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Text -- Isaiah 36:1-13 (NET)
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Sennacherib Invades Judah
36:1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
36:2 The king of Assyria sent his chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem , along with a large army . The chief adviser stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.
36:3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah , the palace supervisor , accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph , the secretary , went out to meet him.
36:4 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah : ‘This is what the great king , the king of Assyria , says : “What is your source of confidence ?
36:5 Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk . In whom are you trusting , that you would dare to rebel against me?
36:6 Look , you must be trusting in Egypt , that splintered reed staff . If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!
36:7 Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God .’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem , ‘You must worship at this altar .’
36:8 Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria , and I will give you two thousand horses , provided you can find enough riders for them.
36:9 Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen .
36:10 Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’”
36:11 Eliakim , Shebna , and Joah said to the chief adviser , “Speak to your servants in Aramaic , for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall .”
36:12 But the chief adviser said , “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall , for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”
36:13 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect , “Listen to the message of the great king , the king of Assyria .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
SENNACHERIB |
Shebna |
Hezekiah |
Assyria |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
HEZEKIAH (2) |
ISAIAH, 8-9 |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF |
Rab-shakeh |
Isaiah |
Joah |
Eliakim |
RABSHAKEH |
Hebrew Language |
Siege |
Diplomacy |
LACHISH |
Fuller's Field |
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NET Notes: Isa 36:1 The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
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NET Notes: Isa 36:2 Heb “the field of the washer”; traditionally “the fuller’s field” (so KJV, ASV, NAB, NASB, NRSV).
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NET Notes: Isa 36:5 Heb “you say only a word of lips, counsel and might for battle.” Sennacherib’s message appears to be in broken Hebrew at this point....
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NET Notes: Isa 36:9 Heb “How can you turn back the face of an official [from among] the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and hors...
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NET Notes: Isa 36:10 In v. 10 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 7. He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commission...
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NET Notes: Isa 36:12 The chief adviser alludes to the horrible reality of siege warfare, when the starving people in the besieged city would resort to eating and drinking ...
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