2Ch 32:1-23, Isa 36 | TSK | STEP | Sennacherib invading Judah, Hezekiah fortifies himself, and encourages his people. Against the blasphemies of Sennacherib, Hezekiah and Isaiah pray. An angel destroys the host of the Assyrians. Hezekiah praying in his sickness, God gives him a sign of recovery. He waxing proud, is humbled by God. His wealth and works. His error in the ambassage of Babylon. He dying, Manasseh succeeds him. these things. king of Assyria. win them. Heb. break them up.

who stopped.This was prudently done; for, without water, how could an immense army subsist in ar arid country? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much through this; as a Christian army did, through the same cause, 1,800 years afterwards.

the brook.

30; 30:14

ran through the midst of. Heb. overflowed. kings.The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read king, in the singular number.

1; 2Ki 18:9,13; 19:17; Isa 10:8

find.

1Ki 3:9,16,17; 19:21

he strengthened.

12:1; 14:5-7; 17:1,2; 23:1; 26:8; Isa 22:9,10

that was broken.

25:23

another wall.

2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4

Millo.

Jud 9:6; 2Sa 5:9; 1Ki 9:24; 11:27; 2Ki 12:20

darts. or, swords, or weapons.

26:14,15

he set captains.

17:14-19; 1Ch 27:3,4-34

in the street.

Ezr 10:9; Ne 8:1-3,16

comfortably to them. Heb. to their heart.

30:22; Ge 34:3; Isa 40:2; *margins

strong.

De 31:6,7,23; Jos 1:6-9; 1Ch 28:10,20; Isa 35:4; Da 10:19

Zec 8:9,23; Eph 6:10; 2Ti 2:1

be not afraid.

20:15; 2Ki 18:30; 19:6,7

for there.

2Ki 6:16; Ro 8:31; 1Jo 4:4

an arm.

Job 40:9; Jer 17:5; 1Jo 4:4

with us.

13:12; 14:11; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:10; 41:10; Ac 18:10; 2Ti 4:17,22

to fight.

20:15; De 20:1,4; Jos 10:42

rested. Heb. leaned.

15; 20:20; Isa 36:18

upon the words.

Pr 12:25

A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. Sennacherib.

2Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2

Lachish.

Jos 10:31; 12:11; 15:39; Isa 37:8; Mic 1:13

power. Heb. dominion.

Thus saith.

2Ki 18:19; Isa 36:4

siege. Heb. strong-hold.

to give over.

2Ki 18:27; Isa 36:12,18

The Lord our God.

15; 2Ki 18:30; 19:10; Ps 3:2; 11:1-3; 22:8; 42:10; 71:11; Mt 27:43

Hath not.

31:1; 2Ki 18:4,22; Isa 36:7

taken away.This was artfully malicious: many of the people had sacrificed to Jehovah on high places, (ch. 31:1;) and Hezekiah had removed them, as incentives to idolatry. Hence Rabshakeh insinuates that by so doing he had offended Jehovah, deprived the people of their religious rights, and that, consequently, he could neither expect the blessing of God, nor the cooperation of the people.

Ye shall worship.

De 12:13,14,26,27

one altar.

4:1; Ex 27:1-8; 30:1-6; 40:26-29; 1Ki 7:48

I and my.

2Ki 15:29; 17:5,6; 19:11-13,17,18; Isa 10:9,10,14; 37:12,13,18-20

Da 4:30,37; 5:19

were the gods.

19; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:18,19; Ps 115:3-8; Isa 44:8-10

Jer 10:11,12,16; Ac 19:26; 1Co 8:4

among.

Isa 10:11,12

your God.

Ex 14:3; 15:9-11; Isa 42:8

deceive.

2Ki 18:29; 19:10

persuade.

11; 1Ki 22:22; Isa 36:18; Ac 19:26; Ga 1:10

much less.

Ex 5:2; Da 3:15; Joh 19:10,11

yet.

Job 15:25,26; Ps 73:9

against.

Joh 15:21

He wrote.

2Ki 19:9,14; Ne 6:5; Isa 37:14

to rail.

2Ki 19:22,28; Isa 10:15; 37:23,24,28,29; Re 13:6

As the gods.

2Ki 19:12

they cried.

