Isaiah 36:18

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Summary

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?

Lest

Hath

General references

Isaiah 37:11

Bible References

Lest

But if you say to me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?

So you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

that has said, With our tongue we shall do much; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

O Jehovah, how great are Your works; Your purposes are very deep.

Hath

Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, nations which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden in Telassar?

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the people of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hands?

Why should the nations say, Where now is their God?

For I know that Jehovah is great, and our LORD is above all gods.

For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.

Now if you are ready, at the time you hear the sound of the horn, the pipe, zither, the lyre, harp, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, fall down and worship the image which I have made. But if you do not worship, in that moment you shall be thrown into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hand?

Woe to him who says to the wood. Awake! To a dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and no breath is in its midst.

General references

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?