English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 36, verse 6 in Nlv Version

Isaiah 36 : 1 (NLV)

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the strong cities of Judah and took them.

Isaiah 36 : 2 (NLV)

The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a large army. And he stood by the ditch of the upper pool on the road of the Fuller's Field.

Isaiah 36 : 3 (NLV)

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was the head of the house, and Shebna the writer, and Joah the son of Asaph, who wrote down the things that happened, came out to him.

Isaiah 36 : 4 (NLV)

Rabshakeh said to them, "Tell Hezekiah, 'The great king, the king of Syria, says, "What is the reason for this hope you have?

Isaiah 36 : 5 (NLV)

Do you think that empty words are plans and strength for war? In whom do you trust, that you have turned against me?

Isaiah 36 : 6 (NLV)

See, you are trusting in Egypt, whose power is like a broken piece of grass. If a man rests against it, it will cut into his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 36 : 7 (NLV)

But if you tell me, 'We trust in the Lord our God,' is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar'?

Isaiah 36 : 8 (NLV)

So now come and make an agreement with my leader, the king of Assyria. And I will give you 2,000 horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

Isaiah 36 : 9 (NLV)

How then can you turn away from one captain of the least of my king's servants, and trust in Egypt for war-wagons and horsemen?

Isaiah 36 : 10 (NLV)

Have I now come up to destroy the land against the Lord's will? The Lord said to me, 'Go up against this land, and destroy it.' " ' "

Isaiah 36 : 11 (NLV)

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Speak to your servants in the Aramaic language, for we understand it. Do not speak with us in the language of Judah so the people who are on the wall will hear."

Isaiah 36 : 12 (NLV)

But Rabshakeh said, "Has my king sent me only to speak to your leader and to you, and not to the men who sit on the wall? They will have to eat and drink their own body waste with you."

Isaiah 36 : 13 (NLV)

Then Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in the language of Judah, and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 36 : 14 (NLV)

The king says, 'Do not let Hezekiah lie to you. For he will not be able to bring you out of your trouble.

Isaiah 36 : 15 (NLV)

And do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, "For sure the Lord will bring us out of our trouble. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

Isaiah 36 : 16 (NLV)

'Do not listen to Hezekiah.' For the king of Assyria says, 'Make your peace with me and come out to me. Each one of you should eat of his own vine and fig tree, and drink the water of his own well,

Isaiah 36 : 17 (NLV)

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land. It is a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and grape-fields.

Isaiah 36 : 18 (NLV)

Be careful not to let Hezekiah lead you the wrong way, saying, "The Lord will bring us out of our trouble." Has any of the gods of the nations saved his land from the power of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 36 : 19 (NLV)

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? When have they taken Samaria out of my hand?

Isaiah 36 : 20 (NLV)

Who among all the gods of these lands have taken their land out of my hand? So why should the Lord save Jerusalem from my hand?' "

Isaiah 36 : 21 (NLV)

But they were quiet and did not answer him. For the king had told them, "Do not answer him."

Isaiah 36 : 22 (NLV)

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was the head of the house, and Shebna the writer, and Joah the son of Asaph, who wrote down the things that happened, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn. They told him the words of Rabshakeh.