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and sent Eliakim the household supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests—all of them covered in sackcloth—to Amoz’s son, the prophet Isaiah. They announced to him:

“This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy,[a] because children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth. Perhaps the Lord your God will take note of everything that Rab-shakeh has said, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to taunt the living God, and then he will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the survivors who remain.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:3 Or contempt