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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now therefore, I pray you, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria and give him pledges, and I will give you two thousand horses–if you are able on your part to put riders on them. American Standard Version (1901) Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. Common English Bible “So now, make a wager with my master, Assyria’s king. I’ll give you two thousand horses if you can supply the riders! Catholic Public Domain Version And now, hand yourselves over to my lord, the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, and you will not be able to find riders for them on your own. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses: and thou wilt not be able on thy part to find riders for them. |
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!”
So Ben Hadad said, “They might be coming to fight. Or they might be coming to ask for peace. Capture them alive.”
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.”
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!