2 Kings 18:30–35
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18:30Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” 18:31Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me.42 Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern, 18:32until I come and take you to a land just like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.” 18:33Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?4318:34Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?44 Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria45 from my power?4618:35Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’ ”47
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- 42 Heb “make with me a blessing and come out to me.”
- 43 Heb “Have the gods of the nations really rescued, each his land, from the hand of the king of Assyria?” The infinitive absolute lends emphasis to the main verb. The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not!”
- 44 The parallel passage in Isa 36:19 omits “Hena and Ivvah.” The rhetorical questions in v. 34a suggest the answer, “Nowhere, they seem to have disappeared in the face of Assyria’s might.”
- 45 For location see ; ; ; ; .
- 46 Heb “that they rescued Samaria from my hand?” But this gives the impression that the gods of Sepharvaim were responsible for protecting Samaria, which is obviously not the case. The implied subject of the plural verb “rescued” must be the generic “gods of the nations/lands” (vv. 33, 35).
- 47 Heb “that the Lord might rescue Jerusalem from my hand?” The logic runs as follows: Since no god has ever been able to withstand the Assyrian onslaught, how can the people of Jerusalem possibly think the Lord will rescue them?
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