1Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

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2 Chronicles 32:1, 2 Chronicles 32:1, 2 Kings 18:13, 2 Kings 18:13, Isaiah 10:28

2And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.

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Isaiah 7:3, 2 Chronicles 32:9, 2 Chronicles 32:23, Isaiah 7:3, 2 Chronicles 32:9

3Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

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2 Samuel 8:16, 2 Samuel 8:17, 2 Samuel 20:24, 2 Samuel 20:25, Isaiah 22:15

4And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

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2 Kings 18:19, 2 Kings 18:37, 2 Kings 18:19, 2 Kings 18:37, Psalms 42:3

5I say, thy counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?

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2 Kings 18:7, 2 Kings 18:7, 2 Kings 24:1, Jeremiah 52:3, Proverbs 24:5

6Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him.

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Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7, Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7, Isaiah 20:5

7But if thou say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

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2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 18:5, Psalms 42:10

8Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

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1 Samuel 17:40, 1 Samuel 17:43, 1 Samuel 17:40, 1 Samuel 17:43, Isaiah 10:13

9How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 10:8, 2 Kings 18:24, Proverbs 21:31, Isaiah 30:7

10And am I now come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

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2 Kings 18:25, 2 Kings 18:25, 1 Kings 13:18, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:7

11Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

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Ezra 4:7, Ezra 4:7, Daniel 2:4, Daniel 2:4, 2 Kings 18:26

12But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

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2 Kings 18:27, 2 Kings 18:27, Deuteronomy 28:53, Deuteronomy 28:57, 2 Kings 6:25

13Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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2 Chronicles 32:18, 2 Chronicles 32:18, Ezekiel 31:3, Ezekiel 31:10, Psalms 17:10

14Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you:

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Daniel 6:20, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 19:13, Daniel 7:25

15neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:8, Matthew 27:43, Psalms 71:9, Psalms 71:11

16Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

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Zechariah 3:10, 1 Kings 4:25, Zechariah 3:10, 1 Kings 4:25, Micah 4:4

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.

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2 Kings 18:32, 2 Kings 18:32, Job 20:17, Exodus 3:8, 2 Kings 18:9

18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Isaiah 37:17, Isaiah 37:18, Isaiah 36:15, Isaiah 37:17, Isaiah 37:18

19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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Jeremiah 49:23, Jeremiah 49:23, Isaiah 10:9, Isaiah 10:11, Isaiah 10:9

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

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2 Chronicles 32:19, 2 Chronicles 32:19, Job 15:25, Job 15:26, Daniel 3:15

21But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:4, Matthew 7:6, Amos 5:13, Psalms 39:1

22Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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Isaiah 36:3, Isaiah 36:3, Isaiah 33:7, Isaiah 33:7, Isaiah 37:1