الإصحَاحُ
السَّادِسُ وَالثَّلاَثُونَ

 

Chapter
36

1
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib
king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took
them.

2
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king
Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller’s field.

3
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.

4
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great
king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

5
I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for
war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

6
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man
lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to
all that trust in him.

7
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high
places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem,
Ye shall worship before this altar?

8
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and
I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders
upon them.

9
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my
master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10
And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD
said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto
thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us
in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

12
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak
these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they
may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

13
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and
said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

14
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to
deliver you.

15
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely
deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

16
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement
with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and
every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own
cistern;

17
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and
wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any
of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

19
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and
have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land
out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

21
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s
commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

22
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their
clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.