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OET (OET-RV)From all the other countries, which of their gods was able to save their people, that might give confidence that Yahwehmight be able to rescue Yerushalem from the king’s power?”
Key: khaki:verbs, blue:Elohim, green:YHWH.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXXΤίς ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς θεοῖς τῶν γαιῶν, οἳ ἐξείλαντο τὰς γᾶς αὐτῶν ἐκ χειρός μου, ὅτι ἐξελεῖται Κύριος τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐκ χειρός μου; (Tis en pasi tois theois tōn gaiōn, hoi exeilanto tas gas autōn ek ⱪeiros mou, hoti exeleitai Kurios taʸn Hierousalaʸm ek ⱪeiros mou; )
BrTrWho is there among all the gods of the countries, who have delivered their countries out of my hand, that the Lord [fn]should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
WEBBEWho are they amongst all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”
NETWho among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the Lord rescue Jerusalem from my power?’ ”
LSVWho [are they] among all the gods of the lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that YHWH delivers Jerusalem out of my hand?”
FBVWhich one of all the gods of these countries has saved their land from me? How then could the Lord save Jerusalem from me?”
T4TNo, none of the gods of the countries that my army attacked rescued their people [RHQ] from me! So why do you think that Yahweh will rescue you people of Jerusalem from my power [MTY]?’ ”
BBEWho among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?
JPSWho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
ASVWho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
DRAWho are they among all the gods of the nations, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the Lord may deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
YLTWho [are they] among all the gods of the lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah doth deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'
DrbyWhich are they among all the [fn]gods of the countries, who have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
RVWho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? (Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Yerusalem out of my hand? )
SLTWho of all the gods of the lands who delivered their land out of my hand, that Jehovah shall deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
WbstrWho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
KJB-1769Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand? (Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliver Yerusalem out of mine hand? )
KJB-1611Who are they among all the gods of the countreys, that haue deliuered their countrey out of mine hand, that the LORD should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand? (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
GnvaWho are they among all the gods of the nations, that haue deliuered their lande out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliuer Ierusalem out of mine hand? (Who are they among all the gods of the nations, that have delivered their land out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Yerusalem out of mine hand? )
ClVgQuinam illi sunt in universis diis terrarum, qui eruerunt regionem suam de manu mea, ut possit eruere Dominus Jerusalem de manu mea? (Whyam them are in/into/on to_all godss the_world, who eruerunt country his_own from/about by_hand my, as can eruere Master Yerusalem from/about by_hand my? )
18:32-35TheLord will rescue us: The chief of staff continued his psychological taunting by asserting that the Lord was just like the gods of the other nations and could not save Judah. • Arpad was a city-state located northwest of Aleppo. Like Hamath, it was a hub of Aramean activity and is mentioned on other occasions in the Old Testament (see Isa 10:9; Jer 49:23).
(Occurrence 0) is there any god who has rescued his land from my power?
(Some words not found in UHB: who? in=all gods_of the,countries which/who delivered DOM land_of,their from,hand_of,my that/for/because/then/when deliver YHWHDOM Yerushalayim from,hand_of,my )
He asks this question for emphasis because they know the answer. Alternate translation: “No god has rescued his land from my power.”
(Some words not found in UHB: who? in=all gods_of the,countries which/who delivered DOM land_of,their from,hand_of,my that/for/because/then/when deliver YHWHDOM Yerushalayim from,hand_of,my )
“My power” is metonymy for the person whose has the power. Alternate translation: “from me”
(Occurrence 0) How could Yahweh save Jerusalem from my might?
(Some words not found in UHB: who? in=all gods_of the,countries which/who delivered DOM land_of,their from,hand_of,my that/for/because/then/when deliver YHWHDOM Yerushalayim from,hand_of,my )
He asks this question for emphasis because they know the answer. Alternate translation: “There is no way Yahweh can save Jerusalem from my might!”
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).
