Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2Ch 32:12Ki 18:132Ki 18:17Isa 10:28-32Isa 1:7-8Isa 33:7-8Isa 7:17Isa 8:7-8 The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. 2Ch 32:9-23Isa 7:32Ki 18:17-37Isa 22:9-11 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him. 2Sa 20:24-252Sa 8:16-17Isa 22:15-21
Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust? 2Ki 18:19-372Ch 32:14-162Ch 32:7-102Ki 18:52Ki 19:10Act 12:22-23Ezk 31:3-18Isa 10:8-14 I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? 2Ki 18:72Ki 24:1Ezk 17:15Jer 52:3Neh 2:19-20Pro 21:30-31Pro 24:5-6 Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. Ezk 29:6-72Ki 18:212Ki 17:4Isa 20:5-6Isa 30:1-7Isa 31:3Jer 37:5-8 But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” 2Ki 18:4-51Co 2:15Psa 42:10-11Psa 42:51Ch 5:202Ch 16:7-92Ch 30:142Ch 31:1 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 1Sa 17:40-431Ki 20:101Ki 20:182Ki 14:142Ki 18:23Neh 4:2-5Psa 123:3-4Psa 20:7-8 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? Isa 10:82Ki 18:24Deu 17:16Isa 20:5Isa 30:16-17Isa 30:2-5Isa 30:7Isa 31:3 Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’” 2Ki 18:25Isa 10:5-71Ki 13:182Ch 35:21Amo 3:6Isa 37:28
Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” Ezr 4:7Dan 2:42Ki 18:26-27
But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?” 2Ki 18:27Lev 26:292Ki 6:25-29Deu 28:53-57Ezk 4:16Isa 9:20Jer 19:9Lam 4:9-10 Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 2Ch 32:181Sa 17:8-112Ki 18:28-32Dan 4:37Ezk 31:3-10Isa 10:8-13Isa 36:4Isa 8:7 The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. 2Th 2:4Rev 13:5-62Ch 32:112Ch 32:13-192Ki 19:10-132Ki 19:22Dan 3:15-17Dan 6:20 Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’ Isa 36:7Isa 37:10Isa 37:23-24Mat 27:43Psa 22:7-8Psa 4:2Psa 71:9-11 Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 1Ki 4:25Zec 3:10Mic 4:41Ki 4:201Sa 11:31Sa 25:272Co 9:52Ki 18:31 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 2Ki 18:322Ki 17:6-232Ki 18:9-122Ki 24:11Deu 11:12Deu 8:7-9Exo 3:8Job 20:17 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? Isa 36:15Isa 37:17-182Ch 32:13-172Ki 18:33-352Ki 19:12-132Ki 19:17-18Dan 3:15Hab 2:19-20 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? Isa 10:9-11Jer 49:232Ki 17:242Ki 17:5-72Sa 8:9Isa 37:11-13Num 34:82Ki 18:10-12 Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’” 2Ch 32:19Psa 50:211Ki 20:232Ch 32:152Ki 19:22-37Dan 3:15Exo 5:2Isa 37:18-19
But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.” Pro 26:42Ki 18:262Ki 18:37Amo 5:13Mat 7:6Pro 9:7-8Psa 38:13-15Psa 39:1
Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. Isa 36:3Isa 33:72Ki 5:7Ezr 9:3Isa 36:11Isa 37:1-2Mat 26:65