🕊️WEB · Isaiah 37:8
What does Isaiah 37:8 mean?
"So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish."
— Isaiah 37:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
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