Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 18:17:
- Kupsabiny: “Then, the king of Assyria said to his big person in charge of all soldiers, the person in charge of the soldiers who guarded the king and his assistant to take the soldiers for a raid. He told those people to get up from the city of Lachish and go with many soldiers to attack Hezekiah in Jerusalem. When they reached there. they went and stood near a channel of a pond/well which was on the upper side of a wide path that headed towards where clothes were washed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “For the purpose of attacking Jerusalem the King of Assyria gave a large army to the army chief, the generals and the captains and sent them from Lachish to king Hezekiah in Jerusalem. Having arrived in Jerusalem, they stood on the road near the canal of the pond situated above it which goes to the field of the washermen.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But while Senakerib was there at Lakish, he commanded his leading/[lit. head] commander, the leading/[lit. head] officer, and his commander that have many soldiers, to go to Jerusalem to meet with King Hezekia. When they were now outside of Jerusalem, they stopped near the place-where-the-water-flows from the upper pool, there on the road to the place of laundering/washing-clothes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “But the king of Assyria sent a large army with some of his important officials from Lachish city to persuade King Hezekiah to surrender. When they arrived at Jerusalem, they stood alongside the aqueduct/channel in which water flows from the upper pool into Jerusalem, near the road to the field where the women wash clothes.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
