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Text -- 2 Kings 18:30-37 (NET)
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18:30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says , “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria .”
18:31 Don’t listen to Hezekiah !’ For this is what the king of Assyria says , ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern ,
18:32 until I come and take you to a land just like your own– a land of grain and new wine , a land of bread and vineyards , a land of olive trees and honey . Then you will live and not die . Don’t listen to Hezekiah , for he is misleading you when he says , “The Lord will rescue us.”
18:33 Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria ?
18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad ? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim , Hena , and Ivvah ? Indeed , did any gods rescue Samaria from my power ?
18:35 Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power ? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power ?’”
18:36 The people were silent and did not respond , for the king had ordered , “Don’t respond to him .”
18:37 Eliakim son of Hilkiah , the palace supervisor , accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph , the secretary , went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
RABSHAKEH |
Shebna |
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF |
Seacherib |
Scribes |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
Diplomacy |
KINGS, BOOKS OF |
Rabmag |
Isaiah |
Hypocrisy |
Israel |
HEZEKIAH (2) |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Jerusalem |
Assyria |
Rab-shakeh |
Temptation |
War |
Hilkiah |
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NET Notes: 2Ki 18:33 Heb “Have the gods of the nations really rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The infinitive absolute lends emph...
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NET Notes: 2Ki 18:34 Heb “that they rescued Samaria from my hand?” But this gives the impression that the gods of Sepharvaim were responsible for protecting Sa...
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NET Notes: 2Ki 18:35 Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyr...
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