King James Version
Isaiah 36:9 in the King James Version says “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 fo...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 36 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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?”
Isaiah 36:9 · KJV
But 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?
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. pledges: or, hostages
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?
And 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.
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
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“How then wilt thou turn away”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the face”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“of the least”
H6996abbreviated, i.e., diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance)
“and put thy trust”
H982properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as h2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“for chariots”
H7393a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e., the upper millstone
“and for horsemen”
H6571a steed (as stretched out to a vehicle, not single nor for mounting ); also (by implication) a driver (in a chariot), i.e., (collectively) cavalry
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