Reference

Isaiah 37:6

And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

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So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

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Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

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So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

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Prophetic Methods of Communication

This verse describes Isaiah delivering a message, but it does not explicitly detail the method by which God communicated that message to Isaiah (e.g., dream, vision, audible voice). It only states that Isaiah "said unto them, Thus saith the Lord," implying a divine source for the message, but not the specific means of revelation to the prophet.