20:7-8, Psalms 80:6, Psalms 123:3-4, Isaiah 10:8, Hosea 14:3, 1 Samuel 17:36, Isaiah 10:13-14
9How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
וְאֵיךְ תָּשִׁיב אֵת פְּנֵי פַחַת אַחַד עַבְדֵי אֲדֹנִי הַקְטַנִּים וַתִּבְטַח לְךָ עַל־מִצְרַיִם לְרֶכֶב וּלְפָרָשִׁים׃ (4029)
See also: Isaiah 31:1, 1 Kings 10:28, Isaiah 31:3, 2 Kings 7:6, Isaiah 10:8, Deuteronomy 17:16, 2 Kings 18:24, 2 Chronicles 32:21, 2 Chronicles 33:11, Proverbs 21:31, Isaiah 20:5, Isaiah 23:8, Isaiah 30:2-5, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 30:16-17, Isaiah 36:6, Isaiah 37:24, Jeremiah 2:36
10And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
וְעַתָּה הֲמִבַּלְעֲדֵי יְהוָה עָלִיתִי עַל־הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת לְהַשְׁחִיתָהּ יְהוָה אָמַר אֵלַי עֲלֵה אֶל־הָאָרֶץ הַזֹּאת וְהַשְׁחִיתָהּ׃ (4642)
See also: 2 Kings 18:25, Isaiah 10:5-7, 1 Kings 13:18, 2 Chronicles 35:21, Isaiah 36:18, Genesis 19:13, Isaiah 37:28, Isaiah 37:29, Amos 3:6
11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
וַיֹּאמֶר אֶלְיָקִים וְשֶׁבְנָא וְיֹואָח אֶל־רַב־שָׁקֵה דַּבֶּר־נָא אֶל־עֲבָדֶיךָ אֲרָמִית כִּי שֹׁמְעִים אֲנָחְנוּ וְאַל־תְּדַבֵּר אֵלֵינוּ יְהוּדִית בְּאָזְנֵי הָעָם אֲשֶׁר עַל־הַחֹומָה׃ (5151)
12But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
וַיֹּאמֶר רַב־שָׁקֵה הַאֶל אֲדֹנֶיךָ וְאֵלֶיךָ שְׁלָחַנִי אֲדֹנִי לְדַבֵּר אֶת־הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה הֲלֹא עַל־הָאֲנָשִׁים הַיֹּשְׁבִים עַל־הַחֹומָה לֶאֱכֹל אֶת־ [חַרְאֵיהֶם כ] (צֹואָתָם ק) וְלִשְׁתֹּות אֶת־ [שֵׁינֵיהֶם כ] (מֵימֵי ק) (רַגְלֵיהֶם ק) עִמָּכֶם׃ (7666)
See also: Ezekiel 4:12, Leviticus 26:29, 2 Kings 18:27, Deuteronomy 28:53-57, 2 Kings 6:25-29, Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 9:20, Jeremiah 19:9, Lamentations 4:9-10, Ezekiel 4:16, 2 Chronicles 32:11, Psalms 80:6, Isaiah 37:25
13Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
וַיַּעֲמֹד רַב־שָׁקֵה וַיִּקְרָא בְקֹול־גָּדֹול יְהוּדִית וַיֹּאמֶר שִׁמְעוּ אֶת־דִּבְרֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ הַגָּדֹול מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר׃ (3700)
See also: 2 Chronicles 32:18, Jude 1:9, 2 Kings 18:28, 1 Samuel 17:8-11, Psalms 17:10-13, Psalms 73:8-9, Psalms 82:6-7, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 10:8-13, Isaiah 36:4, Isaiah 37:4, Ezekiel 31:3-10, Daniel 4:37, Hosea 8:10
14Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
כֹּה אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ אַל־יַשִּׁא לָכֶם חִזְקִיָּהוּ כִּי לֹא־יוּכַל לְהַצִּיל אֶתְכֶם׃ (1682)
See also: Psalms 25:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Revelation 13:5-6, 2 Kings 19:10-13, 2 Kings 19:22, 2 Chronicles 32:11, 2 Chronicles 32:13-19, Isaiah 37:10-13, Daniel 3:15-17, Daniel 6:20, Daniel 7:25
15Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
וְאַל־יַבְטַח אֶתְכֶם חִזְקִיָּהוּ אֶל־יְהוָה לֵאמֹר הַצֵּל יַצִּילֵנוּ יְהוָה לֹא תִנָּתֵן הָעִיר הַזֹּאת בְּיַד מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר׃ (3580)
See also: Isaiah 36:18, Isaiah 37:10, Isaiah 37:38, Psalms 4:2, Psalms 22:7-8, Psalms 71:9-11, Isaiah 36:7, Isaiah 37:23-24, Isaiah 37:24, Matthew 27:43, 1 Samuel 17:36
