Now, therefore, give pledges – The margin says, ‘Hostages.’ The Hebrew verb (ערב ‛ ârāb) primarily means to mix o…

Now, therefore, give pledges. — Better, make a wager. This would seem to be a taunt interpolated by the Rabshake…

Now come, give a hostage. He concludes that there will be nothing better for Hezekiah than to set aside the intention of carrying on war, …

Now therefore give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, etc.] Or; "hostages"^F8; that you will not rebel a…

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   And it came to pa in the fourteenth year. Here the author recounts, as a historical account, the destruction of the A y…