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2 Các Vua 18
New Vietnamese Bible
2 Các Vua 18
New Vietnamese Bible
Ê-xê-chia Trị Vì Giu-đa
18 Năm thứ ba triều vua Ô-sê, con trai Ê-la, của Y-sơ-ra-ên, thì Ê-xê-chia, con trai vua A-cha của Giu-đa lên ngôi làm vua. 2 Vua được hai mươi lăm tuổi khi bắt đầu trị vì. Vua trị vì hai mươi chín năm tại Giê-ru-sa-lem. Thân mẫu của vua là bà A-bi, con gái của Xa-cha-ri. 3 Vua làm điều ngay lành trước mặt CHÚA như tổ phụ Đa-vít của vua đã làm. 4 Vua dẹp bỏ những nơi cao, đập vỡ các tượng thờ bằng đá, và đốn hạ những trụ thờ nữ thần A-sê-ra. Vua đập nát con rắn bằng đồng mà Môi-se đã làm. Vì cho đến lúc đó dân Y-sơ-ra-ên vẫn còn dâng hương cho con rắn bằng đồng ấy. Người ta gọi nó là Nê-hu-tan.
5 Vua tin cậy CHÚA là Đức Chúa Trời của Y-sơ-ra-ên. Trong số những vị vua của Giu-đa sau vua thì không ai được như thế, còn trong số các vị vua trước vua thì cũng chẳng ai được như vậy. 6 Vì vua bám chặt lấy CHÚA. Vua chẳng rời bỏ Ngài, nhưng gìn giữ những điều răn mà CHÚA đã truyền cho Môi-se. 7 CHÚA ở cùng vua; vua làm điều gì cũng được thành công. Vua nổi dậy chống lại vua A-si-ri và không chịu thần phục vua ấy nữa. 8 Vua tiến đánh dân Phi-li-tin đến tận Ga-xa và những vùng phụ cận, từ tháp canh cho đến thành trì kiên cố.
9 Năm thứ tư triều vua Ê-xê-chia, tức là năm thứ bảy triều vua Ô-sê, con trai Ê-la, của Y-sơ-ra-ên, vua Sanh-ma-na-se của A-si-ri đến tấn công Sa-ma-ri và bao vây thành ấy. 10 Cuối ba năm, vua ấy chiếm được thành. Năm thứ sáu triều vua Ê-xê-chia, tức là năm thứ chín triều vua Ô-sê của Y-sơ-ra-ên, Sa-ma-ri bị thất thủ. 11 Vua A-si-ri bắt dân Y-sơ-ra-ên đem lưu đày ở A-si-ri, cho họ định cư ở Ha-la bên bờ sông Cha-bo, thuộc xứ Gô-sen, và trong các thành của xứ Mê-đi. 12 Bởi vì họ không vâng theo tiếng CHÚA là Đức Chúa Trời của họ, nhưng vi phạm giao ước Ngài, tức là tất cả những điều Môi-se, tôi tớ của CHÚA, đã truyền ban. Họ không nghe và cũng chẳng thi hành.
San-chê-ríp Xâm Lăng Giu-đa
13 Năm thứ mười bốn triều vua Ê-xê-chia, vua San-chê-ríp của A-si-ri, đến tấn công các thành kiên cố của Giu-đa và chiếm lấy. 14 Vua Ê-xê-chia của Giu-đa sai sứ đến gặp vua của A-si-ri tại La-chi và tâu rằng: “Tôi có lỗi. Xin vua hãy lui binh. Vua muốn điều chi, tôi cũng chịu cả.” Vua của A-si-ri đòi vua Ê-xê-chia của Giu-đa phải nộp ba trăm ta-lâng bạc[a] và ba mươi ta-lâng vàng.[b] 15 Vua Ê-xê-chia lấy tất cả bạc trong đền thờ CHÚA và trong các kho tàng của hoàng cung mà nộp cho vua ấy.
16 Bấy giờ vua Ê-xê-chia phải gỡ vàng bọc trên những cánh cửa của đền thờ CHÚA, và vàng mà vua đã cẩn trên những khung cửa ấy, để đem nộp cho vua A-si-ri.
17 Nhưng vua A-si-ri lại sai Tạt-tan, Ráp-sa-ri, và Ráp-sa-kê,[c] cùng một đạo binh rất lớn từ La-chi đến với Ê-xê-chia tại Giê-ru-sa-lem. Họ tiến lên và đến Giê-ru-sa-lem. Khi tiến gần, họ đến và dừng lại tại đầu kênh dẫn nước của hồ trên, tức là chỗ con đường dẫn đến cánh đồng của thợ nện. 18 Rồi họ yêu cầu được hội kiến với vua. Ê-li-a-kim con trai Hinh-kia, quan tổng quản hoàng cung, Sép-na, quan bí thư, và Giô-a con trai A-sáp, quan quản lý văn khố, ra gặp họ.
