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JPSThus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah beguile you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand;
ASVThus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
DRAThus saith the king: Let not Ezechias deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of my hand.
YLTthus said the king, Let not Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you out of his hand;
DrbyThus says the king: Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of the [king's] hand.
RVThus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
WbstrThus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
KJB-1769Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: (Thus saith/says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand: )
KJB-1611Thus sayth the king, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you, for he shall not be able to deliuer you out of his hand: (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
BshpsThus sayth the king: Let not Hezekia beguile you, for he shal not be able to deliuer you out of myne hande: (Thus saith/says the king: Let not Hezekia beguile you, for he shall not be able to deliver you out of mine hande:)
GnvaThus sayth the King, Let not Hezekiah deceiue you: for he shall not be able to deliuer you out of mine hand. (Thus saith/says the King, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of mine hand. )
CvdlThus sayeth the kynge: Let not Ezechias disceaue you, for he is not able to delyuer you fro my hade: (Thus sayeth the kynge: Let not Ezechias deceive you, for he is not able to deliver you from my hade:)
WyclThe kyng seith these thingis, Ezechie disceyue not you, for he may not delyuere you fro myn hond; (The king saith/says these things, Ezechie disceyue not you, for he may not deliver you from mine hond;)
LuthSo spricht der König: Laßt euch Hiskia nicht aufsetzen; denn er vermag euch nicht zu erretten von meiner Hand. (So says the/of_the king: Laßt you Hiskia not aufsetzen; because he vermag you not to erretten from my Hand.)
ClVgHæc dicit rex: Non vos seducat Ezechias: non enim poterit eruere vos de manu mea:[fn] (This dicit rex: Non you seducat Ezechias: not/no because poterit eruere you about by_hand mea: )
18.29Non vos, etc. Rabsacis accusatio Ezechiæ testimonium est, quod captis videlicet urbibus in Domino confisus sit: et confortavit populum ut in Domino speraret. Unde Rabsaces destruere vult quæ ille construxit, et dicit ad populum: Non seducat vos Ezechias, et non vobis tribuat fiduciam super Domino Deo vestro. RAB. Ostendit harum civitatum sive gentium diis servisse Samaritas, etc., usque ad ut noster vertit interpres.
18.29Non vos, etc. Rabsacis accusatio Ezechiæ testimony it_is, that captis videlicet urbibus in Master confisus let_it_be: and confortavit the_people as in Master speraret. Unde Rabsaces destruere vult which ille construxit, and dicit to the_people: Non seducat you Ezechias, and not/no to_you tribuat fiduciam over Master Deo vestro. RAB. Ostendit harum civitatum if/or gentium diis servisse Samaritas, etc., until to as noster vertit interpres.
(Some words not found in UHB: thus he/it_had_said the=king not deceive to/for=you_all Ḩizqiyyāh that/for/because/then/when not he/it_would_be_able to,deliver DOM,you_all from,hand,him )
“my power” is metonymy for the ability of the king himself. Alternate translation: “from me” or “from the power of my army”
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).
