15:9 He assembled all Judah and Benjamin, as well as the settlers 3 from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had come to live with them. Many people from Israel had come there to live 4 when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.
1 tn Heb “and there fell from the Cushites so that there was not to them preservation of life.”
2 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the men of Judah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Or “resident aliens.”
4 tn Heb “had fallen upon him.”
5 tn Or “an angel.”
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sennacherib) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and he returned with shame of face to his land.”
8 tn Heb “and some from those who went out from him, from his inward parts.”