19 Ráp-sa-kê nói với họ: “Hãy về bảo Ê-xê-chia: Đại đế ta là vua của A-si-ri có phán như vầy: Ngươi dựa vào gì mà tự tin như vậy? 20 Bộ ngươi tưởng rằng trong chiến tranh mà lời nói suông có thể thay thế được mưu lược và sức mạnh sao? Ngươi dựa vào gì mà ngươi dám chống lại ta? 21 Kìa, ngày nay ngươi dựa vào Ai-cập chăng. Đó là một cây sậy gãy. Ai dựa vào nó ắt sẽ bị nó đâm thủng bàn tay. Bất cứ kẻ nào dựa vào Pha-ra-ôn, vua của Ai-cập, sẽ bị như vậy. 22 Nhưng nếu ngươi bảo ta rằng: ‘Chúng tôi tin cậy vào CHÚA là Đức Chúa Trời của chúng tôi,’ thì há chẳng phải Ê-xê-chia đã dẹp bỏ các tế đàn của Ngài trên các nơi cao, rồi bảo dân Giu-đa và dân Giê-ru-sa-lem rằng: ‘Các ngươi chỉ thờ phượng Ngài ở bàn thờ tại Giê-ru-sa-lem mà thôi’ sao? 23 Bây giờ hãy đánh cuộc với chủ ta là vua A-si-ri đi. Ta sẽ cho các ngươi hai ngàn con ngựa, nếu các ngươi có đủ kỵ binh để cỡi. 24 Liệu các ngươi nhờ cậy vào các xe chiến mã và các kỵ binh của Ai-cập mà có thể chống cự nổi một tiểu tướng trong đám đầy tớ của chủ ta chăng? 25 Hơn nữa, há không phải là ý CHÚA mà ta đến đây để hủy diệt xứ này sao? CHÚA bảo ta rằng: Hãy lên đánh xứ này và tiêu diệt nó đi.”
26 Bấy giờ Ê-li-a-kim con trai Hinh-kia, với Sép-na và Giô-a nói với Ráp-sa-kê rằng: “Xin hãy nói với các tôi tớ ông bằng tiếng A-ram, vì chúng tôi hiểu tiếng ấy. Xin đừng nói với chúng tôi bằng tiếng Giu-đa, kẻo dân trên tường thành nghe được.”
27 Nhưng Ráp-sa-kê đáp lại họ: “Há chủ ta chỉ sai ta đến nói những lời này với chủ các ngươi và với các ngươi, mà không nói với những người đang ngồi trên tường thành kia, tức những người đang ăn phân và uống nước tiểu của mình, nữa sao?”
28 Đoạn Ráp-sa-kê đứng dậy và nói lớn bằng tiếng Giu-đa rằng: “Hãy nghe lời của đại đế ta là vua A-si-ri. 29 Vua phán như vầy: Chớ để Ê-xê-chia lừa gạt các ngươi, vì ông ấy không thể giải thoát các ngươi khỏi tay ta được đâu. 30 Chớ để Ê-xê-chia xúi giục các ngươi nương cậy nơi CHÚA, mà rằng: ‘CHÚA sẽ chắc chắn giải cứu chúng ta, và thành này sẽ không bị phó vào tay vua A-si-ri đâu.’
31 Chớ nghe theo lời của Ê-xê-chia, vì vua của A-si-ri có phán như vầy: Hãy làm hòa với ta và ra đây với ta, thì mỗi người trong các ngươi sẽ được ăn hoa quả của vườn nho và vườn vả mình, sẽ được uống nước của giếng mình, 32 cho đến khi ta đến đem các ngươi qua một xứ giống như xứ của các ngươi, một xứ có lúa và rượu, một xứ có bánh và vườn nho, một xứ có dầu ô-liu và mật, để các ngươi sẽ sống và không chết. Chớ để Ê-xê-chia dẫn dụ các ngươi đi sai lạc khi ông ấy nói rằng: ‘CHÚA sẽ giải cứu chúng ta.’ 33 Có thần của dân tộc nào đã giải cứu xứ họ thoát khỏi tay của vua A-si-ri chưa? 34 Các thần của dân Ha-mát và dân Ạt-bát ở đâu? Các thần của dân Sê-phạt-va-im, dân Hê-na, và dân Y-va ở đâu? Các thần ấy có giải cứu Sa-ma-ri thoát khỏi tay ta chăng? 35 Trong tất cả các thần của các nước, có thần nào đã giải cứu nước họ thoát khỏi tay của ta chăng? Thế thì CHÚA há có thể giải cứu Giê-ru-sa-lem thoát khỏi tay của ta sao?”
36 Nhưng dân chúng đều im lặng, chẳng ai đáp lại một lời, vì vua có truyền rằng: “Đừng trả lời hắn.”
37 Bấy giờ Ê-li-a-kim con trai Hinh-kia, quan tổng quản hoàng cung, Sép-na, quan bí thư, và Giô-a con trai A-sáp, quan quản lý văn khố, xé rách áo mình, đến với vua Ê-xê-chia tâu trình những lời Ráp-sa-kê đã nói.
