2Ki 19 | TSK | STEP | Hezekiah mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them. Isaiah comforts them. Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. Hezekiah's prayer. Isaiah's prophecy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion. An angel slays the Assyrians. Sennacherib is slain by his own sons. when king. he rent. covered. went into.

when he heard.When Sennacherib had levied contributions on Hezekiah, he marched his army into Egypt; where, after several successes, he laid siege to Pelusium, and spent much time in it; but hearing that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, whom Strabo calls Therchon, was marching against him with a great army, to assist his kinsman Sevechus, or Sethon, the king of Egypt, he durst not abide his coming, but raised the siege; and returning to Judea, he encamped against Lachish, and afterwards against Libnah. But finding that Tirhakah pursued him as a fugitive, he marched back to encounter him; and having totally routed his army, he returned to wreak his vengeance on Hezekiah.

1Sa 23:27; Isa 37:9

sent.

18:17

18:5,29,30; 2Ch 32:15-19; Isa 37:10-14

17,18; 17:5-11; 2Ch 32:13,14; Isa 10:8-11

Have the gods.

18:33,34

Gozan.

17:6; 1Ch 5:26

Haran.

Ge 11:31; 29:4; Ac 7:4

Charran. Rezeph.Rezeph was probably either Rezapha, which Ptolemy places in the Palmyrene, west of the Euphrates; or rather, Rezipha, in Mesopotamia, east of the Euphrates.

Eden.

Ge 2:8; Isa 37:12

Telassar.

Eze 27:23

the king.

17:24; Nu 13:21; 34:8; Isa 11:11; Jer 39:5; 49:23; Zec 9:2

Arpad.

18:34; Isa 37:13-20

Arphad.

Hezekiah.

Isa 37:14

spread it.

1Ki 8:28-30; Ezr 9:5; Ps 74:10,11; 91:1,2; 123:1-4

prayed.

2Sa 7:18-28; 2Ch 14:11; 20:6; 32:20; Da 9:3,4

O Lord God.

Ge 32:28; 33:20; 1Ki 8:23; 1Ch 4:10; Isa 41:17

dwellest.

Ex 25:22; 1Sa 4:4; 2Ch 5:7,8; Ps 80:1; 99:1

thou art the God.

5:15; 1Ki 18:39; Isa 43:10; 44:6,8; 45:22; Da 4:34,35

thou hast made.

Ge 1:1; 2:4; Ps 33:9; 102:25; 146:6; Jer 10:10-12; Joh 1:1-3:36

bow down.

Ps 31:2; Isa 37:17

open.

1Ki 8:29; 2Ch 6:40; Da 9:18

which hath sent.

4; Ps 79:12; Isa 37:4,17; Heb 11:26

Of a truth.

Job 9:2; Isa 5:9; Jer 26:15; Da 2:47; Mt 14:33; Lu 22:59; Ac 4:27

1Co 14:25

the kings.

16:9; 17:6,24; 1Ch 5:26; Isa 7:17,18; 10:9-11

have cast. Heb. have given.

2Sa 5:21; Isa 46:1,2

for they were.

Ps 115:4-8; Isa 37:18,19; 44:9-20; Jer 10:3-9,14-16; Ac 17:29

O Lord.

Ex 9:15,16; Jos 7:9; 1Sa 17:45-47; 1Ki 8:43; 18:36,37; 20:28

Ps 67:1,2; 83:18; Da 4:34-37

which thou hast.

2Sa 15:31; 17:23

I have heard.

20:5; 2Ch 32:20,21; Job 22:27; Ps 50:15; 65:2; Isa 58:9; 65:24

Jer 33:3; Da 9:20-23; Joh 11:42; Ac 10:4,31; 1Jo 5:14,15

The virgin.

Isa 23:12; 37:21,22-35; 47:1; Jer 14:17; 18:13; 31:4; La 1:15; 2:13

Am 5:2

the daughter.

Ps 9:14; 137:8; Isa 1:8; 23:10; 47:5; Jer 46:11; La 2:13; 4:21

Mic 4:8; Zec 9:9

shaken her head.

Job 16:4; Ps 22:7,8; Isa 37:22; La 2:15; Mt 27:39

Whom.

18:28-35; Ex 5:2; Ps 73:9; 74:22,23

exalted thy voice.

