12:018:023 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges
to my lord the king
of
Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses,
if
thou
be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
12:018:024 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?
12:018:025 Am I now come up without the lord
against this place to
destroy
it? The lord said to me, Go up against this
land, and
destroy
it.
12:018:026 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and
Shebna, and Joah,
unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the
Syrian
language; for we understand it: and talk not with
us in
the
Jews’ language in the ears of the people that
are on the
wall.
12:018:027 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master
sent me to thy
master,
and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent
me
to
the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their
own
dung,
and drink their own piss with you?
12:018:028 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud
voice in the Jews’
language,
and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king,
the
king of Assyria:
12:018:029 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive
you: for he
shall
not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
12:018:030 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in
the lord, saying, The
lord
will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be
delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria.
12:018:031 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
then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one
of
his
fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
cistern:
12:018:032 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, a
land
of
oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die:
and
hearken
not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying,
The
lord
will deliver us.
12:018:033 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered
at all his land
out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
12:018:034 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad?
where are the gods
of
Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria
out
of
mine hand?
12:018:035 Who are they among all the gods of the
countries, that have
delivered
their country out of mine hand, that the lord
should
deliver
Jerusalem out of mine hand?