2 Kings 18
New King James Version
2 Kings 18
New King James Version
Hezekiah Reigns in Judah(A)
18 Now it came to pass in the third year of (B)Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that (C)Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was (D)Abi[a] the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.
4 (E)He removed the [b]high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the [c]wooden image and broke in pieces the (F)bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it [d]Nehushtan. 5 He (G)trusted in the Lord God of Israel, (H)so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. 6 For he (I)held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses. 7 The Lord (J)was with him; he (K)prospered wherever he went. And he (L)rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. 8 (M)He [e]subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory, (N)from watchtower to fortified city.
9 Now (O)it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, (P)the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 (Q)Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them (R)in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they (S)did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do them.
13 And (T)in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14 Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay.” And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 15 So Hezekiah (U)gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house. 16 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave [f]it to the king of Assyria.
Sennacherib Boasts Against the Lord(V)
17 Then the king of Assyria sent the [g]Tartan, the [h]Rabsaris, and the [i]Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the (W)aqueduct from the upper pool, (X)which was on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. 18 And when they had called to the king, (Y)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the [j]scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. 19 Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: (Z)“What confidence is this in which you trust? 20 You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are [k]mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? 21 (AA)Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He (AB)whose [l]high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’ 23 Now therefore, I urge you, give 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 put riders on them! 24 How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 25 Have I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”
26 (AC)Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in (AD)Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in [m]Hebrew in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”
28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in [n]Hebrew, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 Thus says the king: (AE)‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; 30 nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’ 31 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me [o]by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own (AF)vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, (AG)a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The Lord will deliver us.” 33 (AH)Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of (AI)Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and (AJ)Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, (AK)that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”
36 But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.” 37 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah (AL)with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 18:2 Abijah, 2 Chr. 29:1ff.
- 2 Kings 18:4 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 18:4 Heb. Asherah, a Canaanite goddess
- 2 Kings 18:4 Lit. Bronze Thing, also similar to Heb. nahash, serpent
- 2 Kings 18:8 Lit. struck
- 2 Kings 18:16 Lit. them
- 2 Kings 18:17 A title, probably Commander in Chief
- 2 Kings 18:17 A title, probably Chief Officer
- 2 Kings 18:17 A title, probably Chief of Staff or Governor
- 2 Kings 18:18 secretary
- 2 Kings 18:20 Lit. a word of the lips
- 2 Kings 18:22 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 18:26 Lit. Judean
- 2 Kings 18:28 Lit. Judean
- 2 Kings 18:31 By paying tribute
2 Kings 18
New International Version
2 Kings 18
New International Version
Hezekiah King of Judah(A)(B)(C)
18 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah(D) son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years.(E) His mother’s name was Abijah[a] daughter of Zechariah. 3 He did what was right(F) in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David(G) had done. 4 He removed(H) the high places,(I) smashed the sacred stones(J) and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake(K) Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.[b])
5 Hezekiah trusted(L) in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. 6 He held fast(M) to the Lord and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses. 7 And the Lord was with him; he was successful(N) in whatever he undertook. He rebelled(O) against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. 8 From watchtower to fortified city,(P) he defeated the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory.
9 In King Hezekiah’s fourth year,(Q) which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it. 10 At the end of three years the Assyrians took it. So Samaria was captured in Hezekiah’s sixth year, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. 11 The king(R) of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes.(S) 12 This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant(T)—all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.(U) They neither listened to the commands(V) nor carried them out.
13 In the fourteenth year(W) of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah(X) and captured them. 14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:(Y) “I have done wrong.(Z) Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[c] of silver and thirty talents[d] of gold. 15 So Hezekiah gave(AA) him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
16 At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors(AB) and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem(AC)(AD)
17 The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander,(AE) his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool,(AF) on the road to the Washerman’s Field. 18 They called for the king; and Eliakim(AG) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna(AH) the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.
19 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:
“‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence(AI) of yours? 20 You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 21 Look, I know you are depending on Egypt,(AJ) that splintered reed of a staff,(AK) which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 22 But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
23 “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 24 How can you repulse one officer(AL) of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[e]? 25 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord?(AM) The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”
26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(AN) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
27 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
28 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive(AO) you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. 30 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
31 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(AP) and drink water from your own cistern,(AQ) 32 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life(AR) and not death!
“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ 33 Has the god(AS) of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath(AT) and Arpad?(AU) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 35 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”(AV)
36 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
37 Then Eliakim(AW) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn,(AX) and told him what the field commander had said.
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 18:2 Hebrew Abi, a variant of Abijah
- 2 Kings 18:4 Nehushtan sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and snake.
- 2 Kings 18:14 That is, about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons
- 2 Kings 18:14 That is, about 1 ton or about 1 metric ton
- 2 Kings 18:24 Or charioteers
2 Kings 18
King James Version
2 Kings 18
King James Version
18 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is in the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house.
16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 How then wilt 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?
25 Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which 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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