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The Septuagint translation of 2 Kings 18 adds the word “logos” or “word,” likely to harmonize it with similar translations in the Septuagint of Isaiah, where these editorial changes are common but still done selectively and inconsistently.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
2 Kings 18:29
Hebrew Bible
28 The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, “Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria. 29 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you from my hand! 30 Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord when he says, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”
Date: 600–501 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX 2 Kings 18:29
Septuagint
28 And Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, and spoke, and said, Hear the words of the great king of the Assyrians: 29 thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah encourage you with words: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of my hand. 30 And let not Hezekiah cause you to trust on the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The plus λόγος occurs in the Greek version of 2 Kings 18:29 as well. Yet, as to the translation in LXX 2 Kings 18:30 is closer to the Masoretic text contrary to the harmonizing translations such as LXX Isaiah 36:15 ... The Masoretic text of 2 Kings 18:28–31 and 1QIsa are in conformity with the Masoretic text Isaiah. So what we see here again, is that of the various harmonizations that LXX Isaiah discloses some are also present in the LXX of 2 Kings, but others are not ..."
Mirjam van der Vorm-Croughs, The Old Greek of Isaiah: An Analysis of Its Pluses and Minuses, SCS 61 (Atlanta: SBL, 2014), 310.
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