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But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altarsHezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worshipbefore this altar in Jerusalem?
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Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousandhorses, if thou be able on thy part to setriders upon them.
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Then saidEliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh,Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
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But Rabshakehsaid unto them, Hath my mastersent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung*, and drink their own piss** with you?
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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD,saying, The LORD will surelydeliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oilolive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The LORD will deliver us.