2 Kings 18:25
23 Now, 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!
24 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
27 But 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?”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
- KJV
- Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
- WEB
- Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”
- ASV
- Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
- DARBY
- Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.
- BLB
- Now is [it] without YHWH [that] I have come up against this place to destroy it? YHWH said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
- ÅB
- Mener du da at jeg har draget opp mot dette sted for å ødelegge det, uten at Herren har villet det? Nei, Herren har selv sagt til meg: Dra opp mot dette land og ødelegg det!
- OTB
- Har jeg nå kommet opp uten Herrens samtykke mot dette stedet for å ødelegge det? Herren sa til meg, “Gå opp mot dette landet, og ødelegg det.”’”
- B1930
- Mener du da at jeg har draget op mot dette sted for å ødelegge det, uten at Herren har villet det? Nei, Herren har selv sagt til mig: Dra op mot dette land og ødelegg det!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 19:6
who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
Read in context2 Kings 19:22–37
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Read in contextAmos 3:6
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
Read in context2 Chronicles 35:21
But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”
Read in contextJohn 19:10–11
So Pilate said to Him, “Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?”
Read in context1 Kings 13:18
Then the prophet replied, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” The old prophet was lying to him,
Read in contextIsaiah 10:5–6
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
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