Sennacherib's Invasion of Judah

Wycliffe's Bible (Modern Spelling)

2Ki 18:13–37

13 In the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyr-ians, went up to all the strengthened cities of Judah, and took them.
14 Then Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent messengers to the king of Assyrians into Lachish, and said, I have sinned; go away from me, and I shall bear all things, that thou shalt put to me. Therefore the king of Assyrians putted on Hezekiah, king of Judah, a fine of three hundred talents of silver, and thirty talents of gold.
15 And Hezekiah gave all the silver, that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the king’s treasures or treasuries, to the king of Assyrians.
16 In that time Hezekiah brake the gates of the temple of the Lord, and the plates of gold, which he had fastened to them, and he gave those or them to the king of Assyrians.
17 Forsooth the king of Assyrians sent Tartan, and Rabsaris, and Rabshakeh, from Lachish to king Hezekiah, with strong hand to Jerusalem; and when they had gone up, they came to Jerusalem, and stood beside the water conduit of the higher cistern, which is in the way of the fuller, either tucker.
18 And they called the king; soothly Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, the sovereign of the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, chancellor, the son of Asaph, went out to them.
19 And Rabshakeh said to them, Speak ye to Hezekiah, The great king, the king of Assyrians, saith these things, What is this trust, in which thou enforcest or endeavourest thee?
20 In hap thou hast taken counsel, that thou wouldest make thee ready to battle. In whom trustest thou, that thou be fool-hardy to rebel against Sennacherib?
21 Whether thou hopest in a staff of a reed and broken, that is, upon Egypt, on which, if a man leaneth, it shall be broken, and shall enter into his hand, and shall pierce it. So is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all men that trust in him.
22 That if thou sayest to me, We have trust in the Lord our God; whether this is not he, whose high things and altars Hezekiah took away, and commanded to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 Now therefore, give ye weds to my lord, the king of Assyrians, and I shall give to you two thousand of horses, and see ye, whether ye may have riders of them?
24 And how may ye withstand before one prince of the least servants of my lord? Whether thou hast trust in Egypt, for chariots and knights thereof?
25 Whether I ascended or went up without God’s will to this place, that I should destroy it? The Lord said to me, Ascend thou or Go ye up to this land, and destroy thou it.
26 Forsooth Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, We pray thee, that thou speak by the language of Syria to us, thy servants; for we understand this language; and that thou speak not to us by the language of Jews, while the people heareth, which is on the wall.
27 And Rabshakeh answered, and said, Whether my lord sent me to thy lord and to thee, that I should speak these words, and not rather to the men that sit on the wall, that they eat their turds, and drink their piss with you?
28 Therefore Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a great voice by language of Jews, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyrians.
29 The king saith these things, Hezekiah deceive not you, for he may not deliver you from mine hand;
30 neither give he trust to you on the Lord, and say, The Lord delivering shall deliver us, and this city shall not be betaken in the hand of the king of Assyrians;
31 do not ye hear Hezekiah. For the king of Assyrians saith these things, Do ye with me that, that is profitable to you, and go ye out to me; and each man shall eat of his vinery or vine, and of his fig tree, and ye shall drink waters of your cisterns,
32 till I come, and translate you, or bear you over, into a land which is like your land, into a fruitful land, and plenteous of wine, a land of bread, and of vineries or vines, a land of olive trees, and of oil, and of honey; and ye shall live, and ye shall not die. Do not ye hear Hezekiah, that deceiveth you, and saith, The Lord shall deliver you.
33 Whether the gods of heathen men delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyrians?
34 Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivah? Whether they delivered Samaria from mine hand?
35 For who be they in all the gods of lands, that delivered their country from mine hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem from mine hand?
36 Therefore the people was still, and answered not anything to him; for they had taken commandment of the king, that they should not answer to him.
37 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, the sovereign of the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the chancellor, the son of Asaph, came with rent clothes to Hezekiah; and told to him the words of Rabshakeh.

