⁹ Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,^[a] was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

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1 This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,^[a](A) the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces^(B) stretching from India to Cush^[b]:^(C)

¹⁰ therefore I am against you^(A) and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt^(B) a ruin and a desolate waste^(C) from Migdol^(D) to Aswan,^(E) as far as the border of Cush.^[a](F)