Isa 36-39 | TSK | STEP | Sennacherib invades Judah. Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, by blasphemous persuasions solicits the people to revolt. His words are told to Hezekiah. it came. that Sennacherib.

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.

Isaiah 37

1 Hezekiah mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them.

6 Isaiah comforts them.

8 Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah.

14 Hezekiah's prayer.

21 Isaiah's prophecy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion.

36 An angel slays the Assyrians.

37 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.

it came.

2Ki 19:1-19

he rent.

36:22; 2Ki 22:11; Jer 36:24; Jon 3:5,6; Mt 11:21

and went.

Ezr 9:5; Job 1:20,21

14; 36:3; 2Ki 18:18; 19:2; 22:12-14; 2Ch 20:20; Joe 1:13

his day.

25:8; 33:2; 2Ki 19:3; 2Ch 15:4; Ps 50:15; 91:15; 116:3,4; Jer 30:7

Ho 5:15; 6:1; Re 3:19

blasphemy. or, provocation.

Ps 95:8

for the.

26:17,18; 66:9; Ho 13:13

It may.

Jos 14:12; 1Sa 14:6; 2Sa 16:12; Am 5:15

to reproach.

23,24; 36:20; 51:7,8; 1Sa 17:26,36; 2Ki 19:4,22,23; 2Ch 32:15-19

and will.

23; Ps 50:21

lift up.

1Sa 7:8; 12:19,23; 2Ch 32:20; Ps 106:23; Joe 2:17; Jas 5:16

for the.

1:9; 8:7,8; 10:5,6,22; 2Ki 17:18; 18:9-16; 2Ch 28:19; Ro 9:27

left. Heb. found.

Thus shall.

2Ki 19:5-7; 22:15-20

Be not.

7:4; 10:24,25; 35:4; 41:10-14; 43:1,2; 51:12,13; Ex 14:13; Le 26:8

Jos 11:6; 2Ch 20:15-20; Mr 4:40; 5:36

I will.

10:16-18,33,34; 17:13,14; 29:5-8; 30:28-33; 31:8,9; 33:10-12

2Ki 7:6; Job 4:9; 15:21; Ps 58:9

send a blast upon him. or, put a spirit into him. I willcause.

36-38; 2Ch 32:21

Rabshakeh.

2Ki 19:8,9; Nu 33:20,21

Libnah.

Jos 10:29,31-34; 21:13; 2Ki 8:22; 2Ch 21:10

Lachish.

Jos 12:11; 15:39

he heard.

1Sa 23:27,28

Ethiopia.Cush, which is generally rendered Ethiopia, is applied in Scripture to at least three distinct and different countries. 1. The country watered by the Gihon or Araxes, (Ge 2:13,) also called Cuth, 2 Ki 17:30. 2. A country of Arabia Petræa, bordering upon Egypt, which extended from the northern extremity of the Red sea along its eastern shore. (Comp. Ex 3:1, with Nu 12:1. Hab 3:7.) 3. Ethiopia Proper, an extensive country of Africa, comprehending Nubia and Abyssinia; being bounded on the north by Egypt, on the east by the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and on the south and west by various nations of Africa, and extending from about 6 degrees to 24 degrees N. lat. and 25 degrees to 45 degrees E. long. It is probable that it was this latter Cush, or Ethiopia, of which Tirhakah was king; he being in league with his kinsman Sevechus, son of So, or Sabacon, king of Egypt, against Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.

Let not.

36:4,15,20; 2Ki 18:5; 19:10-13; 2Ch 32:7,8,15-19; Ps 22:8

Mt 27:43

18,19; 10:7-14; 14:17; 36:18-20; 2Ki 17:4-6; 18:33-35

the gods.

36:20; 46:5-7

Gozan.

2Ki 17:6; 18:11; 19:12

Haran.Haran, the Carrhæ of the Greeks and Romans, is situated in the north-west part of Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the river Chebar; about 110 miles west of Nisibis, 90 east of Bir, 100 south of Diarbekir, and 170 north of Palmyra.

