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?’”
Isaiah 37:17-18
37:17 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! 4
37:18 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations 5 and their lands.
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.
4 tn Heb “Hear all the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”
5 tn The Hebrew text here has “all the lands,” but the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:17 has “the nations.”