Grandeur

^{Isaiah 36 1} In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. ² Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman's Field, ³ Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him"...

"Many workers I can give you," says one officer to another. "Behold, we hold all the cards in this dark world of ours, there is nothing but our numbers, resources, and domination. We are the lords of this domain."

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