translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: For a discussion of these titles see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 229-30.


text: In v. 25 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 22 . He claims that Hezekiah has offended the Lord and that the Lord has commissioned Assyria as his instrument of discipline and judgment.


text: Aramaic was the diplomatic language of the empire.


text: As a sign of grief and mourning.