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# General Information:
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This continues Yahweh's message to the king of Assyria.
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# By your servants
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This refers to to the servants that he had sent to Hezekiah with a message. This can be stated clearly. AT: "In the messages you sent with your servants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# I have gone ... I will cut ... I will enter ... I have dug ... I dried ... my feet
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Here Sennacherib speaks of himself conquering many things. He is actually conquering them with the armies and chariots that he commands. AT: "We have gone ... We will cut ... we will enter ... We have dug ... we dried ... our feet" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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# its tall cedars
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"Lebanon's tall cedars"
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# its most fruitful forest
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Here the word "fruitful" refers to the forest being dense and full of healthy trees. The understood information may be supplied. AT: "and into its most fruitful forest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
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# I dried up all the rivers of Egypt under the soles of my feet
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Here Sennachrib is exaggerating his conquest and travels across the rivers of Egypt by claiming to have dried up the rivers when he marched his army through them. AT: "I have marched through all the rivers of Egypt as if they were dry under my feet" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]]) |