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Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander,[a] along with a very[b] large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the field commander stopped at the aqueduct at the Upper Pool on the road to Laundryman’s Field, Hilkiah’s son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph’s son Joah, the recorder, went out to him.

The field commander told them:

“Tell Hezekiah, king of Judah,[c] ‘This is what the mighty king, the king of Assyria, has to say: What is this “guarantee” that makes you yourself[d] rely on it?[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:2 Or sent Rab-shakeh
  2. Isaiah 36:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack very
  3. Isaiah 36:4 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsaa corrector deleted king of Judah; MT LXX lack king of Judah
  4. Isaiah 36:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack yourself
  5. Isaiah 36:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack on it