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Look! I’m going to cause an attitude[a] to grow within him so that he’ll hear a rumor and return to his own territory, where I’ll make him die by the sword in his own land!”’”

Sennacherib Defies God(A)

So Rab-shakeh returned and found the king of Assyria at war with Libnah, because Rab-shakeh had heard that the king had left Lachish. When he heard that it was being said about King Tirhakah of Ethiopia,[b] “Look! He has come out to attack you!” he again sent messengers to Hezekiah.

The messengers were told,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:7 Or to bring a spirit
  2. 2 Kings 19:9 Lit. Cush

Listen! When he hears a certain report,(A) I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.(B)’”

When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(C) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.(D)

Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[a] was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:9 That is, the upper Nile region