--- title: "Isaiah 36:4-20 KJV - \"And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye n...\" | Real Bible Believers" description: "\"And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wher\" — Read Isaiah 36:4-20 in the King James Version (KJV) with commentary, cross references, and Greek/Hebrew lexicon." image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/kjv/isaiah/36/4-20" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/36)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/36)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/36) Audio ## Isaiah 36:4-20 in Context (Verses 1–22 KJV) [1 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/1) Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, *that* Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. [2 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/2) And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field. [3 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/3) Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.* [4 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/4) ¶ And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence *is* this wherein thou trustest? [5 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/5) I say, *sayest thou*, (but *they are but* vain words) *I have* counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?** [6 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/6) Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so *is* Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. [7 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/7) But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: *is it* not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? [8 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/8) Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.* [9 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/9) 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? [10 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/10) And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. [11 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/11) ¶ Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian 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. [12 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/12) ¶ But Rabshakeh 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, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? [13 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/13) Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. [14 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/14) Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you. [15 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/15) Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. [16 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/16) Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make *an agreement* with me *by* a present, 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 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/17) 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 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/18) *Beware* lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? [19 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/19) Where *are* the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where *are* the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? [20 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/20) Who *are they* among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? [21 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/21) But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not. [22 ](/kjv/isaiah/36/22) ¶ 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 Hezekiah with *their* clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. 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