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Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?
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A War of Words
Commentators explain that Rabshakeh's speech is a calculated act of psychological warfare. By calling his master "the great king" while refusing to call Hezekiah a king, he aims to intimidate and demoralize. John Calvin describes these as "thunderbolts of words" designed to crush Hezekiah's spirit and force a surrender before the battle even begins.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What confidence—what is the ground of your confidence? On what do you trust? The appellation ‘great king’ was the customary title of the kin…
16th Century
Protestant
Say now to Hezekiah. He relates that the three ambassadors, though they were attended by all the magnificence that still remained in the k…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Rabshakeh said unto them the three ministers above mentioned: say you now to Hezekiah;…
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13th Century
Catholic
And it came to pass in the fourteenth year. Here the author recounts, as a historical account, the destruction of the A…
