I get the notion that the Rabshakeh "appears" to be telling Hezekiah thatSounds about right to me. I don't think it is the first recorded case of outsiders misunderstanding the true worship of YHWH and mocking a caricature or straw man version of it. It certainly isn't the last. But then the chief butler's misunderstanding is not surprising since his culture presumably had no concept of a god who should be worshipped only at one single sanctuary. But this is what YHWH had asked for, at least according to the Torah, and was the attested practice from the time of the Exodus at least until Solomon's day, although the location of the central sanctuary varied from time to time.
because Hezekiah has AFFRONTED Yahweh-Elohim by tearing down Yahweh's altars
and high places that Yahweh has sent the Assyrians to punish him, and that
God will NOT aide him against Assyria. Any other interpretations out there ?
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