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10 And now, was it without YHWH that I came up against this land to destroy it? YHWH has said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it!’” 11 And Eliakim said and Shebna and Joah to the Rabshakeh, “Speak, please, to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the ears of the people who are on the wall.” 12 And the Rabshakeh said “Was it to your lord and to you that my master sent me to speak these words? Was it not to the men sitting on the wall who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you??” 13 And the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a great voice in Hebrew, and he said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you?, for he will not be able to deliver you?. 15 And do not let Hezekiah make you? trust in YHWH, saying, ‘YHWH will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’ 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah! For thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me and come out to me, and each man will eat from his own vine and each man from his fig tree, and each man will drink the waters of his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you? to a land like your? own land—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Lest Hezekiah should incite you? saying, ‘YHWH will surely deliver us.’ Have the gods of the nations delivered every man of his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 20 Who among all the gods of these lands are they who have delivered their lands from my hand, that YHWH might deliver Jerusalem from my hand?” 21 And they were quiet, and they did not answer him a word; for it was the command of the king saying, “Do not answer him.” 22 And came Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and they declared to him the words of the Rabshakeh. Isaiah 36:10-22, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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