Isaiah 36:1-6

1 And it was done in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of Assyrians, ascended on all the strong cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with great power; and he stood at the water conduit of the higher cistern, in the way of the field of a fuller, or (a) tucker (and he stopped by the water conduit of the Upper Pool, on the way to the Fuller's Field).
3 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was on the house (who was over the king's household), went out to him, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the chancellor.
4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye to Hezekiah, The great king, the king of Assyrians, saith these things, What is the trust, in which thou trustest?
5 either by what counsel either strength disposest thou for to rebel? on whom hast thou trust, for thou hast gone away from me?
6 Lo! thou trustest on this broken staff of (a) reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leaneth, either resteth, it shall enter into his hand, and shall pierce it; so doeth Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all men that trust in him.
Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only.