2 Kings 18:24

24 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

2 Kings 18:24 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:24

(See Gill on 2 Kings 18:17)

2 Kings 18:24 In-Context

22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

23 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

24 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

25 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”