## The king of Assyria mobilized his great army, sending Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh ## Sennacherib sent a group of men from his army to Jerusalem to meet with King Hezekiah, including officials named Tartan, Rabsaris and Rabshakeh. ## Tartan ... Rabsaris ... Rabshakeh ... Eliakim ... Hilkiah ... Shebna ... Joah ... Asaph ## men's names (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]]) ## Tartan ... Rabsaris ... Rabshakeh ## Some understand these to be titles: "the tartan ... the rabsaris ... the rabshakeh" or "the leader of the soldiers .., another important official ... the man who tasted the king's wine" (see UDB). ## Lachish ## place name (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]]) ## the conduit of the upper pool ## the place where the water stored in the "upper pool" flows into the city of Jerusalem ## stood by it ## AT: "and waited there for King Hezekiah to meet with them"