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## Isaiah 36:5-6 in Context (Verses 2–9 KJV)
 
 [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?
 
[Isaiah 35](/kjv/isaiah/35) [Isaiah 37](/kjv/isaiah/37)

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