18:15 The king said to him, “How many times must I make you solemnly promise in 1 the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?”
2 Chronicles 32:13
32:13 Are you not aware of what I and my predecessors 2 have done to all the nations of the surrounding lands? Have the gods of the surrounding lands actually been able to rescue their lands from my power? 3
1 tn Or “swear an oath by.”
2 tnHeb “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.