Isaiah 36:7

But, if thou shouldst say unto me, In Yahweh our God, do we trust, Then is that not he whose high places and whose altars, Hezekiah hath removed, and said unto Judah and unto Jerusalem, Before this altar, shall ye bow yourselves down?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

In Context

6Lo! thou dost trust on the support of this bruised cane, on Egypt, whereon if a man lean it will enter his hand and lay it open,—So, is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust upon him.

8Now, therefore, pledge thyself I pray thee with my lord, the king of Assyria,—That I supply thee with two thousand horses, If thou on thy part be able to set riders upon them;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:2Ye must utterly destroy, all the places where the nations whom ye are dispossessing have served their gods,—Upon the high mountains And upon the hills, And under every green tree;

2 Kings 18:4He, removed the high places, and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Sacred Stem,—and beat in pieces the serpent of bronze that, Moses, had made, because, until those days, had the sons of Israel been burning incense thereunto, so he called it Nehushtan.

1 Chronicles 5:20and were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all that were with them were delivered into their hand,—for, unto God, made they outcry, in the war, and he suffered himself to be entreated by them, because they put their trust in him;

2 Chronicles 30:14Then rose they up, and removed the altars, which were in Jerusalem,-and, all the censers, removed they, and cast them into the Kidron ravine.

2 Chronicles 32:7Be strong and bold, do not fear neither be dismayed, because of the king of Assyria, nor because of all the multitude that is with him,—for, with us, is One greater than with him:

Psalms 22:4In thee, trusted our fathers, They trusted, and thou didst deliver them;

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:2-11

Sennacherib's Insolent Message. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. 3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son,… Read the whole commentary →

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