2Ch 32:1–19

1 After which things and such truth, Sennacherib, the king of Assyrians, came and entered into Judah; and he besieged strong cities, and would take those or them.
2 And when Hezekiah had heard this thing, that is, that Sennacherib had come, and that all the fierceness of his battle was turned against Jerusalem,
3 he took counsel with the princes and with most strong men, that they should stop the heads of wells, which were without the city; and when the sentence of all men deemed this profitable,
4 he gathered together a full great multitude of men, and they stopped up all the wells, and the river, that flowed in the midst of the land; and said, Lest the kings of Assyrians come, and find abundance of waters.
5 Also Hezekiah did wittingly, and he builded all the wall that was destroyed, and he builded towers on the wall, and another wall without-forth. And he repaired Millo in the city of David; and made armour or arms of all kind, and shields.
6 And he ordained princes of warriors in the host; and he called together all men in the street of the gate of the city, and spake to the hearts of them, and said,
7 Do ye manly, and be ye comfort-ed; do not ye dread, neither be ye afeared of the king of Assyrians, nor of all the multitude that is with him; for many more be with us than with him.
8 A fleshly arm is with him; and the Lord our God is with us, which is our helper, and shall fight for us. And the people was comforted with such words of Hezekiah, king of Judah.
9 And after that these things were done, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem; for he himself, with all the host, besieged Lachish. He sent to Hezekiah, king of Judah, and to all the people that was in the city of Jerusalem, and said,
10 Sennacherib, king of Assyrians, saith these things, In whom have ye trust, and sit besieged in Jerusalem?
11 Whether not Hezekiah deceiveth you, that ye betake you to death in hunger and thirst, and he affirmeth, that the Lord your God shall deliver you from the hand of the king of Assyrians?
12 Whether this is not Hezekiah, that destroyed high places, and altars of him, and commanded to Judah and Jerusalem, and said, Ye shall worship before one altar, and therein ye shall burn incense?
13 Whether ye know not what things I have done, and my fathers, to all the peoples of lands? Whether the gods of folks and of all lands might deliver their country from mine hand?
14 Who is, of all the gods of folks, which my fathers destroyed, that might deliver his people from mine hand, that also your God may deliver you from mine hand?
15 Therefore Hezekiah deceive not you, neither scorn he you by vain counselling, neither believe ye to him; for if no god of all folks and countries might deliver his people from mine hand, and from the hand of my fathers, pursuingly or followingly neither your God shall be able to deliver you from this mine hand.
16 But also his servants spake many other things against the Lord God, and against Hezekiah, his servant.
17 Also he wrote epistles full of blas-phemy against the Lord God of Israel, and he spake against God, and said, As the gods of other folks might not deliver their people from mine hand, so and the God of Hezekiah may not deliver his people from mine hand.
18 Furthermore, and with a great cry in the language of Jews, he sounded against the people, that sat on the walls of Jerusalem, to make them afeared, and to take the city.
19 And he spake against the God of Israel, as against the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of men’s hands.

Isa 36:1–22

1 And it was done in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, the king of Assyrians, ascended or went up on all the strong cities of Judah, and took them.
2 And the king of Assyrians sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to king Hezekiah, with great power; and he stood at the water conduit of the higher cistern, in the way of the field of a fuller, or tucker.
3 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was on the house, went out to him, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the chancellor.
4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye to Hezekiah, The great king, the king of Assyrians, saith these things, What is the trust, in which thou trustest?
5 either by what counsel either strength disposest thou for to rebel? on whom hast thou trust, for thou hast gone away from me?
6 Lo! thou trustest on this broken staff of reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leaneth, either resteth, it shall enter into his hand, and shall pierce it; so doeth Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to all men that trust in him.
7 That if thou answerest to me, We trust in our Lord God or in the Lord our God; whether it is not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah did away, and he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
8 And now betake thee to my lord, the king of Assyrians, and I shall give to thee two thousand horses, and thou mayest not give of thee riders of those horses.
9 And how shalt thou abide the face of the judge of one place of the less servants of my lord? That if thou trustest in Egypt, and in carts, and in knights;
10 and now whether I ascended or went up to this land without the Lord, that I should destroy it? The Lord said to me, Ascend thou or Go up on this land, and destroy thou it.
11 And Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, Speak thou to thy servants by the language of Syria, for we understand; speak thou not to us by the language of Jews, in the ears of the people, which is on the wall.
12 And Rabshakeh said to them, Whether my lord sent me to thy lord, and to thee, that I should speak all these words, and not rather to the men that sit on the wall, that they eat their turds, and drink the piss off their feet, with you?
13 And Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a great voice in the language of Jews, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyrians.
14 The king saith these things, Hezekiah deceive not you, for he may not deliver you;
15 and Hezekiah give not to you trust on the Lord, and say, The Lord delivering shall deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyrians.
16 Do not ye hear Hezekiah. For why the king of Assyrians saith these things, Make ye blessing with me, and go ye out to me; and eat ye each man his vinery or his vine, and each man his fig tree, and drink ye each man the water of his cistern,
17 till I come, and take away you to a land which is as your land; to a land of wheat and of wine, to a land of loaves and of vineries or vines.
18 Hezekiah trouble not you, and say, The Lord shall deliver us. Whether the gods of folks delivered each his land from the hand of the king of Assyrians?
19 Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arphad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim? Whether they delivered Samaria from mine hand?
20 Who is of all the gods of these lands, that delivered his land from mine hand, that the Lord deliver Jerusalem from mine hand?
21 And they were still, and answered not to him a word. For why the king commanded to them, and said, Answer ye not to him.
22 And Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was on the house, and Shebna, the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, chancellor, entered with rent clothes to Hezekiah, and told to him the words of Rabshakeh.