Add parallel Print Page Options

And Rabshakeh said to them, “Please tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this, in which you trust?

“I tell you, surely your eloquence, counsel and strength are for war. On whom, then, do you trust, that you rebel against me?

“Lo, you trust in this broken staff of a reed, in Egypt, whereupon if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it, as is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who trust in him.

Read full chapter