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You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

2 Kings 18:20 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી2 રાજાઓ ૧૮:૨૦
તું કહે છે, યુદ્ધને માટે સહયોગી મિત્રો અને પરાક્રમ અમારી પાસે છે તે તો માત્ર નકામી વાતો છે. કોના પર તું ભરોસો રાખે છે? કોણે તને મારી વિરુદ્ધ બંડ કરવાની હિંમત આપી છે?
हिन्दी2 राजाओं १८:२०
तू जो कहता है, कि मेरे यहाँ युद्ध के लिये युक्ति और पराक्रम है, वह तो केवल बात ही बात है । तू किस पर भरोसा रखता है कि तूने मुझसे बलवा किया है?

In context

18When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.

19Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

20You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

21Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

22But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

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