Holy Scripture

Isaiah 36:18

A church father on this verse
“Then Rabsaces stood, and cried out with a loud voice in the Jews' language. Here his address to the people is set out. And first, his foolish words are set out, in which he frightens them with threats: he shall not be able to deliver you: who is this, that says the children of Israel can resist king Nabuchodonosor? (J…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

18Let not Hezekiah deceive you, saying, God will deliver you. Have the gods of the nations delivered each one his own land out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians?

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In context

16Hearken not to Hezekiah: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If ye wish to be blessed, come out to me: and ye shall eat every one of his vine and his fig trees, and ye shall drink water out of your own cisterns;

17until I come and take you to a land, like your own land, a land of corn and wine, and bread and vineyards.

— Isaiah 36:18 —

19Where is the god of Hamath, and Arpad? and where is the god of Sepharvaim? have they been able to deliver Samaria out of my hand?

20Which is the god of all these nations, that has delivered his land out of my hand, that God should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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