Isaiah 17:9

17:9 At that time ¹  their fortified cities will be

like the abandoned summits of the Amorites, ² 

which they abandoned because of the Israelites;

there will be desolation.

Isaiah 36:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

36:1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, ³  King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

[17:9]  ¹ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV).

[17:9]  ² tn The Hebrew text reads literally, “like the abandonment of the wooded height and the top one.” The following relative clause appears to allude back to the Israelite conquest of the land, so it seems preferable to emend הַחֹרֶשׁ וְהָאָמִיר (hakhoresh vÿha’amir, “the wooded height and the top one”) to חֹרֵשֵׁי הָאֱמֹרִי (khoreshe ha’emori, “[like the abandonment] of the wooded heights of the Amorites”).

[36:1]  ³ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.