Isaiah 36:19

New English Translation

¹⁹Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim?^[a] Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria from my power?^[b]

Isaiah 36:19 tn The rhetorical questions suggest the answer, “Nowhere. They seem to have disappeared in the face of Assyria’s might.”
Isaiah 36:19 tn Heb “that they rescued Samaria from my hand?” But this gives the impression that the gods of Sepharvaim were responsible for protecting Samaria, which is obviously not the case. The implied subject of the plural verb “rescued” must be the generic “gods of the nations/lands” (vv. 18, 20).

New English Translation (NET)