These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Isaiah 36
Tanakh 22 verses
-
1
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of , that Sennacherib of came up against all the fortified cities of , and took them.
Cross references (8)
-
2
And the of sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to unto with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers’ field.
Cross references (4)
-
3
Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
Cross references (3)
- 4 And Rab-shakeh said unto them: ‘Say ye now to : Thus saith the great , the of : What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
-
5
I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?
Cross references (7)
-
6
Behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon ; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh of to all that trust on him.
Cross references (7)
- 7 But if thou say unto me: We trust in our ; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars hath taken away, and hath said to and to : Ye shall before this ?
- 8 Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master, the of , and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
- 9 How then canst thou turn away the of one captain, even of the least of my master’s servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on for chariots and for horsemen!
-
10
And am I now come up without against this land to destroy it? The said unto me: Go up against this land, and destroy it.’
Cross references (6)
-
11
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rab-shakeh: ‘Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Aramean 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.’
Cross references (3)
- 12 But Rab-shakeh 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?’
- 13 Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said: ‘Hear ye the words of the great , the of .
- 14 Thus saith the : Let not beguile you, for he will not be able to deliver you;
-
15
neither let make you trust in , saying: The will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the of .
Cross references (7)
- 16 Hearken not to ; for thus saith the of : Make your 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;
- 17 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.
-
18
Beware lest persuade you, saying: The will deliver us. Hath any of the Elohims of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the of ?
Cross references (19)
-
19
Where are the Elohims of Hamath and Arpad? where are the Elohims of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered out of my hand?
Cross references (8)
- 20 Who are they among all the Elohims of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that should deliver out of my hand?’
-
21
But they held their , and answered him not a ; for the king’s was, saying: ‘Answer him not.’
Cross references (8)
-
22
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
Cross references (7)