36:1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, 1 King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
36:4 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? 2
36:13 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, 3 “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.
37:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. 4 37:9 The king 5 heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia 6 was marching out to fight him. 7 He again sent 8 messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:
1 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
2 tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”
3 tn The Hebrew text includes “and he said.”
4 tn Heb “and the chief adviser returned and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Heb “Cush” (so NASB); NIV, NCV “the Cushite king of Egypt.”
7 tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’”
8 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.”