Ê-sai 36
Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống ⇄ NET Bible
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
The king of Assyria sent his chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. The chief adviser stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.
Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet him.
The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?
Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?
StudyCây sậy gãy — Ê-díp-tô được so sánh với một cây sậy mảnh dẻ, nó gãy và đâm thủng tay của bất cứ ai dựa vào nó. Ráp-sa-kê chế nhạo sự nương cậy của Giu-đa vào Ê-díp-tô để được giúp đỡ về quân sự, cảnh báo rằng điều đó chỉ mang lại đau đớn.Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!
StudySự cải cách của Ê-xê-chia — Ê-xê-chia đã dỡ bỏ các nơi cao và bàn thờ để tập trung việc thờ phượng tại Giê-ru-sa-lem. Ráp-sa-kê xuyên tạc điều này như là xúc phạm Đức Chúa Trời, nhưng thực ra đó là sự vâng phục mệnh lệnh của Đức Chúa Trời để chỉ thờ phượng tại đền thờ.Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’
Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.
Certainly you will not refuse one of my master’s minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.
StudyLời tuyên bố về sứ mạng thiên thượng — Ráp-sa-kê tuyên bố rằng Đức Giê-hô-va đã sai ông đến để hủy diệt Giu-đa, nhưng đây là tuyên truyền. Đức Chúa Trời đã dùng A-si-ri như một cây roi để phán xét, nhưng Ngài sẽ sau đó giải cứu Giê-ru-sa-lem. Lời tuyên bố này là sai trái và kiêu ngạo.Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’”
StudyRào cản ngôn ngữ — Các quan chức yêu cầu Ráp-sa-kê nói bằng tiếng A-ram, ngôn ngữ ngoại giao, thay vì tiếng Giu-đa, để dân thường trên tường thành không hiểu và không bị kinh hoàng.Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
But the chief adviser said, “My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”
The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.
This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!
Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,
until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
Hezekiah is misleading you when he says, “The Lord will rescue us.” Has any of the gods of the nations rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria from my power?
Who among all the gods of these lands have rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’”
StudyLệnh im lặng — Ê-xê-chia đã ra lệnh cho các quan chức của mình không được trả lời Ráp-sa-kê. Sự im lặng của họ cho thấy sự vâng phục và ngăn chặn việc tạo cơ hội cho những lời chế nhạo của kẻ thù.They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”
Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.
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