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## 2 Kings 18:19-22 in Context (Verses 16–25 KJV)
 
 [16 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/16) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/17) ¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/18) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/19) And Rab-shakeh 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/20) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/21) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/22) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/23) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/24) 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 ](/kjv/2-kings/18/25) 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.
 
[2 Kings 17](/kjv/2-kings/17) [2 Kings 19](/kjv/2-kings/19)

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