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Isaiah 36:9

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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ASV

How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

KJV

How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאֵ֣יךְve.'Eikhand how?H349 →
תָּשִׁ֗יבta.Shivwill you turn backH7725 →
אֵ֠ת'et<obj.>H853 →
פְּנֵ֨יpe.Nei[the] face ofH6440 →
פַחַ֥תfa.Chat[the] governorH6346 →
אַחַ֛ד'a.Chad<of> one ofH259 →
עַבְדֵ֥י'av.Dei[the] servants ofH5650 →
אֲדֹנִ֖י'a.do.Nimaster myH113 →
הַקְטַנִּ֑יםhak.ta.Nim<the> littleH6996 →
וַתִּבְטַ֤חva.tiv.Tachand you have been relyingH982 →
לְךָ֙le.Kha<for> yourself
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
מִצְרַ֔יִםmitz.Ra.yimEgyptH4714 →
לְרֶ֖כֶבle.Re.khevfor chariotryH7393 →
וּלְפָרָשִֽׁים׃u.le.fa.ra.Shimand for horsemenH6571 →

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Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.1 Kings 10:28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.Isaiah 10:8“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.2 Kings 7:6For the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, horses, and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel must have hired the kings of the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us.”Isaiah 20:5Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.2 Kings 18:24For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?Proverbs 21:31A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.Isaiah 30:16–17“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.Isaiah 36:6Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.Isaiah 30:2–5They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.Isaiah 30:7Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.Isaiah 31:3But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.Deuteronomy 17:16But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’Isaiah 23:8Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?Isaiah 30:2They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.Isaiah 37:24Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.2 Chronicles 32:21and the LORD sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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