12:018:036 But the people held their peace, and answered
him not a word:
for
the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him
not.
12:018:037 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which
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.
12:019:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah
heard it, that he rent
his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went
into
the
house of the lord.
12:019:002 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the
household, and Shebna
the
scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with
sackcloth,
to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
12:019:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah,
This day is a day
of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children
are
come
to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
12:019:004 It may be the lord thy God will hear
all the words of
Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach
the living God; and will reprove the words which the
lord
thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer
for the
remnant
that are left.
12:019:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
12:019:006 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye
say to your master,
Thus
saith the lord, Be not afraid of the words which
thou
hast
heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria
have
blasphemed me.
12:019:007 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and
he shall hear a
rumour,
and shall return to his own land; and I will cause
him
to
fall by the sword in his own land.
12:019:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria warring
against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed
from
Lachish.
12:019:009 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king
of Ethiopia, Behold, he
is
come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers
again
unto
Hezekiah, saying,
12:019:010 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of
Judah, saying, Let not
thy
God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem
shall
not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
12:019:011 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings
of Assyria have done to
all
lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou
be
delivered?
12:019:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered
them which my fathers
have
destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the
children
of Eden which were in Thelasar?


