“Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.”
The Rabshakeh's public address begins with an attempt to undermine confidence in Hezekiah's leadership, claiming that the king deceives the people with false promises of divine deliverance. The charge of deception is designed to drive a wedge between king and people. The assertion that Hezekiah cannot deliver creates doubt about both the king's credibility and his competence. The oracle shows the Rabshakeh's strategy of attacking leadership credibility as a prelude to breaking the will to resist.
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