2Ki 18:19, Ezr 7:12, Psa 47:2, Isa 10:8-13, Eze 29:3, 31:3-10, Rev 19:6 | TSK | STEP | 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. What confidence.

2 Kings 18:19

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

Ezra 7:12

Artaxerxes.The title of the king would, in Persian, run thus: {Ardsheer shahinshah,} or {padshah,} "Ardsheer, king of kings," i.e., great or supreme king or emperor.

1Ki 4:24; 20:1; Isa 10:8; Eze 26:7; Da 2:37,47; 1Ti 6:15; Re 17:14

Re 19:16

unto Ezra, etc. or, to Ezra the priest, a perfect scribe ofthe law of the God of heaven, peace, etc. and at such a time.

4:10,11,17

Psalms 47:2

is terrible.

65:5; 66:3-5; 68:35; 76:12; 99:3; 145:6; De 7:21; 28:58; Ne 1:5

Na 1:6,7; Re 6:16,17

a great.

7; 22:27-29; 95:3; Da 7:13,14; Mal 1:14; Mt 28:18; Php 2:9-11

Isaiah 10:8-13

36:8; 2Ki 18:24; 19:10; Eze 26:7; Da 2:37

Calno.

Am 6:1,2

Calneh.

Carchemish.

2Ch 35:20; Jer 46:2

Hamath.

36:19; 37:13; 2Sa 8:9; 2Ki 17:24; Jer 49:23

Samaria.

7:8; 17:3; 2Ki 16:9; 17:5,6; 18:9,10

the kingdoms.

14; 2Ki 18:33-35; 19:12,13,17-19; 2Ch 32:12-16,19

as I have.

36:19,20; 37:10-13

when the Lord.

5,6; 14:24-27; 27:9; 46:10,11; Ps 76:10; 1Pe 4:17

I will.

16-19,25-34; 17:12-14; 29:7,8; 30:30-33; 31:5-9; 37:36-38; 50:11

Jer 50:18

punish the fruit of the stout heart. Heb. visit upon thefruit of the greatness of the heart.

9:9; Job 40:11,12; Ps 21:10; Mt 12:33; 15:19

the glory.

2:11; 5:15; Ps 18:27; Pr 30:13; Eze 31:10,14; Da 4:37

For he saith.

8; 37:23,24; De 8:17; Eze 25:3; 26:2; 28:2-9; 29:3; Da 4:30; Am 6:13

Hab 1:16

I have removed.

2Ki 15:29; 17:6,24; 18:11,32; 1Ch 5:26; Am 5:27; 6:1,2

robbed.

2Ki 16:8; 18:15; Ho 13:15,16

a valiant man. or, many people.

Ezekiel 29:3

I am.

10; 28:22; Ps 76:7; Jer 44:30; Na 1:6

the great.

32:2; Ps 74:13,14; Isa 27:1; 51:9; Re 12:3,4,16,17; 13:2,4,11

Re 16:13; 20:2

My river.

9; 28:2; De 8:17; Isa 10:13,14; Da 4:30,31

Ezekiel 31:3-10

the Assyrian.

Na 3:1-19; Zep 2:13

a cedar.

17:3,4,22; Isa 10:33,34; 37:24; Da 4:10,20-23; Zec 11:2

with fair branches. Heb. fair of branches. of an high.

6; Jud 9:15; Da 4:12

waters.

17:5,8; Pr 14:28; Jer 51:36; Re 17:1,15

made him great. or, nourished him. set. or, brought.little rivers. or, conduits.

his height.The Assyrian king, to whom Pharaoh is compared, from his great power, extensive dominion, and the protection he afforded, resembled the spreading branches, thick shade, and high stature of a flourishing cedar on mount Lebanon. The fruitful lands of Assyria; the immense revenues he drew from vast multitudes in his extensive territories; his lucrative commerce, by the river Tigris, with the countries on the Indian ocean; and all the various sources of his wealth and prosperity, resembled the rivers and streams which cause the trees planted by them to grow and flourish exceedingly; and hence the empire and its head were exalted above all the kingdoms of the earth.

Ps 37:35,36; Isa 10:8-14; 36:4,18,19; 37:11-13; Da 4:11

he shot forth. or, it sent them forth.

17:23; Da 4:12,21; Mt 13:32

cedars.

28:13; Ge 2:8; 13:10; Ps 80:10; Isa 51:3

nor any.

Ps 37:35; Isa 10:7-14; 36:4-18; 37:11-13

made.

16:14; Ex 9:16; Ps 75:6,7; Da 2:21,37,38; 4:22-25; 5:20-23

all the trees.

17:22,24; Jud 9:8-20; Ps 96:12,13; Isa 55:12; Zec 11:2

envied.