I’m sure you have heard about what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries. They have destroyed them completely. So do you think you will be saved?

你总听说亚述诸王向列国所行的，乃是尽行灭绝，难道你还能得救吗？

看哪，你总听说亚述诸王向列国所行的是尽行灭绝，难道你能幸免吗？

看哪，你总听说亚述诸王向列国所行的是尽行灭绝，难道你能幸免吗？

你肯定听过亚述诸王扫灭列国的事，难道你能幸免吗？

看哪，你听过亚述列王怎样对付列国，把它们完全毁灭，你会得着解救吗？

你總聽說亞述諸王向列國所行的，乃是盡行滅絕，難道你還能得救嗎？

看哪，你總聽說亞述諸王向列國所行的是盡行滅絕，難道你能倖免嗎？

看哪，你總聽說亞述諸王向列國所行的是盡行滅絕，難道你能倖免嗎？

你肯定聽過亞述諸王掃滅列國的事，難道你能倖免嗎？

看哪，你聽過亞述列王怎樣對付列國，把它們完全毀滅，你會得著解救嗎？

看哪，你總聽說過亞述諸王怎樣將各地盡行毁滅歸神罷；難道你還能得援救麼？

亞述列王之待諸國、施行翦滅、爾既聞之、而爾能得免乎、

爾亦聞亞述前王至於今、皆以剪滅列國是務、而爾猶獲救乎。

亞述列王如何待列國、如何翦滅列國、爾亦必聞之、獨爾能得免乎、

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered?

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?

You know perfectly well what the kings of Assyria have done wherever they have gone. They have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way! Why should you be any different?

Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: They completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved?

Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered?

Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?

“ Lord, it’s true that the kings of Assyria have completely destroyed many nations and their lands.They have thrown the statues of the gods of those nations into the fire. And they have destroyed them. That’s because they weren’t really gods at all. They were nothing but statues made out of wood and stone. They were made by human hands.

‘ Aren’t all my commanders kings?’ he says.‘ I took over Kalno just as I took Carchemish. I took over Hamath just as I did Arpad. I took Samaria just as I did Damascus.My powerful hand grabbed hold of kingdoms whose people worship statues of gods. They had more gods than Jerusalem and Samaria did.I took over Samaria and its statues of gods. In the same way, I will take Jerusalem and its gods.’ ”

“‘ Don’t you know what I and the kings who ruled before me have done? Don’t you know what we’ve done to all the peoples of the other lands? Were the gods of those nations ever able to save their lands from my power?The kings who ruled before me destroyed many nations. Which one of the gods of those nations has been able to save his people from me? So how can your god save you from my power?

The king of Assyria marched into the whole land of Israel. He marched to Samaria and surrounded it for three years. From time to time he attacked it.Finally, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. It was in the ninth year of Hoshea. The king of Assyria took the Israelites away from their own land. He sent them off to Assyria. He made some of them live in Halah. He made others live in Gozan on the Habor River. And he made others live in the towns of the Medes.All of this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God. He had brought them up out of Egypt. He had brought them out from under the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. But they worshiped other gods.The Lord had driven out other nations to make room for Israel. But they followed the evil practices of those nations. They also followed the practices that the kings of Israel had started.The Israelites did things in secret against the Lord their God. What they did wasn’t right. They built high places for worship in all their towns. They built them at lookout towers. They also built them at cities that had high walls around them.They set up sacred stones. And they set up poles used to worship the female god named Asherah. They did that on every high hill and under every green tree.The Lord had driven out nations to make room for Israel. But the Israelites burned incense at every high place, just as those nations had done. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord very angry.