2Ki 18:26-28; Isa 36:13

to affright.

1Sa 17:10,26; Ne 6:9

spake.

13-17; 1Sa 17:36; Job 15:25,26; Ps 10:13,14; 73:8-11; 139:19,20

the God.

6:6; Ps 76:1,2; 78:68; 87:1-3; 132:13,14; Isa 14:32; Heb 12:22

the work.

De 4:28; 27:15; 2Ki 19:18; Ps 135:15-18; Isa 2:8; 37:19; 44:16-20

Jer 1:16; 10:3,9; 32:30; Ho 8:5,6

Hezekiah.

2Ki 19:14-19; Isa 37:1,14-20

the prophet.

2Ki 19:2-4; Isa 37:2-4

prayed.

14:11; 20:6-12; Ps 50:15; 91:14,15

the Lord.

2Ki 19:20,35-37; Isa 10:16-18; 37:21,36,37; 42:8

angel.

2Sa 24:16; Ps 18:50; Da 3:28; 6:22; Mt 13:49,50; Ac 12:23

cut off all.

Job 9:4; Ps 76:5,7,12

the leaders.

Isa 10:8,16-19,33,34; 17:12-14; 29:5-8; 30:30-33; 33:10-12; 36:9

Re 6:15,16; 19:17,18

with shame.

Ps 132:18; Pr 11:2; 16:18

he was come.

2Ki 19:36,37; Isa 37:37,38

slew him. Heb. made him fall.

Lord.

Ps 18:48-50; 37:39,40; 144:10; Isa 10:24,25; 31:4,5; 33:22; Ho 1:7

guided.

Ps 48:14; 71:20,21; 73:24; Isa 58:11; Joh 16:13; 2Th 3:5

gifts.

2Sa 8:10,11; Ezr 7:15-22,27; Ps 68:29; 72:10; Isa 60:7-9; Mt 2:11

presents. Heb. precious things.

9:9,10,24; 17:5,11; 1Ki 4:21; 10:10,25

he was magnified.

1:1; 1Ch 29:25

‏ Isaiah 36

1 Sennacherib invades Judah.

2 Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, by blasphemous persuasions solicits the people to revolt.

22 His words are told to Hezekiah.

it came.

2Ki 18:13,17; 2Ch 32:1

that Sennacherib.

1:7,8; 7:17; 8:7,8; 10:28-32; 33:7,8

A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. sent.

2Ki 18:17-37; 2Ch 32:9-23

the conduit.

7:3; 22:9-11

Eliakim.

22:15-20

Shebna.

2Sa 8:16,17; 20:24,25

scribe. or, secretary.

Thus saith.

10:8-14; 37:11-15; Pr 16:18; Eze 31:3-18; Da 4:30; Ac 12:22,23

Jude 1:16

Assyria.Assyria proper, now Kourdistan, was bounded by Armenia on the north, Media and Persia on the east, Babylonia on the south, and the Tigris, which divides it from Mesopotamia, on the west, between 33 degrees and 38 degrees N. lat. and 42 degrees and 46 degrees E. long. But the Assyrian empire, the bounds of which were different at different times, in its most flourishing state, according to the descriptions of the Greek and Roman writers, comprehended all the countries and nations between the Mediterranean on the west, and the Indus on the east, and between the deserts of Scythia on the north, and the Indian ocean on the south.

What.

2Ki 18:5,19-37; 19:10; 2Ch 32:7-10,14-16; Ps 42:3,10; 71:10,11

vain words. Heb. a word of lips. I have counsel andstrength for war. or, but counsel and strength are for the war.

Pr 21:30,31; 24:5,6

that.

2Ki 18:7; 24:1; Ne 2:19,20; Jer 52:3; Eze 17:15

20:5,6; 30:1-7; 31:3; 2Ki 17:4; 18:21; Jer 37:5-8; Eze 29:6,7

We trust.

2Ki 18:5,22; 1Ch 5:20; 2Ch 16:7-9; 32:7,8; Ps 22:4,5; 42:5,10,11

is it not.

De 12:2-6,13,14; 2Ki 18:4; 2Ch 30:14; 31:1; 32:12; 1Co 2:15

pledges. or, hostages.

