Isaiah 36 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Sennacherib Invades Judah

(2Ki 18:13–37; 2Ch 32:1–19 )

Now in the fourteenth^H702^H6240 year^H8141 of King^H4428 Hezekiah^H2396, Sennacherib^H5576 king^H4428 of Assyria^H804 marched^H5927 against^H5921 all^H3605 the fortified^H1219 cities^H5892 of Judah^H3063 and seized^H8610 them.

Isa 36:2

Isa 36:2And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the road to the [fn]fuller’s field.

Isa 36:3

Isa 36:3Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to him.

Isa 36:4

And Rabshakeh^H7262 said^H559 to them, “Say^H559 now^H4994 to Hezekiah^H2396, ‘This^H3541 is^H3541 what^H3541 the great^H1419 king^H4428, the king^H4428 of Assyria^H804 says^H559: “What^H4100 is this^H2088 confidence^H986 that you have^H982?

Isa 36:5

Isa 36:5“I say, ‘Your plan and strength for the war are only [fn]empty words.’ Now on whom have you relied, that you have revolted against me?

Isa 36:6

Isa 36:6“Behold, you have relied on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his [fn]hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Isa 36:7

Isa 36:7“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not 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’?

Isa 36:8

Isa 36:8“Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

Isa 36:9

Isa 36:9“How then can you [fn]drive back even one [fn]official of the least of my master’s servants and [fn]rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Isa 36:10

Isa 36:10“And have I now come up [fn]without the LORD’S approval against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”

Isa 36:11

Then Eliakim^H471, Shebna^H7644, and Joah^H3098 said^H559 to Rabshakeh^H7262, “Please^H4994 speak^H1696 to your servants^H5650 in Aramaic^H762, for we [fn]understand^H8085 it; and do not speak^H1696 to us in [fn]Judean^H3066 [fn]so that the people^H5971 who^H834 are on the wall^H2346 hear^H241 you.”

Isa 36:12

Isa 36:12But 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, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Isa 36:13

Then Rabshakeh^H7262 stood^H5975 and called^H7121 out^H7121 with a loud^H1419 voice^H6963 in Judean^H3066 and said^H559, “Hear^H8085 the words^H1697 of the great^H1419 king^H4428, the king^H4428 of Assyria^H804!

Isa 36:14

Isa 36:14“This is what the king says: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to save you;

Isa 36:15

Isa 36:15and do not let Hezekiah lead you to rely on the LORD, saying, “The LORD will certainly save us. This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria!”

Isa 36:16

Isa 36:16‘Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘[fn]Surrender to me and come out to me, and eat, each one, of his vine and each of his fig tree, and each drink of the waters of his own cistern,

Isa 36:17

Isa 36:17until 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.

Isa 36:18

Isa 36:18‘Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you, saying, “The LORD will save us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations saved his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isa 36:19

Isa 36:19‘Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And when have they saved Samaria from my hand?

Isa 36:20

Isa 36:20‘Who among all the gods of these lands have saved their land from my hand, that the LORD would save Jerusalem from my hand?’”

Isa 36:21

But they were^H2790 silent^H2790 and did not answer^H6030 him so much as a word^H1697; for the king’s^H4428 command^H4687 was, “Do not answer^H6030 him.”

Isa 36:22

Isa 36:22Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.

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NASB20 Footnotes

I.e., launderer’s

Lit a word of lips

Lit palm

Lit turn away the face of

(36:9)

Or governor

(36:9)

Lit rely on for yourself

(36:10)

Lit without the LORD

(36:11)

Lit hear

(36:11)

I.e., Hebrew

(36:11)

Lit in the ears of...wall

(36:16)

Lit Make with me a blessing

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