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Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah; Rabshakeh's Threat

Isaiah 37:1-13

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Chapter 37
1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to the house of the LORD. 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the house, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet. 3 They said to him, "This is what Hezekiah says: 'Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and reproach, for children have come to the birth canal, but there is no strength to give birth.'" 4 Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom his lord the king of Assyria has sent to taunt the living gods and rebuke with words which the LORD your God has heard, and you will bear prayer for the remnant that is found. 5 The servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 Isaiah said to them, "This is what you shall say to your lord: 'The LORD says: Do not fear the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.'" 7 Look, I am sending him a wind, and he will hear a report and return to his land, and I will fell him with the sword in his land. 8 The Rab-shakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had departed from Lachish. 9 He heard about Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has come out to fight against you." And he sent messengers to Hezekiah saying: 10 You shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "May your God, in whom you are trusting, not deceive you, saying, 'Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.'" 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction—and you, will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that my fathers destroyed—Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar—deliver them? 13 Where is the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?