Discovery BoxIsaiah 37:9-10 
Context37:9 The king 1 heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia 2 was marching out to fight him. 3 He again sent 4 messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them: 37:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “Cush” (so NASB); NIV, NCV “the Cushite king of Egypt.”
3 tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’”
4 tn The Hebrew text has, “and he heard and he sent,” but the parallel in 2 Kgs 19:9 has וַיָּשָׁב וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayyashav vayyishlakh, “and he returned and he sent”), i.e., “he again sent.”
