Isaiah 37:12-13

37:12 Were the nations whom my predecessors 1  destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? 2  37:13 Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the kings of Lair, 3  Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”

1 tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “forefathers”; NCV “ancestors.”

2 tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”

3 sn Lair was a city located in northeastern Babylon. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 235.