Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered their land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?' — the Rab-shakeh marshals comparative religious argument: no national deity has successfully resisted Assyrian conquest. The implicit argument: the LORD is merely one god among many, and no god has proven effective against Assyria. This challenge demands enumeration of the gods the Rab-shakeh next cites.

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