Isaiah 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger 1  went out and killed 185,000 troops 2  in the Assyrian camp. When they 3  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! 4 

Isaiah 37:38

37:38 One day, 5  as he was worshiping 6  in the temple of his god Nisroch, 7  his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. 8  They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.

1 tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

2 tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

3 tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

4 tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

5 sn The assassination of King Sennacherib probably took place in 681 b.c.

6 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

7 sn No such Mesopotamian god is presently known. Perhaps the name Nisroch is a corruption of Nusku.

8 sn Extra-biblical sources also mention the assassination of Sennacherib, though they refer to only one assassin. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 239-40.