2 Kings 19:11

19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ¹  Do you really think you will be rescued? ² 

2 Kings 19:22

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted, ³ 

and looked so arrogantly? ⁴ 

At the Holy One of Israel! ⁵ 

2 Kings 20:3

20:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ⁶  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ⁷  and how I have carried out your will.” ⁸  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁹ 

2 Kings 20:15

20:15 Isaiah ¹⁰  asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything ¹¹  in my treasuries.”

2 Kings 21:15

21:15 because they have done evil in my sight ¹²  and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

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¹ tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”

² tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”

³ tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”

⁴ tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”

⁵ sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.

⁶ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

⁷ tn Heb “and with a complete heart.”

⁸ tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

⁹ tn Heb “wept with great weeping.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “there was nothing I did not show them.”

¹² tn Heb “in my eyes.”