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# General Information:
This continues Yahweh's message to the king of Assyria.
# By your servants
This refers to to the servants that he had sent to Hezekiah with a message. This can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "In the messages you sent with your servants" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
# I have gone ... I will cut ... I will enter
Here Sennacherib speaks of himself conquering many things. He is actually conquering them with the armies and chariots that he commands. Alternate translation: "We have gone ... We will cut ... we will enter" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
# its tall cedars
"Lebanon's tall cedars"
# its most fruitful forest
Here the word "fruitful" refers to the forest being dense and full of healthy trees. The understood information may be supplied. Alternate translation: "and into its most fruitful forest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])