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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 18:19 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 18:19 |
Strong Concordance |
And Rabshakeh [07262] said [0559] unto them, Speak [0559] ye now to Hezekiah [02396], Thus saith [0559] the great [01419] king [04428], the king [04428] of Assyria [0804], What confidence [0986] is this wherein thou trustest [0982]? |
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King James |
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Rab-shakeh said--The insolent tone he assumed appears surprising. But this boasting [Kg2 18:19-25], both as to matter and manner, his highly colored picture of his master's powers and resources, and the impossibility of Hezekiah making any effective resistance, heightened by all the arguments and figures which an Oriental imagination could suggest, has been paralleled in all, except the blasphemy, by other messages of defiance sent on similar occasions in the history of the East. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The Rab-shakeh, the third in rank of the three Assyrian ambassadors, probably took the prominent part in the conference because he could speak Hebrew Kg2 18:26, whereas the Tartan and the Rabsaris could not do so.
The great king - This title of the monarchs of Assyria is found in use as early as 1120 B.C. Like the title, "king of kings," the distinctive epithet "great" served to mark emphatically the vast difference between the numerous vassal monarchs and the suzerain of whom they held their crowns. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Thus saith, &c. - But what are the greatest men when they come to compare with God, or when God comes to contend with them? |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| What confidence is this - מה הבטחן הזה ma habbittachon hazzeh. The words are excessively insulting: What little, foolish, or unavailing cause of confidence is it, to which thou trustest? I translate thus, because I consider the word בטחון bittachon as a diminutive, intended to express the utmost contempt for Hezekiah's God. |
19 And Rabshakeh [07262] said [0559] unto them, Speak [0559] ye now to Hezekiah [02396], Thus saith [0559] the great [01419] king [04428], the king [04428] of Assyria [0804], What confidence [0986] is this wherein thou trustest [0982]?
20 Thou sayest [0559], (but they are but vain [08193] words [01697],) I have counsel [06098] and strength [01369] for the war [04421]. Now on whom dost thou trust [0982], that thou rebellest [04775] against me?
21 Now, behold, thou trustest [0982] upon the staff [04938] of this bruised [07533] reed [07070], even upon Egypt [04714], on which if a man [0376] lean [05564], it will go [0935] into his hand [03709], and pierce [05344] it: so is Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714] unto all that trust [0982] on him.
22 But if ye say [0559] unto me, We trust [0982] in the LORD [03068] our God [0430]: is not that he, whose high places [01116] and whose altars [04196] Hezekiah [02396] hath taken away [05493], and hath said [0559] to Judah [03063] and Jerusalem [03389], Ye shall worship [07812] before [06440] this altar [04196] in Jerusalem [03389]?
23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges [06148] to my lord [0113] the king [04428] of Assyria [0804], and I will deliver [05414] thee two thousand [0505] horses [05483], if thou be able [03201] on thy part to set [05414] riders [07392] upon them.
24 How then wilt thou turn away [07725] the face [06440] of one [0259] captain [06346] of the least [06996] of my master's [0113] servants [05650], and put thy trust [0982] on Egypt [04714] for chariots [07393] and for horsemen [06571]?
25 Am I now come up [05927] without [01107] the LORD [03068] against this place [04725] to destroy [07843] it? The LORD [03068] said [0559] to me, Go up [05927] against this land [0776], and destroy [07843] it.
26 Then said [0559] Eliakim [0471] the son [01121] of Hilkiah [02518], and Shebna [07644], and Joah [03098], unto Rabshakeh [07262], Speak [01696], I pray thee, to thy servants [05650] in the Syrian language [0762]; for we understand [08085] it: and talk [01696] not with us in the Jews' language [03066] in the ears [0241] of the people [05971] that are on the wall [02346].