1Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them.

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

2The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway.

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

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

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

4Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust?

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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 that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have 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, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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

7But if you tell me, 'We trust in the Lord our God,' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You 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, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on 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 can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your 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

10Have I come up now without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to 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 Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who 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, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine 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 called out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear 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 says the king, 'Do not let 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

15Do not 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."'

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

16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, '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;

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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, "The Lord will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from 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? Have they delivered Samaria from 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 the Lord 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 remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's commandment was, "Do not answer him."

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

22Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, 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