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16 You must not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: “Make a blessing[a] with me, and come out to me, and each one will eat from his vine and from his fig tree and drink water from[b] his cistern, 17 until I come[c] and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, 18 lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, ‘Yahweh will save us!’ Did the gods of the nations each save his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:16 That is, a gesture of surrender
  2. Isaiah 36:16 Or “of”
  3. Isaiah 36:17 Literally “my coming”

16 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(A) and drink water from your own cistern,(B) 17 until I come and take you to a land like your own(C)—a land of grain and new wine,(D) a land of bread and vineyards.

18 “Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

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