2 Chronicles 32:1-23
1 Sennacherib invading Judah, Hezekiah fortifies himself, and encourages his people.9 Against the blasphemies of Sennacherib, Hezekiah and Isaiah pray.21 An angel destroys the host of the Assyrians.24 Hezekiah praying in his sickness, God gives him a sign of recovery.25 He waxing proud, is humbled by God.27 His wealth and works.31 His error in the ambassage of Babylon.32 He dying, Manasseh succeeds him. these things.20:1,2; 2Ki 18:13-37; Isa 36:1-22king of Assyria.2Ki 15:19; 17:6; 18:11,19,20; Isa 7:17,18; 8:6-8; 10:5,6; Ho 11:5win them. Heb. break them up.Isa 10:7-11; 37:24,25; Mic 2:13 he was purposed to fight. Heb. his face was to war.2Ki 12:17; Lu 9:51,53 took counsel.30:2; 2Ki 18:20; Pr 15:22; 20:18; 24:6; Isa 40:13; Ro 11:34to stop.2Ki 20:20; Isa 22:8-11 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; 30:14ran 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 10:8find.1Ki 3:9,16,17; 19:21 he strengthened.12:1; 14:5-7; 17:1,2; 23:1; 26:8; Isa 22:9,10that was broken.25:23another wall.2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4Millo.Jud 9:6; 2Sa 5:9; 1Ki 9:24; 11:27; 2Ki 12:20darts. or, swords, or weapons.26:14,15 he set captains.17:14-19; 1Ch 27:3,4-34in the street.Ezr 10:9; Ne 8:1-3,16comfortably 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 10:19Zec 8:9,23; Eph 6:10; 2Ti 2:1be not afraid.20:15; 2Ki 18:30; 19:6,7for there.2Ki 6:16; Ro 8:31; 1Jo 4:4 an arm.Job 40:9; Jer 17:5; 1Jo 4:4with us.13:12; 14:11; Ps 46:7,11; Isa 8:10; 41:10; Ac 18:10; 2Ti 4:17,22to fight.20:15; De 20:1,4; Jos 10:42rested. Heb. leaned.15; 20:20; Isa 36:18upon the words.Pr 12:25 A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. Sennacherib.2Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2Lachish.Jos 10:31; 12:11; 15:39; Isa 37:8; Mic 1:13power. Heb. dominion. Thus saith.2Ki 18:19; Isa 36:4siege. Heb. strong-hold. to give over.2Ki 18:27; Isa 36:12,18The 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 36:7taken 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 12:13,14,26,27one 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; 37:12,13,18-20Da 4:30,37; 5:19were the gods.19; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:18,19; Ps 115:3-8; Isa 44:8-10Jer 10:11,12,16; Ac 19:26; 1Co 8:4 among.Isa 10:11,12your God.Ex 14:3; 15:9-11; Isa 42:8 deceive.2Ki 18:29; 19:10persuade.11; 1Ki 22:22; Isa 36:18; Ac 19:26; Ga 1:10much less.Ex 5:2; Da 3:15; Joh 19:10,11 yet.Job 15:25,26; Ps 73:9against.Joh 15:21 He wrote.2Ki 19:9,14; Ne 6:5; Isa 37:14to rail.2Ki 19:22,28; Isa 10:15; 37:23,24,28,29; Re 13:6As the gods.2Ki 19:12 they cried.2Ki 18:26-28; Isa 36:13to 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; 139:19,20the God.6:6; Ps 76:1,2; 78:68; 87:1-3; 132:13,14; Isa 14:32; Heb 12:22the work.De 4:28; 27:15; 2Ki 19:18; Ps 135:15-18; Isa 2:8; 37:19; 44:16-20Jer 1:16; 10:3,9; 32:30; Ho 8:5,6 Hezekiah.2Ki 19:14-19; Isa 37:1,14-20the prophet.2Ki 19:2-4; Isa 37:2-4prayed.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; 42:8angel.2Sa 24:16; Ps 18:50; Da 3:28; 6:22; Mt 13:49,50; Ac 12:23cut off all.Job 9:4; Ps 76:5,7,12the leaders.Isa 10:8,16-19,33,34; 17:12-14; 29:5-8; 30:30-33; 33:10-12; 36:9Re 6:15,16; 19:17,18with shame.Ps 132:18; Pr 11:2; 16:18he was come.2Ki 19:36,37; Isa 37:37,38slew 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 1:7guided.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 2:11presents. Heb. precious things.9:9,10,24; 17:5,11; 1Ki 4:21; 10:10,25he 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 32:1that 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 32:9-23the conduit.7:3; 22:9-11 Eliakim.22:15-20Shebna.2Sa 8:16,17; 20:24,25scribe. or, secretary. Thus saith.10:8-14; 37:11-15; Pr 16:18; Eze 31:3-18; Da 4:30; Ac 12:22,23Jude 1:16Assyria.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; 24:5,6that.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; 42:5,10,11is 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 14:14and I.10:13,14; 1Sa 17:40-43; 1Ki 20:10,18; 2Ki 18:23; Ne 4:2-5Ps 20:7,8; 123:3,4 the least.10:8; 2Ki 18:24and 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 19:9La 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; 82:6,7Hear.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; 6:20Da 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 24:12-16eat ye.1Ki 4:20,25; Mic 4:4; Zec 3:10 I come.2Ki 17:6-23; 18:9-12; 24:11; Pr 12:10a 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; 92:5-7Hath.37:12,13,17,18; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:12,13,17,18; 2Ch 32:13-17Ps 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 8:9Arphad.The variation of Arphad and Arpad exists only in the translation; the original being uniformly ['Arpâd .] 10:9; Jer 49:23Arpad.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 17:24and 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 32:15,19Job 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.3,11with 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.
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