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OET-RV by cross-referenced section 2KI 18:13

2KI 18:13–18:37 ©

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Sanheriv invades Yehudah

2Ki 18:13–37

2Ch 32:1–19

Isa 36:1–22

18:13 Sanheriv invades Yehudah

(2 Chr. 32:1-19, Isa 36:1-22)

13In the fourteenth year of King Hizkiyyah’s reign, Assyrian King Sanheriv attacked all the fortified cities in Yehudah and captured them. 14So King Hizkiyyah of Yehudah sent messengers to the Assyrian king at Lakish, saying, “I apologise for my mistake. Stop attacking me and I’ll give you whatever you demand of us.” Then the Assyrian king demanded a tribute of ten tonnes of gold and ten tonnes of silver. 15So Hizkiyyah gave him all the silver out of the temple and from the palace treasuries. 16He cut the doors off Yahweh’s temple and the pillars that he’d overlaid gold onto, and gave them to the Assyrian king.

17However, the Assyrian king still sent his general and some of his top officials from Lakish to King Hezekiah in Yerushalem. They arrived at Yerushalem with a large army and camped by the aquifer supplying the upper pool that was near the field where the people washed their clothes. 18They called out to the king, and Hilkiyyah’s son Elyakim who was the palace manager, and the scribe Shebna, and Asaf’s son Yoah the secretary, went out to them.

19Then the top Assyrian commander said to them, “Now, tell Hizkiyyah that the great Assyrian king asks him who he think’s he’s trusting in. 20He claims to be powerful enough to fight us. Who is he trusting to help you all that gives you confidence to rebel against us? 21Listen, your king’s trusting in a broken stick to lean on which will just splinter and pierce his hand. That’s what King Far-oh of Egypt is like to everyone who puts their trust in him. 22Ah, but he might tell me that he’s trusting in your god Yahweh to help you all. If so, I’d ask him if he isn’t the one whose hilltop shrines King Hizkiyyah demolished when he told you people in Yerushalem and all Yehudah that you have to worship at the altar there?

23So now ask your king if he’ll make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria: He’ll give you two thousand horses, on the condition that you can supply two thousand horsemen who can ride them. 24If you can’t do that, how could you all possibly repel even one of our army units? Haha, but of course you trust in Egypt to supply chariots and horsemen. 25Do you think that we have come here to destroy this place without Yahweh’s permission? No, no, it was Yahweh himself who told us to attack and destroy you.”

26But Elyakim and Shebna and Yoah asked the Assyrian commander, “Please speak Aramaic to your servants because we understand it. Don’t speak our language because our people on the nearby city wall will be able to understand it.”

27Ha ha, do you think my master sent this message just to you three and your king?” he replied. “No, don’t you think that this message is also for the hungry people sitting on the wall who’ll soon have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine along with you?”

28Then he stood up and called out loudly in Hebrew, “Everyone listen to what the great king from Assyria says: 29He’s warning you all not to let Hizkiyyah deceive you, because he unable to save you all from our army. 30And don’t let him force you all to trust in Yahweh thinking that we won’t capture your city and that Yahweh will somehow rescue you all. 31Don’t listen to Hizkiyyah because the Assyrian king is offering you all a chance to come out of the city and surrender. In exchange for saving me some trouble, you’ll be able to drink fresh water again and enjoy the fruit off your own trees out here 32until he comes here. Then he’ll take you to another country like your own—with grain and wine, and bread and vineyards, olive oil and honey. That way you’ll live and not die of starvation. So don’t listen to Hizkiyyah when he misleads you saying that Yahweh will rescue you all.” 33Did the gods of any of the other countries rescue their people from the power of the Assyrian king? 34Where were the gods of Hamat and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sefarvayim, Hena, and Ivvah? Were they able to save Shomron from the king’s power? 35From all the other countries, which of their gods was able to save their people, that might give confidence that Yahweh might be able to rescue Yerushalem from the king’s power?”

36But the people on the wall listening remained silentthey didn’t say a word because the king had already ordered them not to answer the Assyrians. 37Then Hilkiyyah’s son Elyakim the palace manager, Shebna the scribe and Asaf’s son Yoah the secretary went back in the city to Hizkiyyah, tearing their clothes as they went, and they relayed the words of the chief commander to him.

32:1 The invasion of from-Asirya of Yehudah

(2 Kgs 18:13-37, Isa 36:1-22)

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16 17 18 19

36:1 Ingginalatan of Asirya the Yerushalem

(2 Kgs 18:13-27, 2 Chr. 32:1-19)

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16 17 18 19 20

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