Isaiah 36:20
Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
21But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.
Cross References
Exodus 5:2And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
2 Kings 19:22Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:19Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.
Job 40:9\40:14\Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.
Psalms 73:9Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
Isaiah 37:18Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:12-22
Sennacherib's Insolent Message. ( b. c. 710.) 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 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 Then Rabshakeh… Read the whole commentary →