Isaiah 37:33

Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria ,.... The issue of his expedition, and the fruitfulness of it; how vain his attempts would be, and how successless in this undertaking:

he shall not come into this city ; shall not enter into it, and take possession of it, though so sure of it; or, "shall not come unto it F23 לא יבא אל העיר הזאת "non veniet ad civitatem hanc", Oecolampadius, Musculus, Gataker; "ad urbem hanc": Vitringa. "; for some think he never was any nearer it than Libnah, from whence he sent his letters to Hezekiah, Isaiah 37:8 ,

nor shoot an arrow there ; neither he nor his archers, so as to annoy or kill anyone person in it:

nor come before it with shields ; or, "with a shield"; that is, he himself with one; otherwise his army under Rabshakeh was before it with men armed with shields; or the sense is, he shall not prevent it, or seize upon it, with his shielded men:

nor cast a bank against it ; raise a mount, in order to fix his batteries upon, and play his artillery from, and shoot his arrows in to greater advantage.