page_title: Isaiah 37
section_title: Textual witnesses
hierarchical_section_title: Isaiah 37 / Text / Textual witnesses
caption_attribution_description: English: Assyria: Siege of Lachish. Prisoners from Lachish. Assyrian, about 700-692 BC. From Nineveh, South-West Palace, Room XXXVI, panels 9-10. The procession of prisoners from Lachish continues, moving through a rocky landscape with vines, fig-trees and perhaps olives in the background. Officials regarded as responsible for the rebellion against Assyria are treated more severely; two of them are being flayed alive. WA 124908-9. Lachish Reliefs, Object 21 of 100, British Museum
context_page_description: Isaiah 37 is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.
context_section_description: Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).
  Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd century BC or later):
  1QIsaᵃ: complete
  1QIsaᵇ: extant verses 7‑13
  4QIsaᵇ (4Q56): extant verses 29‑32
  There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; ᴮ; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ᴬ; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).
caption: Lachish reliefs, British Museum.
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