8Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses —if you can put riders on them!
9For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
10So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
— Isaiah 36:8-10