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The spokesman holds a snapped river reed as a prop before the delegation; no Egyptian alliance is shown as certain.
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2 Kings 18:21

The broken reed taunt

Hezekiah and the Assyrian Challenge · 2 Kings 18

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21Look, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which, if a man leans on it, will go into his palm and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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