The Rabshakeh directly challenges religious faith in the LORD's ability to deliver, using the failure of other nations' gods to suggest the universal pattern of divine impotence before Assyrian power. The rhetorical question invites the listeners to draw the logical conclusion that Israel's God will likewise prove unable to help. The oracle shows the Rabshakeh engaging with religious claims not through refutation but through empirical examples of apparent divine failure. The strategy attempts to use historical precedent to undermine faith.

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