Islamic State video features Hebrew-speaking militant for the first time

JERUSALEM — The Islamic State's slick — and grisly — propaganda videos regularly feature militants who speak flawless Arabic or English or French.

Now, the Islamist group is using the language of the Jewish state. A video it released this week shows a masked militant speaking impeccable Hebrew as he praises a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis and threatens to eradicate Jews from the Holy Land.

It’s the first time the group has released a video in Hebrew, but the message has a now-familiar promise to perpetrate mass murder.

This has happened before. It resulted in the total destruction of the Assyrian army.

Isaiah 36:13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
14 “Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you;
15 ‘nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’
16 “Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
17 ‘until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
18 ‘Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
19 ‘Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
20 ‘Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”
21 But they dheld their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.”

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (pp. 696-697). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

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ISIS releases video in Hebrew with a â€œmessage to the Jews