KJV King James Version
[Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Isaiah 36:18
[Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do 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?
WEB World English Bible
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
ASV American Standard Version
Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. ‘Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?
Surrounding context — Isaiah 36
15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 [Beware] lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
20 Who [are they] among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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פֶּן־H6435 · penlestיַסִּ֨יתH5496 · sutto inciteאֶתְכֶ֤םH853 · et[Obj.]חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙H2396 · chiz.qiy.yahHezekiahלֵאמֹ֔רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDיַצִּילֵ֑נוּH5337 · na.tsalto rescueהַהִצִּ֜ילוּH5337 · na.tsalto rescueאֱלֹהֵ֤יH430 · e.lo.himGodהַגּוֹיִם֙H1471 · goynationאִ֣ישׁH376 · ishmanאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אַרְצ֔וֹH776 · e.retsland: country/planetמִיַּ֖דH3027 · yadhandמֶ֥לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingאַשּֽׁוּר׃H804 · ash.shurAssyria
Cross-references
Isaiah 36:15Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.Isaiah 37:17-18Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.2 Chronicles 32:13-17Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of [other] lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?Psalm 92:5-7O LORD, how great are thy works! [and] thy thoughts are very deep.Psalm 135:15-18The idols of the heathen [are] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.Psalm 115:2-8Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?Isaiah 37:12-13Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?Isaiah 36:10And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.Jeremiah 10:10-12But the LORD [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.Psalm 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips [are] our own: who [is] lord over us?2 Kings 19:12-13Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?Habakkuk 2:19-20Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.Daniel 3:15Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who [is] that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?2 Kings 19:17-18Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,Psalm 135:5-6For I know that the LORD [is] great, and [that] our Lord [is] above all gods.2 Kings 18:33-35Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?Isaiah 36:7But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: [is it] not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?Isaiah 37:10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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