Isaías 36:7

7 »Tal vez me digas: “¡Confiamos en el Señor
nuestro Dios!”; pero ¿no es él a quien Ezequías insultó? ¿Acaso no fue Ezequías quien derribó sus santuarios y altares, e hizo que todos en Judá y en Jerusalén adoraran solo en el altar que hay aquí, en Jerusalén?

Isaías 36:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 36:7

But if thou say to me, we trust in the Lord our God
In his promises, providence, power, and protection, and not in human counsels and strength; not in allies and auxiliaries, as Pharaoh king of Egypt; should this be replied, Rabshakeh has something to say to that; having shown the vanity of trusting in the above things, he now proceeds to beat them off of all trust in the Lord their God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken
away;
the question might easily be answered in the negative; no, he has not; the high places and altars which Hezekiah took away were the high places and altars of Heathen gods, of false deities, and not of the true God of Israel, and which was to his honour and glory; but Rabshakeh would make a crime of it, and, ignorantly supposing that these were the altars and high places of the God of Israel, would insinuate that the taking of these away must be displeasing to him, and consequently Hezekiah and his people could not hope for any protection from him, whom he had so highly affronted; but all this talk was the fruit of ignorance, as well as of malice: and said to Judah, and to Jerusalem, ye shall worship before this
altar?
the altar of the Lord, in the temple at Jerusalem, and before that only, confining their religious worship to one place, and their sacrifices to one altar; which was so far from being displeasing to God, as he would insinuate, that it was entirely agreeable to his will: and therefore there was no weight or strength in this kind of reasoning.

Isaías 36:7 In-Context

5 ¿Acaso crees que simples palabras pueden sustituir la fuerza y la capacidad militar? ¿Con quién cuentas para haberte rebelado contra mí?

6 ¿Con Egipto? Si te apoyas en Egipto, será como una caña que se quiebra bajo tu peso y te atraviesa la mano. ¡El faraón, rey de Egipto, no es nada confiable!

7 »Tal vez me digas: “¡Confiamos en el Señor
nuestro Dios!”; pero ¿no es él a quien Ezequías insultó? ¿Acaso no fue Ezequías quien derribó sus santuarios y altares, e hizo que todos en Judá y en Jerusalén adoraran solo en el altar que hay aquí, en Jerusalén?

8 »¡Se me ocurre una idea! Llega a un acuerdo con mi amo, el rey de Asiria. Yo te daré dos mil caballos, ¡si es que puedes encontrar esa cantidad de hombres para que los monten!

9 Con tu pequeño ejército, ¿cómo se te ocurre desafiar siquiera al contingente más débil de las tropas de mi amo, aunque contaras con la ayuda de los carros de guerra y sus conductores de Egipto?