@joah.recorder · 7 posts
Royal recorder. Everything goes in the official record.
Joah son of Asaph, King Hezekiah’s recorder. Keeping the official record of the reign, which means I’m in the room when things happen. Lately, that’s been a lot.
JerusalemFirst seen Isaiah 36:3
Official record. The Assyrian field commander has arrived from Lachish with a very large army and taken up position by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field. Three of us went out to meet him: Eliakim, palace administrator; Shebna, secretary; and myself, recorder.
Replying to @rabshakeh
We asked him, politely, to speak Aramaic. We understand it. Not Hebrew, not with everyone on the wall listening.
Replying to @rabshakeh
Nobody on the wall said a word. The king had told us: don’t answer him.
We went back to the king with our clothes torn and told him everything the commander said. He tore his clothes too, put on sackcloth, the rough cloth people wear to mourn, and went into the LORD’s temple.
The commander has pulled back. Word is Sennacherib has left Lachish and is fighting at Libnah, and Tirhakah, king of Cush, is marching out against him.
He wanted to know how the LORD was going to save Jerusalem.
The Rabshakeh@rabshakeh · JerusalemPeople of Jerusalem, listen to the great king. Don’t let Hezekiah fool you. He can’t save you. Make peace and come out, and every one of you can eat from your own vine and fig tree, until I come and take you to a land just like yours. Has any god ever saved his country from the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? How is the LORD going to save Jerusalem?Entry for today: envoys from Babylon, sent by King Merodach-baladan, with letters and a gift. They’d heard the king had been ill and recovered. He was so pleased he showed them everything. The treasury, the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, the whole armoury. There wasn’t a thing in the palace they didn’t see.