Isaiah 36:18

He warns against trusting Hezekiah's claim that Yahweh will deliver, citing other nations' fallen gods.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 36:15Neither 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.
• Isa 37:17–18Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
• Ps 92:5–7O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
• Isa 37:12–13Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
• Isa 36:10And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
• 2 Kgs 18:33–35Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
• 2 Kgs 19:12–13Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
• Ps 135:15–18The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
• Jer 10:10–12But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
• Ps 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
• Isa 37:10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Isa 36:7But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
• 2 Chr 32:13–17Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
• Hab 2:19–20Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
• Ps 115:2–8Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
• Dan 3:15Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
• Ps 135:5–6For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
• 2 Kgs 19:17–18Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
• Jer 10:3–5For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

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