2 Kings 18:17

_AND THE KING OF ASSYRIA SENT TARTAN AND RABSARIS AND RABSHAKEH FROM LACHISH TO KING HEZEKIAH WITH A GREAT HOST AGAINST JERUSALEM. AND THEY WENT UP AND CAME TO JERUSALEM. AND WHEN THEY WERE COME UP, THEY CAME AND STOOD BY THE CONDUIT OF THE UPPER POOL, WHICH IS IN THE HIGHWAY OF THE FULLER'S FIELD._ And the king of Assyria sent. The Hebrew copulative does not always indicate that the sentence which it commences records events that follow in immediate succession. There is sometimes a long interval of time between the subjects described in verses connected by this conjunction (see the notes at Genesis 1:2; Exodus 3:1, etc.) Here it serves to introduce the expedition of Sennacherib into Syria, which took place some years-two or more-after the first. It is, indeed, denied (Vance Smith, 'Prophecies on Nin

17-37 Rabshakeh tries to convince the Jews, that it was to no purpose for them to stand it out. What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? It were well if sinners would submit to the force of this argument, in seeking peace with God. It is, therefore, our wisdom to yield to him, because it is in vain to contend with him: what confidence is that which those trust in who stand out against him? A great deal of art there is in this speech of Rabshakeh; but a great deal of pride, malice, falsehood, and blasphemy. Hezekiah's nobles held their peace. There is a time to keep silence, as well as a time to speak; and there are those to whom to offer any thing religious or rational, is to cast pearls before swine. Their silence made Rabshakeh yet more proud and secure. It is often best to leave such persons to rail and blaspheme; a decided expression of abhorrence is the best testimony against...

Verse 2 Kings 18:17. _THE KING OF ASSYRIA SENT TARTAN, C._] Calmet has very justly remarked that these are not the names of _persons_, but of _offices_. _Tartan_, תרתן tartan or _tantan_, as in the parallel place in Isaiah, in the Greek version, signifies he who _presides_ over the _gifts_ or _tribute_ chancellor of the exchequer. _RABSARIS_] רב סריס, the _chief of the eunuchs_. _Rab-shakeh_, רב שקה master or _chief_ over the _wine cellar_; or he who had the care of the _king's drink_. _FROM LACHISH_] It seems as if the Assyrian troops had been _worsted_ before Lachish, and were obliged to raise the siege, from which they went and sat down before _Libnah_. While Sennacherib was there with the Assyrian army, he heard that _Tirhakah_, king of Ethiopia, ha

An interval of time must be placed between this verse and the last. Sennacherib, content with his successes, had returned to Nineveh with his spoil and his numerous captives. Hezekiah, left to himself, repented of his submission, and commenced negotiations with Egypt 2Ki 18:21, 2 Kings 18:24; Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 31:1, which implied treason against his Assyrian suzerain. It was under these circumstances that Sennacherib appears to have made his second expedition into Palestine very soon after the first. Following the usual coast route he passed through Philistia on his way to Egypt, leaving Jerusalem on one side, despising so irony a state, and knowing that the submis

EXPOSITION 18-25 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA. 2 KINGS 18:1 THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH. HIS SUCCESSES. HIS WAR WITH SENNACHERIB. 2 KINGS 18:1 THE EARLY YEARS Or HEZEKIAH. From his narrative of the destruction of the kingdom of Samaria, the writer

AND THE KING OF ASSYRIA SENT TARTAN AND RABSARIS, AND RABSHAKEH FROM LACHISH TO KING HEZEKIAH WITH A GREAT HOST AGAINST JERUSALEM,.... Notwithstanding he took the above large sum of money of him, so false and deceitful was he: these were three generals of his army, whom he sent to besiege Jerusalem, while he continued the siege of Lachish; only Rabshakeh is mentioned in Isaiah 36:2 he being perhaps chief general, and the principal speaker; whose speech, to the end of this chapter, intended to intimidate Hezekiah, and dishearten his people, with some circumstances which attended it, are recorded word for word in Isaiah 36:1 throughout; Isaiah 36:1 and notes on that chapter....

IV. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH AND AMON 1. Hezekiah and Sennacherib's Invasion CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Hezekiah, King of Judah (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 2 Chron. 29-32)_ 2. The Revival (2 Kings 18:4) 3. Victory over the Philistines (2 Kings 18:8) 4. Israel's captivity (2 Kings 18:9) 5. Sennacherib's invasion (2 Kings 18:13) 6. Sennacherib's messengers and message ...

2 KINGS 18:13 TO 2 KINGS 19:37. SENNACHERIB'S CAMPAIGN. 2 Kings 18:13. In the fourteenth year: if Hezekiah began to reign five years before the fall of Samaria (722 B.C.), and Sennacherib did not succeed till 706 B.C., this date cannot be correct. The king of Assyria took upwards of 200,000 Jewish captives. 2 Kings 18:14. Lachish (p. 28) was besieged by Sennacherib, and his exploits there are depicted on a bas-relief in the British Museum. 2 Kings 18:16. which Hezekiah overlaid: Skinner asks, Should it be Solo

KING OF ASSYRIA. Some suppose Sargon, and treat Sennacherib as. mistake here. But probably Sennacherib was the co-regent in the field. Compare Jerusalem's being taken by Nebuchadnezzar, while Nabo-polassar was king in Babylon. So Belshazzar was co-regent with Nabonnedus at the taking of Babylon. SENT. The gift of verses: 2 Kings 18:14 did not prevent. further assault. Compromise seldom does. TARTAN.. title. commander-in-chief. RABSARIS.. title. chief of the heads. RAB-SHAKEH.. title. chief of the captains; possibly. political officer. LACHISH. Ten miles south-east of Jerusalem, on Sennacherib's way to Egypt. See note on 2 Kings 19:8. GREAT HOST. heavy force. AGAINST JERUSALEM. See note on...

The Assyrian army sent against Jerusalem. Rab-shakeh's arguments for a surrender of the city (2 Chronicles 32:2-12; Isaiah 36:2-10) 17. _the king of Assyria sent Tartan_ In the light of the record in Chronicles, which says nothing of the previous proceedings of Sennacherib, we must consider that there was but one expedition, and that first came Hezekiah's submission, which was unavailing, and then followed the advance upon Jerusalem. We can imagine many things which induced Sennacherib not to keep faith with Hezekiah, but most probably it was the movements of the Egyptians in the south. Finding that they were advancing he would resolve on attacking and reducing Jerusalem before they arrived, and would care nothing for former compacts. _Tartan,_as well as the other two