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In reply, Isaiah responded to them, “Here’s how you’re to report to your master:

‘This is what the Lord says: “Never be afraid of the words that you have heard by which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Look! I’m going to cause an attitude[a] to grow within him so that he’ll hear a rumor and return to his own territory, where I’ll make him die by the sword in his own land!”’”

Sennacherib Defies God(A)

So Rab-shakeh returned and found the king of Assyria at war with Libnah, because Rab-shakeh had heard that the king had left Lachish.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:7 Or to bring a spirit

Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid(A) of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed(B) me. Listen! When he hears a certain report,(C) I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.(D)’”

When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(E) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.(F)

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