Isaiah 36:1-6 (New International Version)

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Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

36:1-22pp -- 2Ki 18:13,17-37; 2Ch 32:9-19

1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's¹ reign, Sennacherib² king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.³ 2 Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish⁴ to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field,⁵ 3 Eliakim⁶ son of Hilkiah the palace administrator,⁷ Shebna⁸ the secretary,⁹ and Joah¹⁰ son of Asaph the recorder¹¹ went out to him. 4 The 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? 5 You say you have strategy and military strength--but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel¹² against me? 6 Look now, you are depending¹³ on Egypt,¹⁴¹⁵ that splintered reed¹⁶ 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.

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