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Isaiah 37:6-8
International Standard Version
Isaiah 37:6-8
International Standard Version
Isaiah Responds to Hezekiah
6 “Here is what to tell your master,” Isaiah told them. “This is what the Lord says: ‘Don’t be afraid of the words you’ve heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have insulted me. 7 Watch this! I’m going to place an attitude[a] within him,[b] so that when he hears a certain report, he’ll return to his own country. Then I’ll have him cut down by the sword in his own land.”[c]
Sennacherib Retreats
8 So the field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, since he had heard that the king of Assyria[d] had left Lachish.
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- Isaiah 37:7 Or to put a spirit
- Isaiah 37:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read put a spirit in him
- Isaiah 37:7 So MT LXX 1QIsaa corrector; 1QIsaa lacks vss. 5-7
- Isaiah 37:8 Lit. that he
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