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After Judah’s fortified cities fall, Assyria’s envoy confronts Jerusalem’s officials at the upper pool.
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Isaiah 36:1-3

Assyria reaches Jerusalem

The Assyrian Envoy at Jerusalem · Isaiah 36

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1In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

2Then the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a heavy force. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the launderer’s field.

3Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came out to him, along with Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder.

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