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BSB “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
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WEB Sennacherib king of Assyria says, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?
NET “This is what King Sennacherib of Assyria says: ‘Why are you so confident that you remain in Jerusalem while it is under siege?
LSV “Thus said Sennacherib king of Asshur: On what are you trusting and abiding in the bulwark in Jerusalem?
FBV “This is what Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says. What are you going to trust in to help you survive when I come to attack Jerusalem?
T4T “I am Sennacherib, the great king of Assyria, and this is what I say: 'While you are staying in Jerusalem, my soldiers are surrounding the city. So why [RHQ] are you so confident?
LEB “Thus says Sennacherib the king of Assyria: ‘On what are you relying that you are dwelling in siege works in Jerusalem?
BBE Sennacherib, king of Assyria, says, In what are you placing your hope, waiting here in the walled town of Jerusalem?
MOF No MOF 2CH book available
JPS 'Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria: Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in Jerusalem?
ASV Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in Jerusalem?
DRA Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: In whom do you trust, that you sit still besieged in Jerusalem?
YLT 'Thus said Sennacherib king of Asshur, On what are ye trusting and abiding in the bulwark, in Jerusalem?
DBY Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria: On what do ye rely that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
RV Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the siege in Jerusalem?
WBS Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, On what do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
KJB Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?[fn]
(Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye/you_all trust, that ye/you_all abide in the siege in Yerusalem?)
BB Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: wherin do ye trust O ye that dwell in Hierusalem which is besieged?
(Thus saith Sennacherib king of the Assyrians: wherin do ye/you_all trust O ye/you_all that dwell in Yerusalem which is besieged?)
GNV Thus saith Saneherib the King of Asshur, Wherein doe ye trust, that ye will remaine in Ierusalem, during the siege?
(Thus saith Saneherib the King of Asshur, Wherein do ye/you_all trust, that ye/you_all will remain in Yerusalem, during the siege? )
CB Thus sayeth Sennacherib ye kynge of Assur: Wherin put ye youre trust ye that dwell in the beseged Ierusalem?
(Thus sayeth Sennacherib ye/you_all king of Assur: Wherin put ye/you_all your(pl) trust ye/you_all that dwell in the beseged Yerusalem?)
WYC and seide, Sennacherib, the kyng of Assiriens, seith these thingis, In whom han ye trist, and sitten bisegid in Jerusalem?
(and said, Sennacherib, the king of Assiriens, saith/says these things, In whom have ye/you_all trist, and sit bisegid in Yerusalem?)
LUT So spricht Sanherib, der König zu Assur: Wes vertröstet ihr euch, die ihr wohnet in dem belagerten Jerusalem?
(So spricht Sanherib, the king to Assur: Wes vertröstet her you, the her wohnet in to_him belagerten Yerusalem?)
CLV Hæc dicit Sennacherib rex Assyriorum: In quo habentes fiduciam sedetis obsessi in Jerusalem?
(This dicit Sennacherib rex Assyriorum: In quo habentes fiduciam sedetis obsessi in Yerusalem? )
BRN Thus says Sennacherim king of the Assyrians, On what do ye trust, that ye will remain in the siege in Jerusalem?
BrLXX οὕτως λέγει Σενναχηρὶμ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων, ἐπὶ τί ὑμεῖς πεποίθατε, καὶ καθήσεσθε ἐν τῇ περιοχῇ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ;
(houtōs legei Sennaⱪaʸrim basileus Assuriōn, epi ti humeis pepoithate, kai kathaʸsesthe en taʸ perioⱪaʸ en Hierousalaʸm; )
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Isaiah 36-37; 2 Kings 18-19; 2 Chronicles 32
The harrowing experience of the attack on Judah by King Sennacherib of Assyria during Hezekiah’s reign is recorded by three different writers of Scripture and even by Sennacherib himself. Many scholars also suspect that this event formed the basis for Herodotus’s story regarding an army of mice eating the bow strings of the Assyrian army during their campaign against the Egyptians (Histories, 2.141). The origins of this event stretch back into the reign of Hezekiah’s father Ahaz, who enticed the Assyrians to attack Israel and Aram in exchange for making Judah a vassal of Assyria (2 Kings 16-17; 2 Chronicles 28; Isaiah 7-8; also see “The Final Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel” map). Judah continued to be a vassal of Assyria through the early part of Hezekiah’s reign, but Hezekiah also quietly made extensive preparations to throw off the yoke of Assyria one day (2 Kings 18:1-12; 1 Chronicles 4:39-43; 2 Chronicles 29-31; also see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Hezekiah also appears to have been hoping for support from Babylon and Egypt regarding his efforts to revolt against Assyria’s rule, but the prophet Isaiah warned Judah against placing their hopes in these foreign powers (Isaiah 30:1-5; 31:1-3; 39:1-8; 40:10-15; 2 Kings 20:12-19). After a few years spent quashing rebellion among the Babylonians, the Kassites, and the Medes in the east, Sennacherib turned his sights westward and began a campaign to subdue the various vassal nations that were refusing to submit to Assyria’s rule any longer. He first reconquered the Phoenician cities of Sidon and Tyre and then moved south to Philistia. He subdued Joppa, Beth-dagon, Bene-berak, and Azor and then moved to capture the cities of the Shephelah, which guarded the entrances to the valleys leading into the central hill country of Judah. While Sennacherib was attacking Lachish he sent his officers to demand Hezekiah’s surrender. This may be the Assyrian advance upon Jerusalem from the north described in Isaiah 10:28-32, but this is not certain (see “Assyria Advances on Jerusalem” map). Hezekiah sent officers back to Sennacherib with gold and silver taken from Temple and the royal treasury, but he would not surrender. The officers then traveled to Libnah to meet with Sennacherib, for he gone to fight there by that time. In the meantime King Tirhakah of Cush, who was ruling over Egypt at this time, came to attack Sennacherib, so Sennacherib sent his officials back to Hezekiah with a message that Jerusalem would be taken if he resisted. Hezekiah laid the letter from the officials before the Lord and prayed, and the Lord sent word through the prophet Isaiah that Jerusalem would not be taken. Then that very night the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers (probably those with Sennacherib fighting the Egyptians), and Sennacherib went back to Assyria. There while he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, Sennacherib’s sons killed him and fled to Ararat (see “Ararat” map).