又差遣使者进城见以色列王亚哈，对他说：“便哈达如此说：

他派使者进城到以色列王亚哈那里，对他说：“便‧哈达如此说：

他派使者进城到以色列王亚哈那里，对他说：“便‧哈达如此说：

他派遣使者进城对以色列王亚哈说：

他派遣一些使者进城去见以色列王亚哈，对他说：“便．哈达这样说：

又差遣使者進城見以色列王亞哈，對他說：「便‧哈達如此說：

他派使者進城到以色列王亞哈那裏，對他說：「便‧哈达如此說：

他派使者進城到以色列王亞哈那裏，對他說：「便‧哈達如此說：

他派遣使者進城對以色列王亞哈說：

他派遣一些使者進城去見以色列王亞哈，對他說：“便．哈達這樣說：

他差遣使者進城來見以色列王亞哈，

遣使入城、見以色列王亞哈曰、便哈達云、

遣使入城、見以色列王亞哈、曰、便哈達云、

遣使者入城、見以色列王亞哈、

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, saying,“ This is what Ben-Hadad says:

Ben- Hadad sent messengers into the city. They spoke to Ahab, the king of Israel. They told him,“ Ben- Hadad says,

And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him,“ Thus says Ben-hadad:

Ben hadad sent messengers into the city to relay this message to King Ahab of Israel:“ This is what Ben hadad says:

He sent messengers into the city to King Ahab of Israel and said to him,“ This is what Ben-hadad says:

Then he sent messengers to the city to Ahab, king of Israel, and said to him,“ This is what Ben hadad says:

Then he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel, and said to him,“ Thus says Ben-Hadad:

And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben- hadad,

He sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him,“ This is what Ben-hadad says:

And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Benhadad,

He sent messengers to King Ahab of Israel, who was in the city.

He sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him,“ Ben Hadad says,

Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: (niv)

Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.The field commander said to them,“ Tell Hezekiah:“‘ This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours?You say you have counsel and might for war— but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me?Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.But if you say to me,“ We are depending on the Lord our God”— isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem,“ You must worship before this altar”?“‘ Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses— if you can put riders on them!How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander,“ Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”But the commander replied,“ Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall— who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew,“ Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you!Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says,‘ The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’“ Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,until I come and take you to a land like your own— a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.“ Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says,‘ The Lord will deliver us.’ Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand?Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded,“ Do not answer him.”Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said. (niv)

Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:“ Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says,‘ Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’ (niv)