So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
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Barnes' Notes
On Lachish and Libnah, see Jos 10:3, note; Jos 10:29, note. The phrase, “he was departed from Lachish” is suggestive of successful resistance.
Adam Clarke
Libnah - Lachish - These two places were not very distant from each other; they were in the mountains of Judah, southward of Jerusalem.
Rabshakeh, having delivered his message and received no answer (whether he took this silence for a consent or a slight does not appear), left his army before Jerusalem, under the command of the other…
Cambridge Bible
Sennacherib's letter to Hezekiah (2Ch 32:17; Isa 37:8-13)
8. So Rab-shakeh returned i.e. Southward, towards Lachish, but during his absence Sennacherib had undertaken to attack Libnah, and there…
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