Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to the king Hezekiah with a great army. And he took his stand by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

[*](7. ‘burning ’ Some render ‘hot ’; others, ‘mirage.’ Only here and xlix. 10.)[*](8. Or, ‘even fools....)[*](2. or, ‘ ’ as being a—apparently=chief butler, in Hebrew: but prob. representing Assyrian word for chief staff officer.)
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3 And there went out to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder;

4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say, I pray, to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What trust is this wherewith thou trustest?

5 I say, It is only a word of -the lips, counsel and strength for war: now, in whom trustest thou, that thou rebellest against me?

6 Lo, thou trustest on this bruised reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh ’of Egypt to all that trust in him.

7 And if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath removed, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

8 And now, exchange pledges, I pray, with my lord the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able to set for thyself riders upon them.

9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one governor among the least of my ’s servants, and puttest thy trust in - Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10 And now is it without the LORD that I am come up against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.