16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
אַל־תִּשְׁמְעוּ אֶל־חִזְקִיָּהוּ ס כִּי כֹה אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר עֲשׂוּ־אִתִּי בְרָכָה וּצְאוּ אֵלַי וְאִכְלוּ אִישׁ־גַּפְנֹו וְאִישׁ תְּאֵנָתֹו וּשְׁתוּ אִישׁ מֵי־בֹורֹו׃ (6104)
See also: Judges 3:15, 1 Kings 4:25, Zechariah 3:10, Micah 4:4, Genesis 32:20, Genesis 33:11, 1 Samuel 11:1, 1 Samuel 11:3, 1 Samuel 25:27, 2 Samuel 8:2, 2 Samuel 8:6, 1 Kings 4:20, 1 Kings 10:25, 2 Kings 5:15, 2 Kings 18:31, 2 Kings 24:12-16, Proverbs 5:15, 2 Corinthians 9:5
17Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
עַד־בֹּאִי וְלָקַחְתִּי אֶתְכֶם אֶל־אֶרֶץ כְּאַרְצְכֶם אֶרֶץ דָּגָן וְתִירֹושׁ אֶרֶץ לֶחֶם וּכְרָמִים׃ (3750)
See also: 2 Kings 18:32, Exodus 3:8, Deuteronomy 8:7-9, Deuteronomy 11:12, 2 Kings 17:6-23, 2 Kings 18:9-12, 2 Kings 24:11, Job 20:17, Proverbs 12:10
18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
פֶּן־יַסִּית אֶתְכֶם חִזְקִיָּהוּ לֵאמֹר יְהוָה יַצִּילֵנוּ הַהִצִּילוּ אֱלֹהֵי הַגֹּויִם אִישׁ אֶת־אַרְצֹו מִיַּד מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר׃ (3616)
See also: Daniel 3:15, 2 Chronicles 32:8, Isaiah 36:15, Isaiah 37:11, Isaiah 37:17-18, 2 Kings 18:33-35, 2 Kings 19:12-13, 2 Kings 19:17-18, 2 Chronicles 32:13-17, 2 Chronicles 32:15, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 92:5-7, Psalms 115:2-8, Psalms 135:5-6, Psalms 135:15-18, Isaiah 10:7, Isaiah 36:7, Isaiah 36:10, Isaiah 37:10, Isaiah 37:12-13
19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
אַיֵּה אֱלֹהֵי חֲמָת וְאַרְפָּד אַיֵּה אֱלֹהֵי סְפַרְוָיִם וְכִי־הִצִּילוּ אֶת־שֹׁמְרֹון מִיָּדִי׃ (2497)
See also: Isaiah 10:9-11, Jeremiah 49:23, Numbers 34:8, 2 Samuel 8:9, 2 Kings 17:5-7, 2 Kings 17:24, Isaiah 37:11-13, Jeremiah 16:20, Isaiah 10:11, Isaiah 37:13, Isaiah 44:17, 2 Kings 18:10-12
20Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
מִי בְּכָל־אֱלֹהֵי הָאֲרָצֹות הָאֵלֶּה אֲשֶׁר־הִצִּילוּ אֶת־אַרְצָם מִיָּדִי כִּי־יַצִּיל יְהוָה אֶת־יְרוּשָׁלִַם מִיָּדִי׃ (3576)
See also: Isaiah 50:2, 2 Chronicles 32:19, Psalms 50:21, Psalms 55:19, Isaiah 37:4, Exodus 5:2, Exodus 15:9, 1 Kings 20:23, 2 Kings 19:22-37, 2 Chronicles 32:15, Job 15:25-26, Psalms 73:9, Isaiah 37:18-19, Isaiah 37:23-29, Isaiah 45:16-17, Ezekiel 35:13, Daniel 3:15, Job 40:9-12, Isaiah 37:10, Isaiah 37:12
21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
וַיַּחֲרִישׁוּ וְלֹא־עָנוּ אֹתֹו דָּבָר כִּי־מִצְוַת הַמֶּלֶךְ הִיא לֵאמֹר לֹא תַעֲנֻהוּ׃ (2826)
See also: 1 Samuel 10:27, Proverbs 26:4, Ecclesiastes 3:7, Proverbs 23:9, Amos 5:13, 1 Samuel 25:12, 2 Kings 18:26, 2 Kings 18:37, Psalms 38:13-15, Psalms 39:1, Proverbs 9:7-8, Matthew 7:6
22Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
וַיָּבֹא אֶלְיָקִים בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּהוּ אֲשֶׁר־עַל־הַבַּיִת וְשֶׁבְנָא הַסֹּופֵר וְיֹואָח בֶּן־אָסָף הַמַּזְכִּיר אֶל־חִזְקִיָּהוּ קְרוּעֵי בְגָדִים וַיַּגִּידוּ לֹו אֵת דִּבְרֵי רַב־שָׁקֵה׃ (4566)
See also: Isaiah 22:20, Isaiah 36:3, Isaiah 28:19, Isaiah 33:7, Jeremiah 36:24, Mark 14:63, Genesis 37:34, 2 Kings 5:7, 2 Kings 18:18, Ezra 9:3, Proverbs 25:1, Isaiah 22:15, Isaiah 29:2, Isaiah 36:11, Isaiah 37:1-2, Jeremiah 18:13, Lamentations 2:10, Matthew 26:65