Isaiah 37:9

37:9 The king ¹  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia ²  was marching out to fight him. ³  He again sent ⁴  messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

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 

[37:9]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[37:9]  ² tn Heb “Cush” (so NASB); NIV, NCV “the Cushite king of Egypt.”

[37:9]  ³ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’”

[37:9]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has, “and he heard and he sent,” but the parallel in 2 Kgs 19:9 has וַיָּשָׁב וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayyashav vayyishlakh, “and he returned and he sent”), i.e., “he again sent.”

[37:36]  ⁵ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[37:36]  ⁶ tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

[37:36]  ⁷ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

[37:36]  ⁸ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”