After this. Omitting the account of the surrender of 2Ki_18:14-10.
send his servants. Compare 2Ki_18:17-37; 2Ki_19:1-35. Isa_10:8-11; Isa_10:36; Isa_10:37.
against Lacnish. A difficult task, for Rab-shakeh found Sennacherib had abandoned the siege (2Ki_19:8). Joshua had found it the same (see note on "second day", Jos_10:31, Jos_10:32). In Jer_34:7 it still belonged to Judah.