2 Kings 18:23

And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

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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.

In Context

22And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

24How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:44And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.

1 Kings 20:18And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.

Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

Isaiah 36:8And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 18:18-37

Rab-Shakeh's Blasphemous Speech. ( b. c. 710.) 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 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… Read the whole commentary →

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