20:1 The Lord revealed the following message during the year in which King Sargon of Assyria sent his commanding general to Ashdod, and he fought against it and captured it. 3
1 tn Heb “will be a blessing” (so NCV).
2 tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB).
3 tn Heb “In the year the commanding general came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it.”
5 tn Heb “Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, annihilating them.”
6 tn Heb “and will you be rescued?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No, of course not!”
7 tn The Hebrew text here has “all the lands,” but the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:17 has “the nations.”