Holy Scripture

Isaiah 37:12

A church father on this verse
“(Verse 8 and following) But when Rabshakeh returned, he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. And he heard that Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia, had come out to fight against him. When he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah saying: 'Thus you shall spe…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

12Have the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed delivered them, both Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, which are in the land of Theemath?

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10Thus shall ye say to Hezekiah king of Judea, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.

11Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done, how they have destroyed the whole earth? and shalt thou be delivered?

— Isaiah 37:12 —

13Where are the kings of Hamath? and where is the king of Arpad? and where is the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Anagugana?

14And Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, and read it, and went up to the house of the Lord, and opened it before the Lord.

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