Isaiah 36:8

Easy To Read Version

If you still want to fight, my master, the king of Assyria will make this agreement with you. I promise that I will give you 2,000 horses if you can find enough men to ride those horses into battle.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:10

Then they came back with another message from Ben Hadad. The message said, “I will completely destroy Samaria. I promise that there will be nothing left of that city! There won’t be enough of that city left for my men to find any souvenirs [220] to take home. May God destroy me if I don’t do this!”

1 Kings 20:18

So Ben Hadad said, “They might be coming to fight. Or they might be coming to ask for peace. Capture them alive.”

2 Kings 14:14

Then Jehoash took all the gold and silver and all the dishes in the Lord’s temple and in the treasures of the king’s house. Jehoash also took people to be his prisoners. Then he went back to Samaria.

2 Kings 18:13

During the 14th year that Hezekiah was king, Sennacherib king of Assyria went to fight against all the strong cities of Judah. Sennacherib defeated all those cities.

2 Kings 18:23

Now make this agreement with my master, the king of Assyria. I promise that I will give you 2,000 horses if you can find men to ride them.

Isaiah 36:2

Sennacherib sent his commander with a large army to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The commander and his army left Lachish and went to Jerusalem. They stopped near the aqueduct {\cf2\super [336]} by the Upper Pool. (The Upper Pool is on the road to Laundryman’s Field.)

Isaiah 36:7

But maybe you will say, “We are trusting in the Lord our God to help us.” But I know that Hezekiah destroyed the altars {\cf2\super [337]} and high places {\cf2\super [338]} where people worshiped the Lord. And Hezekiah told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship only at this one altar here in Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 36:9

But even then you will not be able to defeat even one of my master’s lowest ranking officers! So why do you continue to depend on Egypt’s chariots {\cf2\super [339]} and horse soldiers!