richmahn_en_tn/2ki/20/06.md

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General Information:

The message from Yahweh to King Hezekiah through the prophet Isaiah continues.

fifteen years

15 years (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers)

from the hand of the king of Assyria

"Hand" is metonymy for power, authority and control. AT: "from the control of the king of Assyria" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

lump of figs

"paste made of boiled figs"

They did so and put it on his boil

"Hezekiah's servants did this and put the paste on Hezekiah's sore"

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