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Come now, all of you,[a] make a bet with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you can furnish riders for them! How, then, can you repulse even one officer from[b] the least of my master’s officials, when you are depending for yourselves[c] on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 One other thing: have I really marched against this country to destroy it apart from the Lord’s direction?[d] The Lord himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to[e] destroy it.’”[f]

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  1. Isaiah 36:8 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads you (sing.)
  2. Isaiah 36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads one of
  3. Isaiah 36:9 So 1QIsaa; MT reads yourself
  4. Isaiah 36:10 1QIsaa MT lack ‘s direction
  5. Isaiah 36:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and
  6. Isaiah 36:10 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks The Lord himself ordered me, ‘March against this country to destroy it.’