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OET (OET-RV)When the chief commander returned to the Assyrian king, he discovered that they’d pulled out of Lakish and were now fighting against Livnah city.
Key: khaki:verbs.
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).
BrLXXΚαὶ ἐπέστρεψε Ῥαψάκης, καὶ εὗρε τὸν βασιλέα Ἀσσυρίων πολεμοῦντα ἐπὶ Λοβνὰ, ὅτι ἤκουσεν ὅτι ἀπῇρεν ἐκ Λαχίς. (Kai epestrepse Ɽapsakaʸs, kai heure ton basilea Assuriōn polemounta epi Lobna, hoti aʸkousen hoti apaʸren ek Laⱪis. )
BrTrSo Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he had departed from Lachis.
ULTAnd the chief commander returned, and he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that he pulled out fromfrom Lachish.
USTThe official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria and his army had left the city of Lachish, and that they were attacking Libnah, which was a nearby city. So the official went there to report to him what had happened in Jerusalem.
BSBWhen the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found [the king] fighting against Libnah. §
MSBWhen the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found [the king] fighting against Libnah. §
NETWhen the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning.
LSVAnd the chief of the butlers turns back and finds the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he has heard that he has journeyed from Lachish.
FBVThe Assyrian army commander left and went back to join the king of Assyria, having heard the king had left Lachish and was attacking Libnah.
T4TThe official from Assyria found out that the King of Assyria and his army had left Lachish city, and that they were attacking Libnah, which is a nearby city. So the official went there to report to him what had happened in Jerusalem.
BBESo the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah, for it had come to his ears that he had gone away from Lachish.
JPSSo Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
ASVSo Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
DRAAnd Rabsaces returned, and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachis.
YLTAnd the chief of the butlers turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.
DrbyAnd Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
RVSo Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
SLTAnd Rabshakeh will turn back and find the king of Assur warring against Libnah: for he heard that he removed from Lachish.
WbstrSo Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
KJB-1769¶ So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
KJB-1611¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for hee had heard that he was departed from Lachish. (¶ So Rabshakehreturned,andfoundthekingofAssyriawarringagainstLibnah:forhehadheardthathewasdepartedfromLachish.)
GnvaSo Rabshakeh returned, and founde the King of Asshur fighting against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. (So Rabshakeh returned, and found the King of Asshur fighting against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. )
ClVgReversus est ergo Rabsaces, et invenit regem Assyriorum expugnantem Lobnam: audierat enim quod recessisset de Lachis. (Returned it_is therefore Rabsaces, and he_found the_king AssyriorumexpugnantemLobnam: listenerat because that recessisset from/about Lachis. )
19:8 Sennacherib had dispatched his officers and forces to Jerusalem while he was attacking Lachish (18:14, 17). He had now moved eight miles to the northeast, to Libnah.
(Some words not found in UHB: and,returned great//chief/captain שָׁקֵה and,found DOM king ʼAshshūr fighting on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Liⱱnāh that/for/because/then/when heard that/for/because/then/when left out_of,Lachish )
Alternate translation: “the official from Assyria in charge under the king”
(Occurrence 0) found the king of Assyria fighting
(Some words not found in UHB: and,returned great//chief/captain שָׁקֵה and,found DOM king ʼAshshūr fighting on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Liⱱnāh that/for/because/then/when heard that/for/because/then/when left out_of,Lachish )
Alternate translation: “discovered that the Assyrian army was fighting”
(Some words not found in UHB: and,returned great//chief/captain שָׁקֵה and,found DOM king ʼAshshūr fighting on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in Liⱱnāh that/for/because/then/when heard that/for/because/then/when left out_of,Lachish )
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).
