A Sign Against Egypt and Cush

20 In the year that ^(A)the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to ^(B)Ashdod and fought against it and captured it—

¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent the ^(A)Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by ^(B)the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.

²⁹ For behold, ^(A)I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, ^(B)for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the Lord of hosts.’

³⁰ “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them:

²⁰ and ^(A)all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of ^(B)the land of Uz and all the kings of ^(C)the land of the Philistines (^(D)Ashkelon, ^(E)Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^(F)Ashdod);

¹⁷ These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a ^(A)guilt offering to the Lord: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,

The Philistines and the Ark

5 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from ^(A)Ebenezer to ^(B)Ashdod.