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.
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachis
The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was amo
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the
But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the height
Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put r