Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

4 Kings 18:32-37 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

32. Till I come, and take you away to a land, like to your own land, a fruitful land, and plentiful in wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olives, and oil and honey, and you shall live, and not die. Hearken not to Ezechias, who deceiveth you, saying: The Lord will deliver us.

33. Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

34. Where is the god of Emath, end of Arphad? where is the god of Sepharvaim, of Ana, and of Ava? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

35. Who are they among all the gods of the nations, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

36. But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.

37. And Eliacim the son of Helcias, who was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Ezechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.