Isaiah 37:1
_Sackcloth. Emblems of repentance. Sennacherib's boasting (ver. 13.) was chastised, ver. 36. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sackcloth. Emblems of repentance. Sennacherib's boasting (ver. 13.) was chastised, ver. 36. (Worthington)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXXVII. _ Spirit. Angel, or a different design, 2 Thessalonians ii. 8. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lands. Hebrew, "all the lands and their land." The parallel text is more correct, "the nations and their land." (Kennicott)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Carmel. See 4 Kings xix. (Challoner)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Shut, &c. Hebrew matsor, (Haydock) "of Egypt," where Sennacherib had been. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lips, and treat thee like some ungovernable beast. (Haydock) (Ezechiel xxix. 4., and xxxviii. 4.) (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thee. He directeth his speech to Ezechias._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Servant. Hence it plainly appears that God protects the living for the sake of the saints departed. To evade this proof, Protestants (Bible 1603) explain, "for God's promise sake made to David." But God never made any such promise to him; otherwise the city would never have been destroyed. (Worthin... [ Continue Reading ]
_They. The people of Jerusalem, or rather the soldiers of Ezechias, who saw those who had been slain, near Pelusium. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]