Isaiah 36 (NET)

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Isaiah 36:1¹In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:1 2 Kgs 18:13 2 Kgs 18:17 Isa 10:28-32 Isa 1:7-8 Isa 33:7-8 Isa 7:17 Isa 8:7-8

Isaiah 36:2²The king of Assyria sent his chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. The chief adviser stood at the conduit of the upper pool that is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:9-23 Isa 7:3 2 Kgs 18:17-37 Isa 22:9-11

Isaiah 36:3³Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 20:24-25 2 Sam 8:16-17 Isa 22:15-21

Isaiah 36:4⁴The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:19-37 2 Chr 32:14-16 2 Chr 32:7-10 2 Kgs 18:5 2 Kgs 19:10 Acts 12:22-23 Ezek 31:3-18 Isa 10:8-14 Isa 37:11-15 Jude 1:16

Isaiah 36:5⁵Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:7 2 Kgs 24:1 Ezek 17:15 Jer 52:3 Neh 2:19-20 Prov 21:30-31 Prov 24:5-6

Isaiah 36:6⁶Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 29:6-7 2 Kgs 18:21 2 Kgs 17:4 Isa 20:5-6 Isa 30:1-7 Isa 31:3 Jer 37:5-8

Isaiah 36:7⁷Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:4-5 1 Cor 2:15 Ps 42:10-11 Ps 42:5 1 Chr 5:20 2 Chr 16:7-9 2 Chr 30:14 2 Chr 31:1 2 Chr 32:12 2 Chr 32:7-8

Isaiah 36:8⁸Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you 2,000 horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 17:40-43 1 Kgs 20:10 1 Kgs 20:18 2 Kgs 14:14 2 Kgs 18:23 Neh 4:2-5 Ps 123:3-4 Ps 20:7-8 Isa 10:13-14

Isaiah 36:9⁹Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 10:8 2 Kgs 18:24 Deut 17:16 Isa 20:5 Isa 30:16-17 Isa 30:2-5 Isa 30:7 Isa 31:3 Isa 36:6 Jer 2:36

Isaiah 36:10¹⁰Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:25 Isa 10:5-7 1 Kgs 13:18 2 Chr 35:21 Amos 3:6 Isa 37:28

Isaiah 36:11¹¹Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezra 4:7 Dan 2:4 2 Kgs 18:26-27

Isaiah 36:12¹²But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:27 Lev 26:29 2 Kgs 6:25-29 Deut 28:53-57 Ezek 4:16 Isa 9:20 Jer 19:9 Lam 4:9-10

Isaiah 36:13¹³The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:18 1 Sam 17:8-11 2 Kgs 18:28-32 Dan 4:37 Ezek 31:3-10 Isa 10:8-13 Isa 36:4 Isa 8:7 Ps 17:10-13 Ps 73:8-9

Isaiah 36:14¹⁴This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Thess 2:4 Rev 13:5-6 2 Chr 32:11 2 Chr 32:13-19 2 Kgs 19:10-13 2 Kgs 19:22 Dan 3:15-17 Dan 6:20 Dan 7:25 Isa 37:10-13

Isaiah 36:15¹⁵Don’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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 36:7 Isa 37:10 Isa 37:23-24 Matt 27:43 Ps 22:7-8 Ps 4:2 Ps 71:9-11

Isaiah 36:16¹⁶Don’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,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 4:25 Zech 3:10 Mic 4:4 1 Kgs 4:20 1 Sam 11:3 1 Sam 25:27 2 Cor 9:5 2 Kgs 18:31 2 Kgs 24:12-16 2 Kgs 5:15

Isaiah 36:17¹⁷until 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:32 2 Kgs 17:6-23 2 Kgs 18:9-12 2 Kgs 24:11 Deut 11:12 Deut 8:7-9 Exod 3:8 Job 20:17 Prov 12:10

Isaiah 36:18¹⁸Hezekiah 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?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 36:15 Isa 37:17-18 2 Chr 32:13-17 2 Kgs 18:33-35 2 Kgs 19:12-13 2 Kgs 19:17-18 Dan 3:15 Hab 2:19-20 Isa 36:10 Isa 36:7

Isaiah 36:19¹⁹Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria from my power?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 10:9-11 Jer 49:23 2 Kgs 17:24 2 Kgs 17:5-7 2 Sam 8:9 Isa 37:11-13 Num 34:8 2 Kgs 18:10-12

Isaiah 36:20²⁰Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:19 Ps 50:21 1 Kgs 20:23 2 Chr 32:15 2 Kgs 19:22-37 Dan 3:15 Exod 5:2 Isa 37:18-19 Isa 37:23-29 Isa 45:16-17

Isaiah 36:21²¹They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 26:4 2 Kgs 18:26 2 Kgs 18:37 Amos 5:13 Matt 7:6 Prov 9:7-8 Ps 38:13-15 Ps 39:1

Isaiah 36:22²²Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 36:3 Isa 33:7 2 Kgs 5:7 Ezra 9:3 Isa 36:11 Isa 37:1-2 Matt 26:65