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2 Kings 18:26-36

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26 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in 1Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
27 But Rabshakeh said to them, "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?"
28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in Judean, saying *, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
29 "Thus says the king, '2Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hand;
30 nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."
31 'Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, "Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat 3each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
32 until I come and take you away 4to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die." But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us."
33 '5Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 '6Where are the gods of Hamath and 7Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and 8Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
35 'Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their land from my hand, 9that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?' "
36 But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."
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2 Kings 18:26-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 18

This chapter begins with the good reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, the reformation he made in the kingdom, and the prosperity that attended him when Israel was carried captive, 2Ki 18:1-12 and gives an account of the siege of Jerusalem by the king of Assyria, and of the distress Hezekiah was in, and the hard measures he was obliged to submit unto, 2Ki 18:13-18 and of the reviling and blasphemous speech of Rabshakeh, one of the generals of the king of Assyria, urging the Jews to a revolt from their king, 2Ki 18:19-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

  • 1. Ezra 4:7; Daniel 2:4
  • 2. 2 Chronicles 32:15
  • 3. 1 Kings 4:20, 25
  • 4. Deuteronomy 8:7-9; Deuteronomy 11:12
  • 5. 2 Kings 19:12; Isaiah 10:10, 11
  • 6. 2 Kings 19:13
  • 7. Isaiah 10:9
  • 8. 2 Kings 17:24
  • 9. Psalms 2:1-3; Psalms 59:7

Footnotes 7

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