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Watch! I will put a spirit in him, so that when he hears certain news, he will return to his own land. There I will cause him to be killed.”

Then the herald went back. He heard that the king of Assyria had already left Lachish and was fighting against Libnah.

When Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush[a] had set out to fight against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:9 Cush is the ancient name for the territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. Called Ethiopia in Roman times, it included most of present-day Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia. The Cushite or Nubian kings were the pharaohs of Egypt at this time.