iSee Judg. 9:15
2 Kings 18:13-14
Sennacherib Attacks Judah
13 aIn the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 14And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” bAnd the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver and thirty talents of gold. 2 Kings 18:30
30Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’2 Kings 19:22-25
22 “Whom have you dmocked and ereviled?Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against fthe Holy One of Israel!
23 gBy your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, h‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of iLebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most jfruitful forest.
24I dug wells
and drank foreign waters,
and I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams kof Egypt.’
25 “Have you not heard
that lI determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what mnow I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,
2 Chronicles 32:15-19
15Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and 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 out of my hand!’”16And his servants said still more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah. 17And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the Lord, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.” 18And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city. 19And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
Isaiah 10:7-15
7But he ndoes not so intend,and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;
8for he says:
o“Are not my commanders all kings?
9 pIs not qCalno like rCarchemish?
Is not sHamath like tArpad?
uIs not vSamaria like Damascus?
10As my hand has reached to wthe kingdoms of the idols,
whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11shall I not do to Jerusalem and xher idols
yas I have done to Samaria and her images?”
12 zWhen the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, aahe ▼
▼Hebrew I
will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes. 13 acFor he says: “By the strength of my hand I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I remove the boundaries of peoples,
and plunder their treasures;
like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
14My hand has found like a nest
the wealth of the peoples;
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
so I have gathered all the earth;
and there was none that moved a wing
or opened the mouth or chirped.”
15 Shall adthe axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
Nahum 1:9
9What aedo you plot against the Lord?afHe will make a complete end;
trouble will not rise up a second time.
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