Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

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.

[*](15. ‘ safely deliver’ : verb repeated in Heb.)[*](16. ‘ agreement,’ lit. ‘ blessing’: freq. used in sense of a present.)[*](20. Or, ‘ how much less shall the LORD... i” (Ver. 19 ὸ is of course ironical, as translated).)

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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