God diverges from his prophecy to Isaiah about Jerusalem to speak about Shebna, a traitorous official in the court of King Hezekiah. This was a divine commission to Isaiah to confront Shebna, the treasurer who was king Hezekiah’s principal financial officer of the court. Isaiah uses this statement referring to Shebna’s position contemptuously: “this treasurer, over the house” that is, prime minister, which was a high position frequently filled by relatives of the ruling monarch (II Kings 15:5; II Chronicles 26:21). When Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, Shebna was one of those who was sure the city would fall and he sought to ingratiate himself with the “conquering” Assyrians. Shebna wrote a note declaring that he and his party were willing to submit to the Assyrians but Hezekiah and his party were not. He then shot it by arrow over the city walls to Sennacherib. Shebna hoped to be appointed governor of Jerusalem after it was conquered. Shebna was about to be disposed from his high office and exiled. The spirit of Satan, which will dominate the Antichrist, is the same spirit that dominated Shebna. The Lord declared that when He thrust Shebna down from his post, He would summon His servant: Eliakim (whose name means that “God shall establish”) was appointed.
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