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Isaiah 37:5-9 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

5. When these leaders came to me,

6. I told them that the Lord had this message for Hezekiah:I am the Lord. Don't worry about the insulting things that have been said about me by these messengers from the king of Assyria.

7. I will upset him with rumours about what's happening in his own country. He will go back, and there I will make him die a violent death.

8. Meanwhile the commander of the Assyrian forces heard that his king had left the town of Lachish and was now attacking Libnah. So he went there.

9. About this same time, the king of Assyria learnt that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was on his way to attack him. Then the king of Assyria sent some messengers with this note for Hezekiah:

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