THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES Old Testament Prophecy - Angelfire

turn to the face of one local official? A Those who trust in the Egyptians for a horse and
rider are domestic servants. 10 Now did we go up against this country to wage war
against it without the Lord?"´" B
11 Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to him, "Speak to your servants in the Syriac
language, for we understand it, and do not speak to us in the Jewish language. Why do
you speak in the ears of the men who are on the wall?" 12 The Rabshakeh said to them,
"Has my lord sent me forth to speak these words to your lord or to you? Has he not
sent me forth to the men who sit on the wall, so that they may eat dung and drink
urine together with you?"
13 The Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language; he said,
"Listen to the words of the great king, the king of the Assyrians. 14 Thus says the king:
`Do not let Hezekiah deceive you with words, which will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do
not let Hezekiah say to you that God will deliver you and this city will not be delivered
up into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah.´ Thus says
the king of the Assyrians: `If you wish to be blessed, go out to me, and each of you will
eat from his vineyard and his fig trees, and you will drink water out of your cistern,
17 until I come and take you into a land like your land, a land of grain, wine, loaves of
bread, and vineyards. 18 Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, saying, "God will deliver you."
Did each of the gods of the nations deliver his own country out of the hand of the king
of the Assyrians? 19 Where is the god of Hamath and Arpad? Where is the god of the city
of Sepharvaim? Were they able to deliver Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who of the gods
of all these nations delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?´" 21 They were silent; no one answered him with a word,
because the king ordered no one to answer.
22 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the manager, and Shebna the scribe of the force, and Joah
son of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Hezekiah after they tore their tunics, and they
reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 37
1 It happened that, when king Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth,
and went up to the house of the Lord. 2 He sent forth Eliakim the manager, and Shebna
the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amos,
the prophet. 3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: `Today is a day of oppression,
reproach, rebuke, and wrath, for labor pain has come upon the woman who will give
birth, but she does not have strength to give birth. 4 May the Lord your God listen to the
words of the Rabshakeh, which the king of the Assyrians sent forth to reproach the
living God and to reproach by the words which the Lord your God heard. You will pray
to your Lord concerning these who are left.´" 5 The servants of the king came to Isaiah.
6 Isaiah said to them, "You will say this to your lord, `Thus says the Lord: "Do not be
afraid due to the words which you heard, by which the ambassadors of the king of the
A
one local official ScA ¦ the local officials VS* ¦ one of the local officials, the lesser
slaves of my lord
B
A ¦ + The Lord said to me, `Go up against this land and ruin it.´ VS