Shebna
Family: Judah · Role: treasurer over the house · First appears: Isaiah 22
In Isaiah 22, Shebna serves as treasurer over the house when Isaiah is sent to address him on behalf of God. God declares that he will be carried away captive, die in a distant country, and be driven from his station: “And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.”
In Isaiah 36, Shebna appears as the scribe alongside Eliakim and Joah before Rabshakeh, asking him to speak in the Syrian language and hearing his challenge to Hezekiah. Shebna then returns to Hezekiah with the others, their clothes rent, and reports Rabshakeh’s words. In Isaiah 37, Hezekiah sends Shebna with Eliakim and the elders of the priests to seek Isaiah’s prophetic help.
Relationship record
Life events
- God declares Shebna will be carried away captive, die abroad, and lose his office.(Isaiah 22)
- With: God
- “Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house. And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.”
- Hezekiah’s officials returned distressed and reported Rabshakeh’s words to him.(Isaiah 36)
- Hezekiah sent Eliakim and Shebna to seek Isaiah’s prophetic help.(Isaiah 37)
Isaiah 22
- judge: God “Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house. And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.”
- with Isaiah (Isaiah is instructed to address Shebna.) “Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,”
Isaiah 36
- with Rabshakeh (interaction) “Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.”
- commander: Rabshakeh “Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder. And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?”
- with Hezekiah (reported Rabshakeh’s words to Hezekiah) “Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.”
Isaiah 37
- sender: Hezekiah “And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.”
- with Isaiah (Shebna, together with Eliakim, delivered Hezekiah's message to Isaiah.) “And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.