THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Isaiah Chapter 1 to 45)

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Isaiah 36:9 (NLT) - 9 With your tiny army, how can you think of challenging even the weakest contingent of my master’s troops, even with the help of Egypt’s chariots and charioteers?
 
Isaiah 36:10 (NLT) - 10 What’s more, do you think we have invaded your land without the Lord's direction? The Lord himself told us, ‘Attack this land and destroy it!’”
 
Isaiah 36:11 (NLT)
The Eliakim, Shebna and Joqah said to the a Assyrian chief of staff, "Please speak to us Aranaic, we understand it well. Don't speak in Hebrew, for the people on the wall will hear."
 
Isaiah 36:12 (NLT)
But Sennacherib's chief of staff replied "Do you think my master sent this message only to you and your master? He wants all the people to hear it, for when we put this city under siege, they will suffer along with you. They will be so hungry and thirsty that they will eat their own dung and drink their own urine."
 
Isaiah 36:13 (NLT)
Then the chief of staff stood and shouted in Hebrew to the people on the wall, "Listen to this message from the great king of Assyria!
 
Isaiah 36:14 (NLT)
This is what the great king says: Don't let Hezekiah deceive you. He will never be able to rescue you.
 
Isaiah 36:15 (NLT)
Don't let him fool you into trusting in the LORD, by saying 'The LORD will surely rescue us. This city will never fall into the hands of the Assyrian king.'
 
Isaiah 36:16 (NLT)
"Don't listen to Hezrkiah! These are the terms the king of Assyria is offering: Make peace with me__ open the gates and come out. Then each of you can continue eating from your own grapevine and fig tree , and drinking from your own well.
 
Isaiah 36:17 (NLT)
Then I will arrange to take you to another land this one__a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards.
 
Isaiah 36:18 (NLT)
"Dont let Hezekiah mislead you by saying, 'The LORD will rescue us!' Have gods of any other nation saved theur people from the king of Assyria?
 
Isaiah 36:19 (NLT) - 19 What happened to the gods of Hamath and Arpad? And what about the gods of Sepharvaim? Did any god rescue Samaria from my power?
 
Isaiah 36:20 (NLT) - 20 What god of any nation has ever been able to save its people from my power? So what makes you think that the Lord can rescue Jerusalem from me?”
 
Isaiah 36:21 (NLT) - 21 But the people were silent and did not utter a word because Hezekiah had commanded them, “Do not answer him.”
 
Isaiah 36:22 (NLT) - 22 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator; Shebna the court secretary; and Joah son of Asaph, the royal historian, went back to Hezekiah. They tore their clothes in despair, and they went in to see the king and told him what the Assyrian chief of staff had said.
 
Isaiah 37:1 (NLT) - 1 When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put on burlap and went into the Temple of the Lord.
 
Isaiah 37:2 (NLT) - 2 And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, all dressed in burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
 
Isaiah 37:3 (NLT)
They told him, "This is what King Hezekiah says: Today is a day of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It is like when a child is ready to be born, but the mother has no strength to deliver the baby.
 
Isaiah 37:4 (NLT)
But perhaps the LORD your God has heard the Assyrian Chief of Staff, sent by the King to defy the living God, and will punish him for his wotrds.
Oh pray for those of us who are left!"
 
Isaiah 37:6 (NLT)
the prophet replied, "Say to your master, 'This is what the LORD says: 'Do not be disturbed by by this blasphemous speech against me from the Assyrian King's messengers.
 
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