Isaias

17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own - land, a land of corn and new wine, a land, of bread and vine- yards:

18 Lest Hezekiah entice you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Have the gods of the nations delivered everyone his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods-of Hamath and Arpad? where the ’ gods of Sepharvaim? and verily they have delivered Samaria out ’ of my hand! .

20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have ’ delivered their land out of my hand? that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand!

21 But they ’held their peace, arid answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was thus, saying, Ye shall not answer ’ him. ’

22 And Eliakim came, the son of Hilkiah, that’was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and J-oah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, unto Hezekiah, with clothes rent, and told him the ’ words of Rabshakeh.

XXXVII. 1 And it came to pass, when the king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth. and went into the house of the Lord

2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the people, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son. of Amoz.

3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and chastisement, and contempt; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rab- shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his lord hath sent to reproach the living God, and will chastise the words which the Lord thy God hath heard; and thou wilt lift up prayer for the remnant that is found.

5 And the servants of the king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6 And- Isaiah said unto them, Thus- shall ye say unto your lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the young men of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ᾇ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall bear a message, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

8 And Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria waning against Libnah, for he had heard that he had broken up from Lachish.