Isaiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 453
The Books of the Prophets
salem, ‘ You must worship at this Altar? ’ ‘ But, however, come over to my
Master the King of Ashur, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put riders on them for yourself.-——-S0 you cannot turn back the face of one of the least of my Master’s Servants ;-·~then how can you trust upon Mitzer for chariots and horsemen? And,now, have I come up against this country to seize it without the LORD ?-·—'l`he LORD said to me, Go up and seize that land 1 ’ xx Then Eliakim, and Shebna, and We beg you to speak to your servants in 12 16 18 20 Aramic, for we understand it, and do not speak in judish in the hearing of all the men on the Wall. Has my
Master sent me to your Master, or to you, to say these things ?-··-·Was it not to the men standing upon the Wal-ls, who eat their own dung and drink their own piss with you? ' Rabshakah then stood up and
shouted with a loud voice in ]udish and exclaimed: Listen to the message of the Great King, the King of Ashur! Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he is not able to defend you. And do not you trust with Hezekiah on the Loan, when he says; ‘ The LORD will deliver us l ’~—-‘ The LORD will not give this City into the hand of the King of Ashur;’~·-Listen not to Hezekiah !·—f0r thus says the King of Ashur, ‘Make a Peace with me, and meet me, and let every man eat his own grapes, and every man. his Own figs, and every one drink fromyhis own well, until I come and remove you to a land like your own land; a land of corn and beer; a land of bread and vineyards ;—-¢for Hezekiah deoeives you in saying,-—‘ The LORD will deliver us I ‘ Which of the gods of the Nations
has delivered its land from the hand of the King of Ashur ?———Where are the gods of Khamath ?-·—of Arfad? of the Sefarvaim ?-—·-And who de- livered Shomeron out of my hand? Who of all the gods of those Countries has delivered his land from my hand ? that the LORD should deliver jeru- . . But they were silent, for the King’s
answer not a word to his speech. But Eliakim~ben·Hilkiah, who was
Prime Minister, and Shebna the Secretary, and ]oakh·bnn·Asaf the Chancellor, returned to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and reported to him the speech of Rabshakah. 21 22
But when Hezekiah heard it he tore 37 his own robes, and put on a sack, and went to the House of the EvER— LIVING. But he sent Eliakim the Premier, and Shebna the Secretary, and the Chiefs of the Priesthood, with sacks upon their waists to Isaiah ~ ben-Amoz, the Prophet, and they —·· Hezekiah says this, ’I`0·day is a day of distress, and insult, and contempt ;-·for the chil— dren have come to birth and there is not strength to bear them. ‘Your Evan-Lxvmc Gon has a1—
ready heard the words of Rabshakah whom his master the King of Ashur has sent to revile the Gon or Linn, and to insult Him with the words which your Evan-Lrviuo Gon has heard,-—therefore lift up a prayer for the remnants left. The Ministers of Hezekiah went
thus to Isaiah, and Isaiah replied to them :—»- Say this to your Prince; The
EVER-LIVING answers thus ;—-·Fear not the speeches. which you have heard in which that Lad of the King of Ashur blasphemed against Me. I will send a Terror to him, when he hears a rumour, and he will return to his own country, and he shall fall by the sword in his own land. Rabshakah then withdrew and met
the King of Ashur besieging Libnah, for he heard that he had retreated from Lakish. Then he' heard about '1`hirakah, King of Kush, saying ‘ ‘He is he at- tended to it ;··——but sent messengers to Hezekiah to threaten ;—-·say this to Hezekiah King of Judah ; ‘ Trust not your GOD, upon Whom
you rely when you say, ‘ HE will not give jerusalem to the hand of the King of Ashur! ’ For you have heard what the Kings of Ashur have done to all Countries to ruin them,——-and can you escape? ‘ Have the gods of those Nations
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