“Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?”
The Assyrian message asks where the kings of Hamath, Arpad, and Sepharvaim are, suggesting that they have been destroyed and their cities conquered. The questions are rhetorical, designed to establish the futility of resistance. The oracle shows the pattern of rhetorical questioning used to establish the impossibility of Judean survival.
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