translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ISA

label: NET study note

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


text: In v. 10 the chief adviser develops further the argument begun in v. 7 . 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 Assyrian empire.