even on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand,
and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who
trust on him.
018:022 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh 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 in Jerusalem?
018:023 Now therefore, Please give pledges 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.
018:024 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen?
018:025 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it?
Yahweh said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah,
to Rabshakeh, Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand it: and don't speak with us in the Jews'
language, in the ears of the people who are on the wall.
018:027 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master,
and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men
who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink
their own water with you?
018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews'
language, and spoke, saying, Hear you the word of the great king,
the king of Assyria.
018:029 Thus says the king, Don't let Hezekiah deceive you;
for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
018:030 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will
surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into
the hand of the king of Assyria.
018:031 Don't listen to Hezekiah: for thus says the king
of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me;
and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree,
and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
018:032 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,
a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die:
and don't listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying,
Yahweh will deliver us.
018:033 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land
out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria
out of my hand?
018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have
delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should
deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word;
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