Ge 11:31; 12:14; 28:10; 29:4; Ac 7:2

Eden.It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called Mâdon, according to Asseman.

Ge 2:8; Eze 27:23; 28:13; Am 1:5

Telassar.Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar, Ge 14:1, as the Jerusalem Targum reads; for both of which the Syriac has Dolassar; and perhaps, as Doederlein supposes, the same as Sharra, a city of Mesopotamia, half a mile from the Euphrates.

2Ki 19:12

Thelasar.

Hamath.

10:9; 36:19; Jer 49:23

Hena.Hena is probably the same as Anah, a city of Mesopotamia, situated on an island in the Euphrates.

Ivah.

2Ki 17:24,30,31

Ava, Avites.

2Ki 18:34; 19:13

received.

2Ki 19:14

and Hezekiah went.

1; 1Ki 8:28-30,38; 9:3; 2Ch 6:20-42; Ps 27:5; 62:1-3; 74:10; 76:1-3

Ps 123:1-4; 143:6; Joe 2:17-20

1Sa 7:8,9; 2Sa 7:18-29; 2Ki 19:15-19; 2Ch 14:11; 20:6-12

Da 9:3,4; Php 4:6,7; Jas 5:13

Lord.

6:3; 8:13; 2Sa 7:26; Ps 46:7,11

dwellest.

Ex 25:22; 1Sa 4:4; Ps 80:1; 99:1; Heb 4:16

thou art.

20; 43:10,11; 44:6; 45:22; 54:5; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 5:15; Ps 86:10

Re 11:15-17

thou hast.

40:28; 44:24; Ge 1:1; Ps 146:6; Jer 10:10-12; Joh 1:3; Col 1:16

Incline.

2Ch 6:40; Job 36:7; Ps 17:6; 71:2; 130:1,2; Da 9:17-19; 1Pe 3:12

hear.

4; 2Sa 16:12; Ps 10:14,15; 74:10,22; 79:12; 89:50,51

the kings.

2Ki 15:29; 16:9; 17:6,24; 1Ch 5:26; Na 2:11,12

nations. Heb. lands.

And have.

10:9-11; 36:18-20; 46:1,2; Ex 32:20; 2Sa 5:21

cast. Heb. given. no gods.

40:19-21; 41:7; 44:9,10,17; Ps 115:4-8; Jer 10:3-6,11; Ho 8:6

that all.

42:8; Ex 9:15,16; Jos 7:8,9; 1Sa 17:45-47; 1Ki 8:43; 18:36,37

Ps 46:10; 59:13; 67:1,2; 83:17,18; Eze 36:23; Mal 1:11

even.

Whereas.

38:3-6; 58:9; 65:24; 2Sa 15:31; 17:23; 2Ki 19:20,21; Job 22:27

Ps 91:15; Da 9:20-23; Ac 4:31

The virgin.

23:12; Jer 14:17; La 1:15; 2:13; Am 5:2

the daughter.

1:8; 10:32; 62:11; Ps 9:14; Zep 3:14; Zec 2:10; 9:9; Mt 21:5

hath despised.

8:9,10; 1Sa 17:36,44-47; Ps 2:2-4; 27:1-3; 31:18; 46:1-7

Joe 3:9-12

shaken.

Job 16:4; Ps 22:7,8; Mt 27:39

Whom hast.

10-13; Ex 5:2; 2Ki 19:4,22; 2Ch 32:17; Ps 44:16; 73:9; 74:18,23

Re 13:1-6

against whom.

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

Da 7:25; 2Th 2:4

the Holy One.

10:20; 12:6; 17:7; 30:11,12; 41:14,16; 43:3,14; Ex 15:11; Eze 39:7

Hab 1:12,13

thy servants. Heb. the hand of they servants.

