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New International Version
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|2 Reyes 18:20|
You say you have strategy and military strength — but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?
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|2 Reyes 18:21|
Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man’s hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.
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|2 Reyes 18:22|
And if you say to me, “We are depending on the LORD our God” — isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
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|2 Reyes 18:23|
“`Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses — if you can put riders on them!
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|2 Reyes 18:24|
How can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? [Or charioteers]
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|2 Reyes 18:25|
Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the LORD? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’“
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|2 Reyes 18:26|
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
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|2 Reyes 18:27|
But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the men sitting on the wall — who, like you, will have to eat their own filth and drink their own urine?”
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|2 Reyes 18:28|
Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
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|2 Reyes 18:29|
This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you from my hand.
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Sugerencias
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