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Sennacherib Attacks

36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,[a] King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander,[b] along with a very[c] 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:1 The Heb. name Hezekiah is usu. spelled Hizqiyah in 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT spell the name Hizqiyahu.
  2. Isaiah 36:2 Or sent Rab-shakeh
  3. Isaiah 36:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack very