19 Where is the god of [a]Hamath, and of Arpad? where is the god of Sepharvaim? or how have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

20 Who is he among all the gods of these lands, that hath delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

21 Then they [b]kept silence, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:19 That is, of Antioch in Syria, of the which these two other cities also were: whereby we see how every town had his peculiar idol, and how the wicked make God an idol because they do not understand that God maketh them his scourge, and punisheth cities for sin.
  2. Isaiah 36:21 Not that they did not show by evident signs that they did detest his blasphemy: for they had now rent their clothes, but they knew it was in vain to use long reasoning with this infidel, whose rage they should have so much more provoked.

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