Ex 9:17; Pr 30:13; Isa 10:15; 14:13,14; Eze 28:2-9; Da 5:20-23

2Co 10:5; 2Th 2:4

the Holy One.

Ps 71:22; Isa 5:24; 30:11,12,15; Jer 51:5

By. Heb. By the hand of. messengers.

18:17; 2Ch 32:17

With the multitude.

18:23,33,34; Ps 20:7; Isa 10:7-11,14; 37:24,25; Eze 31:3-18

tall cedar trees thereof. Heb. tallness of the cedar-treesthereof. the forest of his Carmel. or, the forest, and his fruitful field.

I have digged, etc.I have conquered strange countries, and marched through the driest places, in which I have digged wells for my army.

with the sole.My infantry have been so numerous, that they alone have been sufficient to dry up all the rivers of besieged places, either by drinking them, or by diverting their course into other channels.

Ex 15:9; 2Sa 17:13; 1Ki 20:10; Da 4:30

besieged places. or, fenced places.

Hast thou not, etc. or,Hast thou not heard how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps? I have done it.

Ps 33:11; 76:10; Isa 10:5,6,15; 37:26,27; 45:7; 46:10,11; 54:16

Ac 4:27,28

of small power. Heb. short of hand.

Nu 11:23; 14:9; Ps 48:4-7; 127:1; Jer 37:10; 50:36,37; 51:30,32

they were.

Ps 92:7; 102:11; Isa 40:6-8; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24

the grass.

Ps 129:6-8

I know.

Ps 139:1-11; Jer 23:23,24

abode. or, sitting. thy going out.

De 28:6,19; Ps 121:8; Isa 37:28,29

thy rage.

Ps 2:1-5; 7:6; 10:13,14; 46:6; 93:3,4; Lu 6:11; Joh 15:18,23,24

Ac 7:51

thy tumult.

Ps 65:7; 74:4,23; 83:2

I will put.This alludes to the method by which the common people manage their beasts in the East, especially the dromedaries, which are governed by a bridle fastened to a ring, which runs through the nostril of the beast.

Job 41:2; Ps 32:9; Eze 29:4; 38:4; Am 4:2

by the way.

33,36,37

a sign.

21,31-34; 20:8,9; Ex 3:12; 1Sa 2:34; Isa 7:11-14; Lu 2:12

Ye shall eat.

Le 25:4,5,20-22; Isa 37:30

the remnant that, etc. Heb. the escaping of the house ofJudah that remaineth.

4; 2Ch 32:22,23; Isa 1:9; 10:20-22

shall yet again.

Ps 80:9; Isa 27:6; 37:31,32

For.

4; Jer 44:14; Ro 9:27; 11:5

they that escape. Heb. the escaping. the zeal.

Isa 9:7; 59:17; 63:15; Eze 5:13; 20:9; Zec 1:14; Joh 2:17

He shall not come.

Isa 8:7-10; 10:24,25,28-32; 37:33-35

cast a bank.

2Sa 20:15; Eze 21:22; Lu 19:43,44

By the way.

28,36

I will defend.

20:6; Ps 46:5,6; 48:2-8; Isa 31:5; 38:6

for mine.

De 32:27; Isa 43:25; 48:9,11; Eze 36:22; Eph 1:6,14

my servant.

1Ki 11:12,13; 15:4; Isa 9:7; Jer 23:5,6; 33:21,26

that night.

Ex 12:29; Da 5:30; 1Th 5:2,3

the angel.

Ex 12:29,30; 2Sa 24:16; 1Ch 21:12,16; 2Ch 32:21,22; Ps 35:5,6

Ac 12:23

and smote.

Isa 10:16-19,33; 30:30-33; 37:36; Ho 1:7

when they arose.

Ex 12:30; Ps 76:5-7,10

Sennacherib.

7,28,33

Nineveh.

Ge 10:11,12; Jon 1:2; 3:2-10; Na 1:1; 2:8; Mt 12:41

Nisroch.

10; 18:5,30; De 32:31; 2Ch 32:14,19; Isa 37:37,38

his sons smote.

7; 2Ch 32:21

the land.Armenia or Ararat is a province of Asia, comprising the modern Turcomania and part of Persia; having Georgia on the north, Curdistan, or the ancient Assyria on the south, and Asia Minor, now Natolia, on the west.

Armenia. Heb. Ararat.

Ge 8:4; Jer 51:27

Esar-haddon.

Ezr 4:2