2 Raja-raja 18:34

18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? ¹  Indeed, did any gods rescue Samaria ²  from my power? ³ 

2 Raja-raja 19:22

19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?

At whom have you shouted, ⁴ 

and looked so arrogantly? ⁵ 

At the Holy One of Israel! ⁶ 

[18:34]  ¹ tn The parallel passage in Isa 36:19 omits “Hena and Ivvah.” The rhetorical questions in v. 34a suggest the answer, “Nowhere, they seem to have disappeared in the face of Assyria’s might.”

[18:34]  ² map For location see Map2 B1; Map4 D3; Map5 E2; Map6 A4; Map7 C1.

[18:34]  ³ tn Heb “that they rescued Samaria from my hand?” But this gives the impression that the gods of Sepharvaim were responsible for protecting Samaria, which is obviously not the case. The implied subject of the plural verb “rescued” must be the generic “gods of the nations/lands” (vv. 33, 35).

[19:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”

[19:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”

[19:22]  ⁶ sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.