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Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians

Isaiah 37:37

In 11 translations

BSB
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
KJV
¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
WEB
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
ASV
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
LSV
And he journeys, and goes, and Sennacherib king of Asshur turns back, and dwells in Nineveh.
YLT
And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.
DBY
And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.
DRC
And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.
GNV
So Saneherib king of Asshur departed, and went away and returned and dwelt at Nineueh.
JPS
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
LXXE
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and dwelt in Nineve.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּסַּ֣ע וַיֵּ֔לֶךְ וַיָּ֖שָׁב סַנְחֵרִ֣יב מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀπῆλθεν ἀποστραφεὶς Σενναχηρεὶμ βασιλεὺς Ἀσσυρίων, καὶ ᾤκησεν ἐν Νινευῇ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jonah 3:3This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
  • Jonah 1:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  • Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
  • Nahum 1:1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
  • Jonah 4:11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  • Isaiah 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  • Genesis 10:11–12From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
  • Isaiah 37:7Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”
  • Isaiah 31:9Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

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