All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.
NIV
All your [military] leaders have fled together; without the bow [which they had thrown away] they have been taken captive and bound by the archers. All of you who were found were bound together [as captives], though they had fled far away.
AMP
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
KJV
He consulted with his officials and military staff about blocking off the water from the springs outside the city, and they helped him.
NIV
He decided with his officers and his mighty men to stop up the waters of the fountains which were outside the city [by enclosing them with masonry and concealing them], and they helped him.
AMP
He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
KJV
He appointed military officers over the people and assembled them before him in the square at the city gate and encouraged them with these words:
NIV
And he set captains of war over the people and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying
AMP
And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
KJV
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.
NIV
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recording historian came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh [the Assyrian military official].
AMP
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
KJV
