2 Kings 18:29
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?”
28 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
30 Do 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.’
31 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace 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,
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.
Compare
- BSB
- This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; he cannot deliver you from my hand.
- KJV
- Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
- WEB
- The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.
- ASV
- Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
- DARBY
- Thus says the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of the [king's] hand.
- BLB
- Thus says the king: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you⁺, for he shall not be able to deliver you⁺ from his hand.
- ÅB
- Så sier kongen: La ikke Hiskia få narret dere! For han makter ikke å redde dere av hans hånd.
- OTB
- Dette sier kongen: ‘La ikke Hiskia bedra dere, for han vil ikke være i stand til å befri dere fra min hånd.
- B1930
- Så sier kongen: La ikke Esekias få narret eder! For han makter ikke å redde eder av hans hånd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 32:15
So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:11
Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, ‘The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria?’
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 contextDaniel 3:15–17
Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:4
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Read in contextDaniel 6:16
So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
Read in contextPsalms 73:8–9
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
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