10AND [THE] [PEOPLE] RANSOMED OF YAHWEH THEY WILL RETURN! AND THEY WILL COME ZION WITH A SHOUT OF JOY AND GLADNESS OF PERPETUITY [WILL BE] ON HEAD THEIR JOY AND GLADNESS THEY WILL OVERTAKE [THEM] AND THEY WILL FLEE SORROW AND SIGHING 10So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
1AND IT WAS IN FOUR- TEEN YEAR OF THE KING HEZEKIAH HE WENT UP SENNACHERIB [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA ON ALL [THE] CITIES OF JUDAH <THE> FORTIFIED AND HE SEIZED THEM Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:13–37; 2 Chronicles 32:1–8) 1In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
2AND HE SENT [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA <OBJ.> [THE] CHIEF COMMANDER FROM LACHISH JERUSALEM TOWARDS TO THE KING HEZEKIAH WITH AN ARMY MASSIVE AND HE STOOD AT [THE] CONDUIT OF THE POOL <THE> UPPER ON [THE] HIGHWAY OF [THE] FIELD OF [THE] WASHER 2And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh,*NoteCloseHebrew Rabshakeh is the title of a high-ranking Assyrian military officer; here and throughout chapters 36 and 37, as well as 2 Kings 18 and 19 with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
3AND HE WENT OUT TO HIM ELIAKIM [THE] SON OF HILKIAH WHO [WAS] OVER THE HOUSE AND SHEBNA THE SCRIBE AND JOAH [THE] SON OF ASAPH THE RECORDER 3Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
4AND HE SAID TO THEM [THE] CHIEF COMMANDER SAY PLEASE TO HEZEKIAH THUS HE SAYS THE KING <THE> GREAT [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA WHAT? [IS] THE TRUST <THE> THIS WHICH YOU TRUST 4The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
5I SAY ONLY A WORD OF LIPS [ARE] A PLAN AND STRENGTH FOR <THE> WAR NOW ON WHOM? DO YOU RELY THAT YOU HAVE REBELLED AGAINST ME 5You claim to have*NoteCloseLiterally You speak; see DSS and 2 Kings 18:20; MT I speak. a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
6HERE! YOU RELY ON [THE] STAFF OF <THE> REED <THE> CRUSHED <THE> THIS ON EGYPT WHICH HE WILL SUPPORT HIMSELF ANYONE ON IT AND IT WILL GO IN PALM HIS AND IT WILL PIERCE IT [IS] THUS PHARAOH [THE] KING OF EGYPT TO ALL THOSE [WHO] RELY ON HIM 6Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
7AND IF YOU WILL SAY TO ME TO YAHWEH GOD OUR WE TRUST ¿ NOT [IS] HE [THE ONE] WHOM HE HAS REMOVED HEZEKIAH <OBJ.> HIGH PLACES HIS AND <OBJ.> ALTARS HIS AND HE HAS SAID TO JUDAH AND TO JERUSALEM <TO> BEFORE THE ALTAR <THE> THIS YOU WILL BOW DOWN 7But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
8AND NOW MAKE A WAGER PLEASE WITH MASTER MY THE KING OF ASSYRIA SO LET ME GIVE TO YOU TWO THOUSAND HORSES IF YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PUT FOR <THE> YOURSELF RIDERS ON THEM 8Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses— if you can put riders on them!
