Isaiah 7:3

7:3 So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub ¹  and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. ² 

Isaiah 31:3

31:3 The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;

their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.

The Lord will strike with ³  his hand;

the one who helps will stumble

and the one being helped will fall.

Together they will perish. ⁴ 

Isaiah 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ⁵  went out and killed 185,000 troops ⁶  in the Assyrian camp. When they ⁷  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! ⁸ 

Isaiah 48:20

48:20 Leave Babylon!

Flee from the Babylonians!

Announce it with a shout of joy!

Make this known!

Proclaim it throughout the earth! ⁹ 

Say, ‘The Lord protects ¹⁰  his servant Jacob.

¹ tn The name means “a remnant will return.” Perhaps in this context, where the Lord is trying to encourage Ahaz, the name suggests that only a few of the enemy invaders will return home; the rest will be defeated.

² tn Heb “the field of the washer”; traditionally “the fuller’s field” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “the Washerman’s Field.”

³ tn Heb “will extend”; KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV “stretch out.”

⁴ tn Heb “together all of them will come to an end.”

⁵ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁶ tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

⁷ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

⁸ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

⁷ tn Heb “to the end of the earth” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV).

⁸ tn Heb “redeems.” See the note at 41:14.