Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful [brings] healing.

that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on [the] surface of [the] waters! Go, swift messengers, to a {tall} and {smooth} nation, to a people feared {near and far}, a {mighty, mighty} and trampling nation, whose land rivers divide.

For his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach to Hanes.

Look! Their heroes cry out [in the] street; [the] messengers of peace weep bitterly.

And Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we can understand [it], and you must not speak to us in Judean in the {hearing} of the people who [are] on the wall."

At that time, Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and recovered. And Hezekiah rejoiced over them and showed them his house of aromatic gum, the silver, gold, spices, good oil, all the house of his weapons, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing that Hezekiah had not shown them in his house or in all his dominion.

But if not, [while] [the other] is still far away, he sends an ambassador [and] asks {for terms of} peace.