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

For how canst thou [a]despise any captain of the [b]least of my lord’s servants? and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10 And am I now come up without the Lord to this land to destroy it? The Lord said unto me, [c]Go up against this land and destroy it.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:9 Or, turn back.
  2. Isaiah 36:9 He reproacheth to Hezekiah his small power, which is not able to resist one of Sennacherib’s least captains.
  3. Isaiah 36:10 Thus the wicked to deceive us, will pretend the Name of the Lord: but we must try the spirits, whether they be of God or no.

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