2 Kings 18:25
Good News Translation
Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the LORD's help? The LORD himself told me to attack it and destroy it."

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.”

Contemporary English Version
Don't forget that it was the LORD who sent me here with orders to destroy your nation!

New American Bible
Did I come up to destroy this place without the LORD? The LORD himself said to me: Go up and destroy that land!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it.

Am I now.

2 Kings 19:6,22-37 And Isaias said to them: Thus shall you say to your master: Thus saith the Lord: Be not afraid for the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me. . . .

1 Kings 13:18 He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

2 Chronicles 35:21 But he sent messengers to him, saying: What have I to do with thee, O king of Juda? I come not against thee this day, but I fight against another house, to which God hath commanded me to go in haste: forbear to do against God, who is with me, lest he kill thee.

Isaiah 10:5,6 Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands. . . .

Amos 3:6 Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?

John 19:10,11 Pilate therefore saith to him: Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee? . . .

Context
Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem
24And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 25Is it without the will of the Lord that I am come up to this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me: Go up to this land, and destroy it.26Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to Rabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.…
Cross References
2 Kings 18:24
And how can you stand against one lord of the least of my master's servants? Dost thou trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

2 Kings 18:26
Then Eliacim, the son of Helcias, and Sobna, and Joahe, said to Rabsaces: We pray thee, speak to us, thy servants, in Syriac: for we understand that tongue: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the hearing of the people that are upon the wall.

2 Kings 24:3
And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;

2 Kings 18:24
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