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16 Don't listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: 'Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then everyone will eat from his own vine and from his own fig tree, and everyone will drink water from his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land—to a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.' 18 Be careful not to let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, |The LORD will save us.| Has any god of any nation ever delivered his country from the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sephar-vaim? Have they saved Samaria from me? 20 Who among all the gods of these countries has delivered their land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from me?'| 21 But the people remained silent and didn't respond to him with so much as a single word, because the king had commanded, |Don't answer him.| 22 Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, approached Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and let him know what the field commander had said. Isaiah 36:16-22, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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