36:14 This is what the
king says: ‘
Don’t let
Hezekiah mislead you,
for he is
not able to
rescue you!
15 Don’t let
Hezekiah talk you
into trusting in the
Lord by
saying, “The
Lord will
certainly rescue us;
this city will
not be
handed over to the
king of
Assyria.”
16 Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’
For this is what the
king of
Assyria says, ‘
Send me a
token of your
submission and
surrender to me.
Then
each of you may
eat from his own
vine and
fig tree and
drink water from his own
cistern,
17 until I
come and
take you
to a
land just like your
own—a
land of
grain and
new wine, a
land of
bread and
vineyards.
18 Hezekiah is
misleading you when he
says, “The
Lord will
rescue us.” Have
any of the
gods of the
nations rescued their
lands from the
power of the
king of
Assyria?
19 Where are the
gods of
Hamath and
Arpad?
Where are the
gods of
Sepharvaim?
Indeed, did any gods
rescue Samaria from my
power?
20 Who among
all the
gods of
these lands have
rescued their
lands from my
power?
So how can the
Lord rescue Jerusalem from my
power?’”
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