Yesaya 37:7

37:7 Look, I will take control of his mind; ¹  he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down ²  with a sword in his own land.”’”

Yesaya 37:36-37

37:36 The Lord’s messenger ³  went out and killed 185,000 troops ⁴  in the Assyrian camp. When they ⁵  got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! ⁶  37:37 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “I will put in him a spirit.” The precise sense of רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) is uncertain in this context. It may refer to a spiritual being who will take control of his mind (see 1 Kgs 22:19), or it could refer to a disposition of concern and fear. In either case the Lord’s sovereignty over the king is apparent.

² tn Heb “cause him to fall” (so KJV, ASV, NAB), that is, “kill him.”

³ tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁴ tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

⁵ tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

⁶ tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”

⁷ tn Heb “and Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went and returned and lived in Nineveh.”