“Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?”
The Rabshakeh again enumerates the conquered nations and their failed gods, repeating the examples of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, and Samaria. The repetition is intensional, designed to establish through reiteration the pattern of divine impotence. The oracle demonstrates that the Rabshakeh trusts in the power of repeated assertion and accumulated examples to persuade.
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