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Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

36 And this happened: In the fourteenth year[a] of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them. And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh[b] from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a large army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the field of the washer. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace,[c] came out to him, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 36:1 Literally “four ten year”
  2. Isaiah 36:2 Rabshekah is the title of a high Assyrian official
  3. Isaiah 36:3 Literally “was over the house”