Isaiah 36:20

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Isaiah 36:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

21 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

22 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

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Isaiah 37:18

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.

Isaiah 37:19

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.

Isaiah 37:25

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Isaiah 37:28

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Isaiah 37:29

Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

Isaiah 45:16

They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.

Isaiah 45:17

But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

2 Kings 19:22

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

2 Kings 19:23

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

2 Kings 19:24

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

2 Kings 19:25

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

2 Kings 19:26

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

2 Kings 19:27

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

2 Kings 19:28

Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

2 Kings 19:29

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

2 Kings 19:30

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

2 Kings 19:31

For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

2 Kings 19:32

So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

2 Kings 19:33

He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.

2 Kings 19:34

‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

2 Kings 19:35

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

2 Kings 19:36

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

2 Kings 19:37

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

2 Chronicles 32:15

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”

2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

Job 15:25

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

Job 40:9

Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?

Job 40:10

Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

Job 40:11

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

Job 40:12

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Psalms 73:9

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

Daniel 3:15

Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”