We trust in the Lord our God Probably Rab-shakeh knew something about the character of Egypt and her ability and likeliness to help. -Rahab that sitteth still" (Isaiah 30:7 R.V.) was a name probably not undeserved. But now he enters on a matter which he does not understand. He had heard no doubt of the many altars and high places which Hezekiah had swept away in the beginning of his reign, and he might have been told by some, who murmured at their removal, and urged that Jehovah was really worshipped at them, that the king had put down many altars of the true God, and for a fancy of his own had ordered all his subjects to worship in Jerusalem. But he did not, probably could not, comprehend that the law of Jehovah had long before ordained that when His worship should be brought to its true form among His people, there should be only one temple for the whole land. Hence his argument is -How can you expect Jehovah to help you, when you have been breaking down His shrines and limiting His worship to a single spot"?

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