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Text -- Isaiah 36:16-22 (NET)
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36:16 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 ,
36:17 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 .
36:18 Hezekiah is misleading you when he says , “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria ?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad ? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim ? Indeed , did any gods rescue Samaria from my power ?
36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power ? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power ?’”
36:21 They were silent and did not respond , for the king had ordered , “Don’t respond to him .”
36:22 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 in grief 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:
SENNACHERIB |
Shebna |
Hezekiah |
CHRONOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Rab-shakeh |
Assyria |
Diplomacy |
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY |
HEZEKIAH (2) |
ISAIAH, 8-9 |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Isaiah |
Rabmag |
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF |
Blasphemy |
GODS |
Joah |
Hilkiah |
Cistern |
Asaph |
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NET Notes: Isa 36:18 Heb “Have the gods of the nations rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The rhetorical question expects the answe...
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NET Notes: Isa 36:19 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: Isa 36:20 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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