BRAGADAJAH 1116
Sennacherib Defies God
So it came to pass that when Rabshakeh returned to his lord and master
the king of Assyria, he found him at war with Libnah; for he had heard that he
was no longer at Lachish. And when Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Ethiopia
had come out to fight against him, he sent another messenger to Hezekiah
telling him, “Let not thy God in whom you trust deceive you by telling you that
Jerusalem will not fall into my hands, for you have heard what the king of
Assyria has done to all lands destroying them utterly. How, therefore, you hope
to be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
destroyed? Lands such as Gozan, Haren, Rezeph and the children of Eden which
were in Thelasar? Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the
king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivah?” So Sennacherib by his own mouth and also by
that of his servants defied God. But as he was about to learn, it is one thing
defying the gods of the nations, gods made of wood, and stone, and clay, and of
gold and silver, but to be boldfaced and challenge All Mighty God, is quite
another.
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