Isaiah 37:2

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He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

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The Assyrian EmpireThe extent of the Assyrian Empire that conquered the northern kingdom of Israel.

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Jerusalem, including Zion, was Judah’s capital, where Hezekiah sent officials to Isaiah during Sennacherib’s Assyrian invasion. The surrounding places—from Assyria’s

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Isaiah 37:2 mentions Ararat, Arpad, Assyria, Cush, Eden, Egypt, Gozan, Hamath, Haran, Jerusalem, Lachish, Lebanon, Mount Carmel, Mount Zion, Nineveh, Rezeph and Zion.

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