4; 36:15-20; 2Ki 19:22,23

By the.

10:13,14; 36:9; Ex 15:9; Ps 20:7; Da 4:30

tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof. Heb.tallness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof.

10:18; 14:8; Eze 31:3-18; Da 4:8-14,20-22; Zec 11:1,2

of his Carmel. or, and his fruitful field.

29:17

with the sole.

36:12; 1Ki 20:10; 2Ki 19:23,24

besieged. or, fenced and closed.

long ago, etc. or, how I have made it long ago, and formedit of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?.

how I.

10:5,6,15; 45:7; 46:10,11; Ge 50:20; Ps 17:13; 76:10; Am 3:6

Ac 2:23; 4:27,28; 1Pe 2:8; Jude 1:4

their inhabitants.

19:16; Nu 14:9; 2Ki 19:26; Ps 127:1,2; Jer 5:10; 37:10

of small power. Heb. short of hand. as the grass of.

40:6-8; Ps 37:2; 90:5,6; 92:7; 103:15; 129:6; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24

I know.

Ps 139:2-11; Pr 5:21; 15:3; Jer 23:23,24; Re 2:13

abode. or sitting.

rage.

10; 36:4,10; 2Ki 19:27,28; Job 15:25,26; Ps 2:1-3; 46:6; 93:3,4

Na 1:9-11; Joh 15:22,23; Ac 9:4

tumult.

Ps 74:4,23; 83:2; Mt 27:24; Ac 22:22

will I.

30:28; Job 41:2; Ps 32:9; Eze 29:4; 38:4; Am 4:2

this shall.

7:14; 38:7; Ex 3:12; 1Ki 13:3-5; 2Ki 19:29; 20:9

Ye shall.

7:21-25; Le 25:4,5,20-22

remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah. Heb. escapingof the house of Judah that remaineth.

1:9; 6:13; 10:20-22; Jer 44:28

take.

27:6; 65:9; 2Ki 19:30,31; Ps 80:9; Jer 30:19; Ro 9:27; 11:5; Ga 3:29

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

20; 9:7; 59:17; 2Ki 19:31; Joe 2:18; Zec 1:14

He.

8:7-10; 10:32-34; 17:12,14; 33:20; 2Ki 19:32-35

shields. Heb. shield. cast.

Eze 21:22; Lu 19:43,44

29; Pr 21:30

I will.

31:5; 38:6; 2Ki 20:6

for mine.

43:25; 48:9-11; De 32:27; Eze 20:9; 36:22; Eph 1:6,14

and for.

1Ki 11:12,13,36; 15:4; Jer 23:5,6; 30:9; 33:15,16; Eze 37:24,25

the angel.

10:12,16-19,33,34; 30:30-33; 31:8; 33:10-12; Ex 12:23; 2Sa 24:16

2Ki 19:35; 1Ch 21:12,16; 2Ch 32:21,22; Ps 35:5,6; Ac 12:23

and when.

Ex 12:30; Job 20:5-7; 24:24; Ps 46:6-11; 76:5-7; 1Th 5:2,3

Sennacherib.

7,29; 31:9

Nineveh.

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

his god.

10; 14:9,12; 36:15,18; 2Ki 19:36,37; 2Ch 32:14,19,21

Armenia. Heb. Ararat.

Ge 8:4; Jer 51:27

Esar-haddon.Esar-haddon, called Asar-addinus in the Canon of Ptolemy, was the third son of Sennacherib; and having reigned twenty-nine years over the Assyrians, he took advantage of the anarchy and confusion which followed the death of Mesessimordacus, and seized upon Babylon; which he added to his former empire, and reigned over both for thirteen years; when he was succeeded by his son Saosduchinus, A.M. 3336, B.C. 668.

