George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Kings 18:20
Counsel. Hebrew, "Thou sayest ( but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for the war." (Protestants) (Haydock) --- You have vainly boasted. (Calmet) --- Isaias xxvi. 5. (Calmet)
Counsel. Hebrew, "Thou sayest ( but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for the war." (Protestants) (Haydock) --- You have vainly boasted. (Calmet) --- Isaias xxvi. 5. (Calmet)
Hezekiah no doubt believed that in the “counsel” of Eliakim and Isaiah, and in the “strength” promised him by Egypt, he had resources which justified him in provoking a war. VAIN WORDS - literally, a...
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...
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 succ...
VAIN WORDS. Hebrew word of lips. lip-words....
_Thou sayest_, (_but_they are but _vain words_)] Some have taken the words in the parenthesis as the object of the verb, so that the sense would be -Thou speakest only vain words (when thou talkest ab...
B. SENNACHERIB'S INITIAL SURRENDER DEMANDS 18:17-19:7 The Assyrian king was not satisfied with the tribute paid by Hezekiah. He wanted nothing less than the total surrender of Jerusalem. While he hims...
_THOU SAYEST, (BUT THEY ARE BUT VAIN WORDS,) I HAVE COUNSEL AND STRENGTH FOR THE WAR. NOW ON WHOM DOST THOU TRUST, THAT THOU REBELLEST AGAINST ME?_ Thou sayest (but they are ... vain words), х_ DªBAR...
HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB This chapter describes the reign of Hezekiah of Judah, his religious reforms, and the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who sent one of his officers to deman...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 HEZEKIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Hezekiah, Ahaz’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. He did so in the 3rd y...
THOU SAYEST (BUT THEY ARE BUT VAIN WORDS). — Literally, _thou hast said_ — _a mere lip-word it was_ — _i.e.,_ insincere language, an utterance which thou knewest to be false. (Comp. our expression, “l...
אָמַ֨רְתָּ֙ אַךְ ־דְּבַר ־שְׂפָתַ֔יִם עֵצָ֥ה וּ...
HEZEKIAH AND ASSYRIA B.C. 701 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 19:1 "When, sudden-how think ye the end? Did I say ‘without friend'? Say rather from marge to blue marge The whole sky grew his targe, With...
HEZEKIAH B.C. 715-686 2 Kings 18:1 "For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his visi...
THREATENED BY WORLDLY MIGHT 2 Kings 18:13 It is an interesting fact that this siege of Lachish is mentioned on the Assyrian monuments, and Sennacherib is depicted as giving orders for its destruction...
We now begin the third section of this Book, which includes the story of the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah, with a period of reaction and sin between the two. It is remarkable that such a man as Hezek...
Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words), [I have] (f) counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? (f) You think that words will serve to persua...
Hezekiah is soon taught what a base wretch he had to do with, who not only took Hezekiah's gold, and then turned against him, with more force, in the perfidy of his heart, but even charged Hezekiah wi...
The kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, was now closed, not for ever, but for a season, and a season protracted long, even unto this day. There has been no restoration save in individuals. We know that Jeh...
_THE ONLY SURE HOPE_ ‘On whom dost thou trust?’ 2 Kings 18:20 The Christian conflict as keen as great Assyria and little Judæa. Worldly materialism: infidel thought against the besieged servants of...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 brings us to a rather different subject, namely, the relations of Judah with the Assyrian, who had become their oppressor through their...
2 Kings 18:17...
Thou sayest, (but [they are but] vain words,) [I have] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Ver. 20. Thou sayest (but they are but vain words...
_Thus saith the great king, What confidence is this_, &c. What is it thou canst trust in to defend thee from my great power? _Thou sayest_ Either to thy people, to encourage them, or rather, within th...
1 Hezekiah his good reigne. 4 He destroyeth idolatrie, and prospereth. 9 Samaria is caried captiue for their sins. 13 Sennacherib inuading Iudah, is pacified by a tribute. 17 Rabshakeh sent by Sen...
THE ASSYRIAN EXPEDITION AGAINST JERUSALEM...
Thou sayest, in a form of idle talking, ( BUT THEY ARE BUT VAIN WORDS, literally, "a mere word of the lips,") I HAVE COUNSEL AND STRENGTH FOR THE WAR. The mere idea of withstanding the power of the As...
THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH IN JUDAH (vv.1-16) In Judah the reign of Hezekiah provided a refreshing relief to the tendency of departure from God. It was during his reign that Assyria took Samaria into cap...
SAYEST: Or, talkest VAIN WORDS: _ Heb._ word of the lips I HAVE COUNSEL AND STRENGTH FOR THE WAR: Or, but counsel and strength are for the war...
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 thi...
THOU SAYEST; either to thy people, to encourage them; or rather, within thyself. BUT THEY ARE BUT VAIN WORDS, or, _surely_, or, _only words of the lips_, i.e. vain, unprofitable, idle talk, without an...
2 Kings 18:20 speak H559 (H8804) plans H6098 power H1369 war H4421 mere H8193 words H1697 trust H982 ...
CONTENTS: Reign and revival of Hezekiah over Judah. Victory over Phillistines. Invasion of Sennacherib. Insolence of Rab-shekeh. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Eliakim,...
2 Kings 18:4. _Nehushtan;_ that is, _their brass,_ or mere brass, or _parvum æs,_ corrupted brass, by way of contempt. In the Chronicum of Alexander, cited by Eusebius out of Anestasio Niceno, we are...
_Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea._ A STRIKING REFORMATION, A RUTHLESS DESPOTISM, AND AN UNPRINCIPLED DIPLOMACY I. A striking reformation (2 Kings 18:3). 1. The perverting tendency of...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:1 Hezekiah. In 715 B.C., seven years after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, Hezekiah comes to the throne in Judah. He resembles David more closely than any other...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:19 Sennacherib’s men claim that EGYPT will not help Hezekiah. They also claim that TRUST IN THE LORD is useless, because the Lord is angry with Hezekiah fo
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 18:13. IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF HEZEKIAH DID SENNACHERIB, &c.—_Comp._ Isaiah 36. This mighty Assyrian was with his vast army on his way to war with his hated...
EXPOSITION 18-25 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA. 2 KINGS 18:1 THE ACCESSION
In chapter eighteen we now move back to the southern kingdom of Judah. Inasmuch as the northern kingdom has now been destroyed from the rest of the... from the rest of Second Kings on we'll be dealing...
2 Kings 18:14; Proverbs 21:30; Proverbs 21:31...