2 Kings 18:20

20 You think only a word of lips, '[I have] advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me?

2 Kings 18:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 18:20

(See Gill on 2 Kings 18:17)

2 Kings 18:20 In-Context

18 Then they called to the king, so Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who [was] over the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

19 Then the chief advisor said to them, "Please say to Hezekiah: 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What [is] this confidence that you trust?

20 You think only a word of lips, '[I have] advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me?

21 Now, look! You {rely} on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [when] a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So [is] Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him!

22 But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' [is] it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down [only] in Jerusalem?'