And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Rabshakeh. In 2 Kings 18:17, Tartan and Rabsaris are joined with him. Rabashakeh was probably the chief leader; Rab is a title of authority, 'chief cupbearer.'
Lachish - a frontier town southwest of Jerusalem, in Judah; represented as a great fortified city in a hilly and fruitful country in the Kouyunjik bas-reliefs, now in the British museum; also, its name is found on a slab over a figure of Sennacherib on his throne. He took it at his first invasion, but apparently failed to take it and Libnah at the second expedition. From it he sent his messengers, and then the threatening letter to Hezekiah.
Upper pool - the side on which the Assyrians would approach Jerusalem coming from the southwest (note, Isaiah 7:3).