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Isaiah 36:17

Verse 17 of 22. The 36th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

13Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

14The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.

15Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’

16Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

20Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.