Isaiah 36:3-10

3Then 1Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and 2Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to him.

4And 3Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria says: “What is this confidence that you have? 5I say, ‘Your plan and strength for the war are only 4empty words.’ Now on whom have you relied, that 5you have revolted against me? 6Behold, you have relied on the 6staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his 7hand and pierce it. 8So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him. 7But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He 9whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’? 8Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them! 9How then can you 10drive back even one 11official of the least of my master’s servants and 1213rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10And have I now come up 14without the Lord’s approval against this land to destroy it? 15The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”