2tn Heb “and his face was for war against Jerusalem.”

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3tn Heb “the waters of the springs.”

4tn Heb “and they closed up all the springs and the stream that flows in the midst of the land.” Here אָרֶץ (’arets, “land”) does not refer to the entire land, but to a smaller region like a district.

5tn Heb “land, saying.”

6tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

7tn Heb “strengthened himself and built.”

8tn Heb “and outside the wall another one.”

9sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

10tn Heb “and he placed officers of war over the people.”

11tn Heb “he spoke to their heart[s].”

12tn Or perhaps, “and don’t be discouraged.”

13tn Heb “for with us [is] a greater [one] than with him.”

14tn Heb “With him is an arm of flesh.”

15tn Or “people.”

16tn Heb “servants.”

17tn Heb “all Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

18tn Heb “On what are you trusting that [you] are living during the siege in Jerusalem.”

19tn Heb “hand.”

20tn Heb “Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to die by hunger and thirst, saying, ‘The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria’?’

21tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.

22tn Heb “his”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

23tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 14, 15), but in this context the term does not necessarily refer to Sennacherib’s ancestors, but to his predecessors on the Assyrian throne.

24tn Heb “hand.”

25tn Heb “hand.”

26tn Heb “how much less.”

27tn The verb is plural, suggesting that the preceding אֱלֹהֵיכֶם (’elohekhem) be translated “your gods,” rather than “your God.”

28tn Heb “his”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

29tn Heb “spoke against.”

30tn Heb “and speaking against him, saying.”

31tn Heb “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who did not rescue their people from my hand, so the god of Hezekiah will not rescue his people from my hand.”

32tn Or “an angel.”

33tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

34tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”

35tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”

36tn Heb “and from the hand of all.”

37tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and he led him from all around.” However, the present translation assumes an emendation to וַיָּנַח לָהֶם מִסָּבִיב (vayyanakh lahem missaviv, “and he gave rest to them from all around”). See 2 Chr 15:15 and 20:30.

38tn Or perhaps, “offerings.”

39tn Heb “lifted up in the eyes of.”

40tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying.”

41tn Heb “and he spoke to him and a sign he gave to him.”

42tn Heb “but not according to the benefit [given] to him did Hezekiah repay, for his heart was high, and there was anger against him and against Judah and Jerusalem.”

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43tn Heb “and Hezekiah humbled himself in the height of his heart, he and the residents of Jerusalem, and the anger of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.”

44tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and shields and all the desirable items.” The present translation assumes an emendation of מָגִנִּים (maginnim, “shields”) to מִגְדָּנִים (migdanim, “precious items”). See v. 23.

45tn Heb “and stalls for all beasts and beasts, and flocks for the stalls.” The repetition of בְהֵמָה (b˙hemah, “beast”) here indicates various kinds of livestock.

46tn Heb “and cities he made for himself.”

47sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

48tn Heb “and when the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire concerning the sign which was in the land, [arrived].”

49tn Heb “to know all [that was] in his heart.”

50tn Heb “and the rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his faithful acts, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel.”

51tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

52tn Heb “and honor they did to him in his death, all Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.”