Catholic Public Domain Version
"Have any of the gods of the nations freed their land from the hand of the king of Assyria? "
— 2 Kings 18:33, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?”
“Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? ”
“Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?”
“Have any of the gods of the nations actually rescued his land from the power of the king of Assyria?”
“Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?”
“Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria?”
“Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?”
And do not let him give you faith in the Lord, saying: ‘The Lord will rescue and free us, and this city will not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.’
Do not choose to listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of the Assyrians: Do with me what is for your own good, and come out to me. And each one of you will eat from his own vine, and from his own fig tree. And you shall drink water from your own wells,
until I arrive and transfer you into a land, similar to your own land, a fruitful and fertile land of wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives and oil and honey. And you will live, and not die. Do not choose to listen to Hezekiah, who deceives you, saying: ‘The Lord will free us.’
Have any of the gods of the nations freed their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Where is the god of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Avva? Have they freed Samaria from my hand?
Which ones among all the gods of the lands have rescued their region from my hand, so that the Lord would be able to rescue Jerusalem from my hand?”
But the people were silent, and they did not respond at all to him. For indeed, they had received an instruction from the king that they should not respond to him.