Isaiah 36:22 - Prayer Tents

Isaiah 36

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

36In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.H702H6240H8141H4428H2396H5576H4428H804H5927H1219H5892H3063H86102Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field,H4428H804H7971H7262H3923H3389H4428H2396H3515H2426H5975H8585H5945H1295H4546H3526H77043Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.H3318H471H2518H1121H1004H7644H5608H3098H623H1121H21424The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah, "'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?H7262H559H559H2396H559H1419H4428H4428H804H986H9825You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?H559H8193H1697H6098H1369H4421H982H47756Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.H982H4938H7533H7070H4714H376H5564H935H3709H5344H6547H4428H4714H9827And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"—isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"?H559H982H3068H430H1116H4196H2396H5493H559H3063H3389H7812H6440H41968"'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!H6148H113H4428H804H5414H505H5483H3201H5414H73929How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?H7725H6440H259H6346H6996H113H5650H982H4714H7393H657110Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.'"H5927H1107H3068H776H7843H3068H559H5927H776H784311Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."H559H471H7644H3098H7262H1696H5650H762H8085H1696H3066H241H5971H234612But the commander replied, "Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?"H7262H559H113H7971H113H1696H1697H582H3427H2346H398H2716H6675H8354H4325H7272H789013Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!H7262H5975H7121H1419H6963H3066H559H8085H1697H1419H4428H4428H80414This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you!H559H4428H2396H5377H3201H533715Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'H2396H982H3068H559H3068H5337H5337H5892H5414H3027H4428H80416"Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,H8085H2396H559H4428H804H6213H1293H3318H398H376H1612H376H8384H8354H376H4325H95317until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.H935H3947H776H776H776H1715H8492H776H3899H375418"Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?H2396H5496H559H3068H5337H376H430H1471H5337H776H3027H4428H80419Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?H430H2574H774H430H5617H5337H8111H302720Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"H430H776H5337H776H3027H3068H5337H3389H302721But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, "Do not answer him."H2790H6030H1697H4428H4687H559H603022Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.H935H471H1121H2518H1004H7644H5608H3098H1121H623H2142H2396H899H7167H5046H1697H7262