Ezr 4:2

Isaiah 38

1 Hezekiah, having received a message of death, by prayer has his life lengthened.

8 The sun goes ten degrees backward, for a sign of that promise.

9 His song of thanksgiving.

A.M. 3291. B.C. 718. was Hezekiah.

2Ki 20:1-11; 2Ch 32:24; Joh 11:1-5; Ac 9:37; Php 2:27-30

And Isaiah.

37:21; 39:3,4

Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thyhouse.

2Sa 17:23; Ec 9:10

for thou.

Jer 18:7-10; Jon 3:4,10

turned.Hezekiah's couch was probably placed in a corner, which is the place of honour in the East; in which, turning on either side, he must turn his face to the wall; by which he would withdraw himself from those attending him in his apartment.

1Ki 8:30; Ps 50:15; 91:15; Mt 6:6

Remember.

Ne 5:19; 13:14,22,31; Ps 18:20-27; 20:1-3; Heb 6:10

I have.

Ge 5:22,23; 6:9; 17:1; 1Ki 2:4; 2Ch 31:20,21; Job 23:11,12; Ps 16:8

Ps 32:2; Joh 1:47; 2Co 1:12; 1Jo 3:21,22

a perfect.

1Ki 15:14; 1Ch 29:9,19; 2Ch 16:9; 25:2; Ps 101:2; 119:80

wept.

2Sa 12:21,22; Ezr 10:1; Ne 1:4; Ps 6:8; 102:9; Ho 12:4; Heb 5:7

sore. Heb. with great weeping.

and say.

2Sa 7:3-5; 1Ch 17:2-4

God.

7:13,14; 1Ki 8:25; 9:4,5; 11:12,13; 15:4; 2Ch 34:3; Ps 89:3,4

Mt 22:32

I have heard.

2Ki 19:20; Ps 34:5,6; Lu 1:13; 1Jo 5:14,15

I have seen.

Ps 39:12; 56:8; 147:3; 2Co 7:6; Re 7:17

I will.

Job 14:5; Ps 116:15; Ac 27:24

12:6; 31:4; 37:35; 2Ch 32:22; 2Ti 4:17

22; 7:11-14; 37:30; Ge 9:13; Jud 6:17-22,37-39; 2Ki 20:8-21

I will bring.

Jos 10:12-14; 2Ki 20:11; 2Ch 32:24,31; Mt 16:1

the sun dial. Heb. the degrees by, or, with the sun.Or, as the Hebrew might be rendered, "the steps of Ahaz." The researches of curious travellers in Hindostan, observes Bp. Stock, have lately discovered in that country, three observatories of similar form, the most remarkable of which is to be seen within four miles of Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul empire. A rectangled triangle, whose hypotenuse is a staircase, (apparently parallel to the axis of the earth,) bisects a zone, or coping of a wall, which wall connects the two terminating towers at right and left. The coping itself is of a circular form, and accurately graduated, to mark, by the gnomon above, the sun's progress before and after noon.

writing.

12:1-6; Ex 15:1-21; Jud 5:1-31; 1Sa 2:1-10; Ps 18:1; *title

Ps 30:11,12; 107:17-22; 116:1-4; 118:18,19; Jon 2:1-9

he had.

De 32:39; 1Sa 2:6; Job 5:18; Ho 6:1,2We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song, which he penned by Divine direction, after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalms of David his father, as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, 2 Ch 29:30, but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of Divine inspiration, but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing, that he might review it himself afterwards, for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference, and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion.

2Ch 29:30

1; Job 6:11; 7:7; 17:11-16; 2Co 1:9

Job 35:14,15; Ps 6:4,5; 27:13; 31:22; 116:8,9; Ec 9:5,6

is removed.

Job 7:7; Ps 89:45-47; 102:11,23,24

as a.

1:8; 13:20

have cut.

Job 7:6; 9:25,26; 14:2; Jas 4:14

he will cut.

Job 7:3-5; 17:1; Ps 31:22; 119:23

with pining sickness. or, from the thrum.