2Ki 18:13-37, 2Ch 20:1-2, Isa 36 | TSK | STEP | A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. the fourteenth. Sennacherib. Heb. Sanherib. come up.

2 Kings 18:13-37

A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. the fourteenth.

2Ch 32:1-23; Isa 36:1-22

Sennacherib. Heb. Sanherib. come up.

Isa 7:17-25; 8:7,8; 10:5; Ho 12:1,2

I have offended.

7; 1Ki 20:4; Pr 29:25; Lu 14:32

12:18; 16:8; 1Ki 15:15,18,19; 2Ch 16:2

gold.

1Ki 6:31-35; 2Ch 29:3

it. Heb. them.

A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. the king.

2Ch 32:9; Isa 20:1; 36:2

Tartan.Calmet remarks, that these are not the names of persons, but of offices: {Tartan} signifies "he who presides over gifts or tribute;" {Rabsaris,} "the chief of the eunuchs;" and {Rabshakeh,} "the chief cup-bearer."

great. Heb. heavy. the conduit of the upper pool.If the Fuller's field were near En-Rogel, or the Fuller's fountain, east of Jerusalem, as is generally supposed, then the conduit of the upper pool may been an aqueduct that brought the water from the upper or eastern reservoir of that fountain, which had been seized in order to distress the city.

20:20; Isa 7:3; 22:9-11; 36:2

Eliakim.

19:2; Isa 22:20-24; 36:3,22; 37:2

Shebna.

Isa 22:15-19

the scribe. or, secretary.

2Sa 8:17; *marg:

the recorder.

2Sa 8:16; 20:24; 1Ki 4:3; 2Ch 34:8

Rab-shakeh.He was the chief speaker, being a very eloquent man, and, according to the Hebrews, whom Procopius follows, an apostate Jew; which is not improbable, as he spoke Hebrew so fluently; and when he blasphemed the Divine Majesty, the king and nobles rent their clothes, which was usual unless the blasphemer were an Israelite.

Thus saith.

2Ch 32:10; Isa 10:8-14; 36:4; 37:13; Da 4:30

What confidence.

22,29,30; 19:10; 2Ch 32:7,8,10,11,14-16; Ps 4:2; Isa 36:4,7; 37:10

sayest. or, talkest. vain words. Heb. word of the lips. Ihave counsel and strength for the war. or, but counsel and strength are for the war.

Pr 21:30,31

rebellest.

trustest. Heb. trustest thee. the staff.

upon Egypt.

so is Pharaoh.

We trust.

whose high places.

4; 2Ch 31:1; 32:12; Isa 36:7; 1Co 2:15

pledges. Heb. hostages.

I will deliver.

1Sa 17:42,44; 1Ki 20:10,18; Ne 4:2-5; Ps 123:3,4; Isa 10:13,14

Isa 36:8,9

How then.

Isa 10:8; Da 2:37,38; 4:22,37

thy trust.

21; De 17:16; Isa 31:1,3; 36:6,9; Jer 37:7; 42:14-18; Eze 17:15,17

chariots.

Ps 20:7,8

Am I now.

19:6,22-37; 1Ki 13:18; 2Ch 35:21; Isa 10:5,6; Am 3:6; Joh 19:10,11

Speak.Perceiving that the object of this blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to sedition, they mildly and reasonably required him to make his proposals in the Syrian language.

in the Syrian language.

Ezr 4:7; Isa 36:11,12; Da 2:4

eat.

6:25; De 28:53-57; Ps 73:8; La 4:5; Eze 4:13,15

their own piss. Heb. the water of their feet.

Rab-shakeh.

2Ch 32:18; Isa 36:13-18

the king of Assyria.

19; Ezr 7:12; Ps 47:2; Isa 10:8-13; Eze 29:3; 31:3-10; Re 19:6

saith.

Ps 73:8,9

Let not.

2Ch 32:11,15; Da 3:15-17; 6:16; Joh 19:10,11; 2Th 2:4,8

make you.

19:10,22; Ps 4:2; 11:1; 22:7,8; 71:9,11; 125:1,2; Mt 27:43; Lu 23:35

this city.

19:32-34

Make an agreement with me. or, Seek my favour. Heb. Makewith me a blessing.

Ge 32:20; 33:11; Pr 18:16

eat ye.

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

cistern. or, pit.

I come.

11; 17:6,23; 24:14-16; 25:11

like your own.

Ex 3:8; Nu 13:26,27; 14:8; De 8:7-9; 11:12; 32:13,14

persuadeth. or, deceiveth.

Hath any.

19:12,13,17,18; 2Ch 32:14-17,19; Isa 10:10; 36:18-20

the gods.

19:13; Nu 13:21; 2Sa 8:9; Jer 49:23

Hamath.Hamath, there is little doubt, was the Epiphania of the Greeks, as Josephus, Theodoret, and Jerome, expressly assert. It was a celebrated city of Syria, situated on the Orontes, and the present Hamah doubtless occupies its site; as Abulfeda, who was prince or emir of Hamah about A.D. 1345, expressly states, in his Description of Syria, that Hamah is an ancient city mentioned in the writings of the Israelites. It is still a considerable town, situated on both sides of the Orontes, about three days' journey and a half from Tripoli; and must contain, Burckhardt says, at least 30,000 inhabitants.

Arpad.Arpad is probably the town of Arphas, mentioned by Josephus as limiting the province of Gamalitis, Gaulanitis, Batanea, and Trachonitis, to the N. E.; and the Raphan, or Raphanea, which Stephanus places near Epiphania.

the gods.

17:24-33

Ava.

Isa 36:18,19; 37:11,12,18,19

have they delivered.

17:6,23,24,30,31; 19:12,13

Who are.

19:17; Da 3:15

that the Lord.

Ex 5:2; 2Ch 32:15; Job 15:25,26; Isa 10:15; 37:23-29

held their peace.

Ps 38:13,14; 39:1; Pr 9:7; 26:4; Am 5:13; Mt 7:6

with their clothes rent.

5:7; 22:11,19; Ge 37:29,34; Job 1:20; Isa 33:7; 36:21,22; Jer 36:24

Mt 26:65

2 Chronicles 20:1-2

1 Jehoshaphat, invaded by Moab, proclaims a fast.

5 His prayer.

14 The prophecy of Jahaziel.

20 Jehoshaphat exhorts the people, and sets singers to praise the Lord.

22 The great overthrow of his enemies.

26 The people, having blessed God at Berachah, return in triumph.

31 Jehoshaphat's reign.

35 His convoy of ships, according to the prophecy of Eliezer, unhappily perish.

after this also.

19:5,11; 32:1

the children of Moab.

Ps 83:5-8; Isa 7:1; 8:9,10; 16:6

came against.

19:2; Jer 10:24; Re 3:19

beyond the sea.That is, the Dead or Salt Sea, the western and northern boundary of Edom, which is the reading of one of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. (89,) instead of {aram}, "Syria."

Ge 14:3; Nu 34:12; Jos 3:16

Hazazon-tamar.

Ge 14:7

En-gedi.

Jos 15:62; 1Sa 23:29; So 1:14

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.