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 ==== Assyria Besieges Jerusalem (Isaiah 36-37) ==== ==== Assyria Besieges Jerusalem (Isaiah 36-37) ====
  
-Assyria has taken all the lands of Juday, save the capital, Jerusalem (Isaiah 36:​1). ​ A great army comes to the city, with a general named Rabshakeh (a type of Satan). ​ He meets with the diplomats outside the city (Isaiah 36:​2-3). ​ He challenges their position, their obstinate decision to keep a defense, tells them that Egypt will be no help, scoffs at their numbers, and blasphemes the name of the Lord (Isaiah 36:4-10).+Assyria has taken all the lands of Judah, save the capital, Jerusalem (Isaiah 36:​1). ​ A great army comes to the city, with a general named Rabshakeh (a type of Satan). ​ He meets with the diplomats outside the city (Isaiah 36:​2-3). ​ He challenges their position, their obstinate decision to keep a defense, tells them that Egypt will be no help, scoffs at their numbers, and blasphemes the name of the Lord (Isaiah 36:4-10).
  
 The diplomats from Jerusalem ask the general to speak in the Syrian tongue so that the people behind them listening from the city walls won't hear them (Isaiah 36:​11). ​ Rabshakeh continues speaking in the language of the Jews, and actually starts yelling, so the audience can hear him (Isaiah 36:12-13). The diplomats from Jerusalem ask the general to speak in the Syrian tongue so that the people behind them listening from the city walls won't hear them (Isaiah 36:​11). ​ Rabshakeh continues speaking in the language of the Jews, and actually starts yelling, so the audience can hear him (Isaiah 36:12-13).
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