Isaiah 37:12-13

37:12 Were the nations whom my predecessors ¹  destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? ²  37:13 Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the kings of Lair, ³  Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”

Isaiah 37:17-18

37:17 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ⁴  37:18 It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations ⁵  and their lands.

[37:12]  ¹ tn Heb “fathers” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NIV “forefathers”; NCV “ancestors.”

[37:12]  ² tn Heb “Did the gods of the nations whom my fathers destroyed rescue them – Gozan and Haran, and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who are in Telassar?”

[37:13]  ³ sn Lair was a city located in northeastern Babylon. See M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 235.

[37:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Hear all the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:18]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text here has “all the lands,” but the parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:17 has “the nations.”