2Ki 14:14

and I.

10:13,14; 1Sa 17:40-43; 1Ki 20:10,18; 2Ki 18:23; Ne 4:2-5

Ps 20:7,8; 123:3,4

the least.

10:8; 2Ki 18:24

and put.

6; 30:16,17; De 17:16; Pr 21:31; Jer 2:36

10:5-7; 37:28; 1Ki 13:18; 2Ki 18:25; 2Ch 35:21; Am 3:6

in the Syrian.

2Ki 18:26,27; Ezr 4:7; Da 2:4

that they may.

9:20; Le 26:29; De 28:53-57; 2Ki 6:25-29; 18:27; Jer 19:9

La 4:9,10; Eze 4:16

cried.

1Sa 17:8-11; 2Ki 18:28-32; 2Ch 32:18; Ps 17:10-13; 73:8,9; 82:6,7

Hear.

4; 8:7; 10:8-13; Eze 31:3-10; Da 4:37

37:10-13; 2Ki 19:10-13,22; 2Ch 32:11,13-19; Da 3:15-17; 6:20

Da 7:25; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:5,6

7; 37:23,24; Ps 4:2; 22:7,8; 71:9-11; Mt 27:43

Make an agreement with me by a present. or, Seek my favourby a present. Heb. Make with me a blessing.

Ge 32:20; 33:11; 1Sa 25:27; 2Sa 8:6; 2Ki 5:15; 18:31; 2Co 9:5; *marg:

come out.

1Sa 11:3; 2Ki 24:12-16

eat ye.

1Ki 4:20,25; Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10

I come.

2Ki 17:6-23; 18:9-12; 24:11; Pr 12:10

a land of corn.

Ex 3:8; De 8:7-9; 11:12; Job 20:17The other copy in 2 Ki 18:32, adds here, "a land of oil olive, and of honey; that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he seduceth you."

lest.

7,10,15; 37:10; Ps 12:4; 92:5-7

Hath.

37:12,13,17,18; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:12,13,17,18; 2Ch 32:13-17

Ps 115:2-8; 135:5,6,15-18; Jer 10:3-5,10-12; Da 3:15; Hab 2:19,20

Hamath.

Nu 34:8; 2Sa 8:9

Arphad.The variation of Arphad and Arpad exists only in the translation; the original being uniformly ['Arpâd .]

10:9; Jer 49:23

Arpad.

Sepharvaim.Calmet is of opinion that Sepharvaim was the capital of the Saspires, who, according to Herodotus, were the only people that inhabited between the Colchians and Medes; and probably the Sarapases, whom Strabo places in Armenia. Hiller considers the name as denoting Sephar of the Parvaim, i.e., Mount Sephar adjacent to the regions of Arabia called Parvaim. But it is more probable, as Wells and others suppose, that Sepharvaim is the [Sipphara,] Sipphara, of Ptolemy, the [Sipparenon polis,] the city of the Sippareni, mentioned by Abydenus, and probably the Hipparenum of Pliny, a city of Mesopotamia, situated upon the Euphrates, near where it is divided into two arms, by one of which, it is probable, it was divided into two parts.

2Ki 17:24

and have.

10:10,11; 2Ki 17:5-7; 18:10-12

that the Lord.

37:18,19,23-29; 45:16,17; Ex 5:2; 2Ki 19:22-37; 2Ch 32:15,19

Job 15:25,26; 40:9-12; Ps 50:21; 73:9; Da 3:15

2Ki 18:26,37; Ps 38:13-15; 39:1; Pr 9:7; 26:4; Am 5:13; Mt 7:6

Eliakim.

3,11

with their.

33:7; 37:1,2; 2Ki 5:7; Ezr 9:3; Mt 26:65The history of the invasion of Sennacherib, observes Bp. Lowth, and the miraculous destruction of his army, which makes the subject of so many of Isaiah's prophecies, is very properly inserted here, as affording the best light to many parts of these prophecies; and as almost necessary to introduce the prophecy in the 37th chapter, being the answer of God to Hezekiah's prayer, which could not be properly understood without it. Sennacherib succeeded his father Shalmaneser on the throne of Assyria, A.M. 3290, B.C. 714, and reigned only about eight years.