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  • A glance at the preceding chapters will show how the high military official, 'the rabshakeh,' or chief of the officers, shaped all his insolent and yet skilful mixture of threats and promises so as to demonstrate the vanity of trust in Egypt or in Jehovah, or in any but 'the great king.'

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • The rabshakeh had been sent from the main body of the Assyrian army, which was down at Lachish in the Philistine low country on the road to Egypt, in order to try to secure Jerusalem by promises and threats, since it was too important a post to leave in the rear, if

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

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