Isaiah 36:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

How then will you turn away one captain of the least of my master's servants and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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  • Isa 10:8 : 8 For he says, Are not my princes altogether kings?
  • Isa 20:5 : 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their hope, and of Egypt their boast.
  • Isa 30:2-5 : 2 Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! 3 Therefore, the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. 4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes. 5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
  • Isa 30:7 : 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
  • Isa 30:16-17 : 16 But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore you shall flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift. 17 One thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee: until you are left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
  • Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, both he who helps will fall, and he who is helped will fall down, and they all will fail together.
  • Isa 36:6 : 6 Indeed, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on, it will pierce his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
  • Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Deut 17:16 : 16 But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, 'You shall not return that way again.'
  • 2 Kgs 18:24 : 24 How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
  • Prov 21:31 : 31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but safety is of the LORD.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:19-25
    7 verses
    96%

    19Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which you trust?

    20You say (but they are only vain words) I have counsel and strength for war. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

    21Now behold, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans, will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

    22But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God, is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

    23Now therefore, please give pledges 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.

    24How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master's servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

    25Have I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

  • Isa 36:4-8
    5 verses
    83%

    4And Rabshakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this in which you trust?

    5I say that your words are empty: I have counsel and strength for war. Now in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

    6Indeed, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on, it will pierce his hand. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

    7But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not He whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?

    8Now therefore, I urge you, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them.

  • Isa 31:1
    77%

    1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help; and rely on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the LORD!

  • Isa 36:10
    76%

    10Have I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.

  • Jer 37:7
    74%

    7'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt, to their own land.

  • Isa 37:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

    11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered?

  • Isa 30:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

    3Therefore, the strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

  • 2 Chr 32:10
    74%

    10Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

  • Jer 2:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

    37Yes, you shall go forth from him, with your hands upon your head: for the LORD has rejected your confidences, and you shall not prosper in them.

  • 2 Chr 16:8
    73%

    8Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a large army, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand.

  • 2 Kgs 19:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

    11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by utterly destroying them: and shall you be delivered?

  • Isa 31:3
    72%

    3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, both he who helps will fall, and he who is helped will fall down, and they all will fail together.

  • Isa 36:18
    72%

    18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

  • Isa 36:15
    72%

    15Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Chr 32:15
    71%

    15Now therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or persuade you in this manner, nor believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand and from the hand of my fathers, how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?

  • Jer 46:9
    71%

    9Come up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men come forth: the Ethiopians and the Libyans, who handle the shield; and the Lydians, who handle and bend the bow.

  • Isa 30:16
    71%

    16But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore you shall flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

  • 2 Kgs 7:6
    71%

    6For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

  • Jer 42:15
    71%

    15And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, you remnant of Judah; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If you wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there;

  • Deut 17:16
    71%

    16But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, 'You shall not return that way again.'

  • Jer 12:5
    70%

    5If you have run with the footmen and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan?

  • Isa 45:14
    70%

    14Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours: they shall follow you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall bow down to you, they shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is with you; and there is no other, there is no God.

  • Isa 37:24
    70%

    24By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and have said, By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees: and I will enter the height of its border, the forest of its Carmel.

  • Deut 20:1
    70%

    1When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and a people more than you, do not be afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Ezek 17:15
    70%

    15But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Shall he prosper? Shall he escape who does such things? Or shall he break the covenant and be delivered?

  • 2 Kgs 6:15
    70%

    15And when the servant of the man of God arose early, and went out, behold, an army surrounded the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! what shall we do?

  • Ps 20:7
    70%

    7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

  • Ezek 26:10
    70%

    10Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you; your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached.

  • Isa 37:6
    70%

    6And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says the LORD, Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

  • 2 Kgs 7:13
    70%

    13And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray you, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even like all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.

  • Exod 14:7
    70%

    7And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over each of them.

  • 2 Kgs 18:30
    69%

    30Nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be handed over to the king of Assyria.

  • 2 Sam 19:36
    69%

    36Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

  • Jer 2:18
    69%

    18And now what do you have to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what do you have to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

  • Jer 46:25
    69%

    25The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all who trust in him: