Isaiah 36:15
Do not allow him to persuade you to trust in Yahweh, saying that Yahweh will rescue you, and that the army of the King of Assyria will never capture this city!’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
14He says, ‘Do not allow Hezekiah to deceive you! He will not be able to rescue you!
Cross References
Psalms 22:7Everyone who sees me [HYP] makes fun of me. They sneer at me and insult me by shaking their heads at me as though I were an evil man. They say,
Isaiah 36:7But perhaps you will say to me, ‘ No, we are relying on Yahweh our God to help us.’ I would reply, ‘Is he not the one whom you insulted by tearing down his shrines and altars and forcing everyone in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to worship only in front of the altar in Jerusalem?’
Isaiah 37:23Whom do you think you have been despising and ridiculing? Whom do you think you were shouting at? Whom do you think you were looking at very proudly/arrogantly? It was I, the Holy One whom the Israelis worship!
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 →