2 Kings 18:20-22
1599 Geneva Bible
20 Thou thinkest, Surely I have [a]eloquence, [b]but counsel and strength are for the war. On whom then doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Lo, thou trustest now in this broken staff of reed, to wit, on [c]Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God, is not that he whose high places, and whose altars Hezekiah hath [d]taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
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- 2 Kings 18:20 Hebrew, talk of the lips.
- 2 Kings 18:20 Thou thinkest that words will serve to persuade thy people, or to move my master.
- 2 Kings 18:21 Egypt shall not only not be able to succor thee, but shall be an hurt unto thee.
- 2 Kings 18:22 Thus the idolaters think that God’s religion is destroyed, when superstition and idolatry are reformed.
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