9AND HOW? WILL YOU TURN BACK <OBJ.> [THE] FACE OF [THE] GOVERNOR <OF> ONE OF [THE] SERVANTS OF MASTER MY <THE> LITTLE AND YOU HAVE BEEN RELYING <FOR> YOURSELF ON EGYPT FOR CHARIOTRY AND FOR HORSEMEN 9For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
10AND NOW ¿ <FROM> WITHOUT YAHWEH HAVE I COME UP ON THE LAND <THE> THIS TO DESTROY IT YAHWEH HE SAID TO ME GO UP TO THE LAND <THE> THIS AND DESTROY IT 10So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
11AND HE SAID ELIAKIM AND SHEBNA AND JOAH TO [THE] CHIEF COMMANDER SPEAK PLEASE TO SERVANTS YOUR ARAMAIC FOR [ARE] UNDERSTANDING WE AND MAY NOT YOU SPEAK TO US [IN] JUDEAN IN [THE] EARS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH [IS] ON THE CITY WALL 11Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew*NoteCloseOr in the dialect of Judah; also in verse 13 in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
12AND HE SAID [THE] CHIEF COMMANDER ¿ TO MASTER<S> YOUR AND TO YOU HAS HE SENT ME MASTER MY TO SPEAK <OBJ.> THE WORDS <THE> THESE ¿ NOT TO THE PEOPLE WHO SIT ON THE CITY WALL TO EAT <OBJ.> OWN EXCREMENT THEIR AND TO DRINK <OBJ.> [THE] WATER OF FEET THEIR WITH YOU 12But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
13AND HE STOOD [THE] CHIEF COMMANDER AND HE CALLED OUT WITH A VOICE GREAT [IN] JUDEAN AND HE SAID HEAR <OBJ.> [THE] WORDS OF THE KING <THE> GREAT [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA 13Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
14THUS HE SAYS THE KING MAY NOT HE DECEIVE <TO> YOU HEZEKIAH FOR NOT HE WILL BE ABLE TO DELIVER <OBJ.> YOU 14This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
15AND MAY NOT HE MAKE TRUST <OBJ.> YOU HEZEKIAH TO YAHWEH <TO> SAYING CERTAINLY <TO DELIVER> HE WILL DELIVER US YAHWEH NOT IT WILL BE GIVEN THE CITY <THE> THIS IN [THE] HAND OF [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA 15Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
16MAY NOT YOU LISTEN TO HEZEKIAH FOR THUS HE SAYS THE KING OF ASSYRIA MAKE WITH ME A BLESSING AND COME OUT TO ME AND EAT EVERYONE OWN VINE HIS AND EVERYONE OWN FIG TREE HIS AND DRINK EVERYONE [THE] WATER OF OWN CISTERN HIS 16Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me*NoteCloseOr Make a blessing with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
17UNTIL COME I AND I WILL TAKE <OBJ.> YOU TO A LAND LIKE OWN LAND YOUR A LAND OF GRAIN AND NEW WINE A LAND OF BREAD AND VINEYARDS 17until I come and take you away to a land like your own— a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18LEST HE SHOULD MISLEAD <OBJ.> YOU HEZEKIAH <TO> SAYING YAHWEH HE WILL DELIVER US ¿ HAVE THEY DELIVERED [THE] GODS OF THE NATIONS ANYONE <OBJ.> LAND ITS FROM [THE] HAND OF [THE] KING OF ASSYRIA 18Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
19WHERE? [WERE] [THE] GODS OF HAMATH AND ARPAD WHERE? [WERE] [THE] GODS OF SEPHARVAIM AND IF THEY HAVE DELIVERED <OBJ.> SAMARIA FROM HAND MY 19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
20WHO? AMONG ALL [THE] GODS OF THE LANDS <THE> THESE [ARE THOSE] WHICH THEY HAVE DELIVERED <OBJ.> LAND THEIR FROM HAND MY THAT HE WILL DELIVER YAHWEH <OBJ.> JERUSALEM FROM HAND MY 20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
21AND THEY KEPT SILENT AND NOT THEY ANSWERED <OBJ.> HIM ANYTHING FOR [WAS] [THE] COMMANDMENT OF THE KING IT <TO> SAYING NOT YOU MUST ANSWER HIM 21But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded “Do not answer him.”
22AND HE WENT ELIAKIM [THE] SON OF HILKIAH WHO [WAS] OVER THE HOUSE AND SHEBNA THE SCRIBE AND JOAH [THE] SON OF ASAPH THE RECORDER TO HEZEKIAH TORN OF GARMENTS AND THEY TOLD TO HIM <OBJ.> [THE] WORDS OF [THE] CHIEF COMMANDER 22Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.