1亞述王攻打猶大（王下18:13~18；代下32:1~9）希西家王十四年，亞述王西拿基立上來攻擊猶大所有的堅固城，並且把城攻取。
1Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them.
2亞述王從拉吉差派拉伯沙基，帶領大軍往耶路撒冷，到希西家王那裡去。他站在上池的水溝旁，就是在往漂布地之大路上的時候，
2The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
3希勒家的兒子管家以利亞敬、書記舍伯那和亞薩的兒子史官約亞，都出來見他。
3Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.
4拉伯沙基的恐嚇（王下18:19~27）拉伯沙基對他們說：“你們去對希西家說：‘亞述大王這樣說：你所倚靠的算得是甚麼倚靠呢？
4Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
5我說：你打仗所用的謀略和能力，不過是虛話罷了。你到底倚靠誰，以致你背叛我呢？
5I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
6看哪！你所倚靠的埃及，是那壓傷的蘆葦杖；人若倚靠它，它就會插進他的手，把手刺透。埃及王法老對所有倚靠他的人，也是這樣。
6Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
7你若對我說：我們倚靠耶和華我們的 神，這 神所有的邱壇和祭壇豈不是都給希西家廢去了，他還對猶大和耶路撒冷的人說：你們只要在這祭壇面前敬拜嗎？
7But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”
8現在你可以與我的主人亞述王打賭：我給你二千匹馬，看你這一方面能否派出足夠騎馬的人來。
8Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
9若不能，你怎能擊退我主的臣僕中最小的軍長呢？你竟倚靠埃及的戰車和馬兵嗎？
9How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
10現在，我上來攻打這地，要把這地毀滅，豈沒有耶和華的意思嗎？耶和華曾對我說：你要上去攻打這地，把它毀滅。’”
10Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
11以利亞敬、舍伯那和約亞對拉伯沙基說：“請你用亞蘭語對你的僕人說話，因為我們聽得懂；不要用猶大語對我們說話，免得城牆上的人民聽見。”
11Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
12但拉伯沙基說：“我主差派我來，只是對你和你的主說這些話嗎？不也是對那些坐在城牆上，要和你們一同吃自己的糞、喝自己的尿的人說嗎？”
12But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
13勸降的話（王下18:28~37；代下32:9~19）於是拉伯沙基站著，用猶大語大聲呼喊說：“你們要聽亞述大王的話，
13Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
14王這樣說：‘你們不要被希西家欺騙了，因為他決不能拯救你們；
14Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
15也不要給希西家說服你們倚靠耶和華，說：耶和華必定拯救我們，這城也必不交在亞述王的手中。’
15Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
16不要聽希西家的話，因為亞述王這樣說：‘你們要與我和好，出來向我投降，這樣各人就可以吃自己葡萄樹和無花果樹的果子，也可以喝自己井裡的水；
16Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
17等到我來的時候，就會把你們領到一個與你們本地一樣的地方；就是一個有五穀和新酒的地方，一個有糧食和葡萄園的地方。
17until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18你們要小心，免得希西家慫恿你們說：耶和華必拯救我們。列國的神有哪一位曾拯救自己的國土脫離亞述王的手呢？
18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
19哈馬和亞珥拔的神在哪裡呢？西法瓦音的神在哪裡呢？他們曾拯救撒瑪利亞脫離我的手嗎？
19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
20這些國所有的神中，有哪一位曾拯救自己的國土脫離我的手呢？難道耶和華能拯救耶路撒冷脫離我的手嗎？’”
20Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
21眾人都默不作聲，一句話也沒有回答他，因為王的吩咐說：“不要回答他。”
21But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
22於是希勒家的兒子管家以利亞敬、書記舍伯那和亞薩的兒子史官約亞，都撕裂衣服，來到希西家面前，把拉伯沙基的話告訴了他。
22Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.