“Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
The Rabshakeh enumerates specific examples of conquered nations and their failed gods: Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, and Samaria. The specificity of the examples gives weight to the argument; these are not abstract possibilities but historical facts. The oracle demonstrates the Rabshakeh's knowledge of regional history and his use of historical pattern to establish the futility of resistance. The enumeration suggests that Assyrian conquest is universal and inevitable, that all nations and all gods prove powerless before Assyrian might.
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