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And ^(C1)Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says: "What is this confidence that you have?

"I say, 'Your plan and strength for the war are only ^(F1)empty words.' Now on whom have you relied, that ^(C1)you have revolted against me?

"Behold, you have relied on the ^(C1)staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his ^(F1)hand and pierce it. ^(C2)So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

"But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He ^(C1)whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar'?

"Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

"How then can you ^(F1)drive back even one ^(F2)official of the least of my master's servants and ^(F3)(C1)rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

"And have I now come up ^(F1)without the LORD'S approval against this land to destroy it? ^(C1)The LORD said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it.'"'"