2 Kings 18:22

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20 You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are¹ mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

21 ^aNow look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He ^awhose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’

23 Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

24 How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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2 Kings 18:22

The destruction of numerous shrines and altars where Yahweh had been worshipped II Kings 18:4 seemed to the Rab-shakeh conduct calculated not to secure the favor, but to call forth the anger, of the god. At any rate, it was conduct which he knew had been distasteful to many of Hezekiah' s subjects.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 18:22:**

Judges 17:13
2 Kings 18:4
2 Kings 21:3
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