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AND OF THAT SONS - Thy posterity (see the note at Matthew 1:1).
THAT SHALL ISSUE FROM THEE - Of the royal family. The captivity at
Babylon occurred more than a hundred years after this, and of course...
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CHAPTER 39
Hezekiah's Self-Exaltation
1. _The ambassadors of Merodach-baladan (Isaiah 39:1)_ 2. _Hezekiah's
boasting (Isaiah 39:2)_ 3. _Isaiah's inquiry (Isaiah 39:3)_ 4. The
Babylonian captivity ann...
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ISAIAH 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2
Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an
exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with th...
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THY SONS. Hezekiah had none as yet, and Jehovah's promise to David (2
Samuel 7:16) seemed in danger of failing. Manasseh was not born till
the third of the fifteen added years. Hence his reference to...
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This is the only occasion on which a prophecy of the Babylonian Exile
appears to be attributed to Isaiah. It is not easy to reconcile such a
prediction with the particular circumstances in which it is...
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The words _which thou shalt beget_seem, according to usage, to imply
that the calamity would fall on Hezekiah's own children....
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_Isaiah 39:7. They shall be eunuchs,_ &c. The Hebrew word סריסים
_sarisim,_ rendered _eunuchs,_ signifies great officers employed about
the person of the sovereign; and, as eunuchs were generally inve...
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2. PUNISHMENT
TEXT: Isaiah 39:5-8
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Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts.
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Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that
which thy fathers have...
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ALLIANCE WITH BABYLON DENOUNCED
Conclusion of the historical appendix. The chapter belongs to the
period when Merodach-Baladan of Babylon was making efforts to bring
the various peoples of W. Asia int...
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THY SONS] fulfilled in the captivity of Manasseh (2 Chronicles 33:11),
and later in the fate of Jehoiachin (2 Kings 25:27)....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 39
This chapter uses almost the same words as 2 Kings 20:12-19.
VISITORS FROM BABYLO...
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BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME... — The words, it may be noted, received a
two-fold fulfilment, under widely different conditions. Hezekiah’s
son Manasseh, at the time when Isaiah spoke unborn, was carried as...
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וּ מִ בָּנֶ֜יךָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֵצְא֧וּ
מִמְּךָ֛ אֲש
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CHAPTER XI
DRIFTING TO EGYPT
720-705 13. B.C.
Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1
FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
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This brief chapter tells the story of Hezekiah's folly. After his
recovery an embassy came from Babylon ostensibly to congratulate him.
That their real motive was sinister is evident from the attitude...
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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
shall they take away; and they shall be (f) eunuchs in the palace of
the king of Babylon.
(f) That is, officers and servants....
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7._Of thy sons _It might be thought that this was far more distressing
to Hezekiah, and therefore it is put last for the sake of heightening
the picture. Even though any calamity spread widely in a na...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39.
Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its
result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...
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AND OF THY SONS THAT SHALL ISSUE FROM THEE, WHICH THOU SHALT BEGET,
SHALL THEY TAKE AWAY,.... Manasseh his immediate son was taken and
carried to Babylon, though afterwards released; nor does it appea...
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THE BABYLONIAN EMBASSY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
Encouraged by the reverses which the Assyrian forces suffered in
Syria, one of the viceroys of Babylon, the Chaldean Merodach-baladan,
made himself, for a...
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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget,
his direct descendants, SHALL THEY TAKE AWAY, this being true even of
his son Manasseh, but particularly of the last kings of his li...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Isaiah 39:7 away H3947 (H8799) sons H1121 descend H3318 (H8799) beget
H3205 (H8686) eunuchs H5631 palace...
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CONTENTS: Hezekiah's folly. Babylonian captivity of Judah foretold.
CHARACTERS: Isaiah, Merodach-baladan, Hezekiah.
CONCLUSION: It is folly for one whom God has dignified to be overproud
of the resp...
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Isaiah 39:1. _Merodach-Baladan._ He is called Berodach in 2 Kings
20:12; and being the son of Baladan, he joined his father's name to
his own. Merodach is the name of an idol, and Baladan the name of...
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_Hear the word of the Lord of hosts_
ISAIAH’S PROPHECY OF THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
Jarchi directs attention to the exact correspondence of the punishment
with the offence.
As the Babylonians had se...
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_Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, King of Babylon, sent letters
and a present to Hezekiah_
MERODACH-BALADAN
Marduk-apal-iddina, son of Yakin, is the Chaldean ruler who more than
any other vassa...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 20:12, and scarcely differs from
it at all. Verse I has the additional words, "and was recovered;" 2
Kings 20:2, the phrase, "was glad of them," for "h...
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At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon,
sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he heard that he had been
sick, and that he had recovered (Isaiah 39:1).
Now here's anot...
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2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Chronicles 36:10; 2 Chronicles 36:20; 2 Kings
24:12;...