▼tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

▼tn Heb “Cush” (so NASB, NIV11); NIV84, NCV “the Cushite king of Egypt.”

▼tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’”

▼tn The Hebrew text has, “and he heard and he sent,” but the parallel in 2 Kgs 19:9 has וַיָּשָׁב וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayyashav vayyishlakh, “and he returned and he sent”), i.e., “he again sent.”