2 Kings 19:19

Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, savethou us The R.V. puts -I beseech thee" after -save thou us" that being the order of the Hebrew sentence. There is no Hebrew in Isaiah for -I beseech thee".

that all the kingdoms of the earth may know It is remarkable how the loftiest souls among the Jews felt that their nation was meant to be God's witness to the rest of the world. Such sentiments are found not seldom in the prophecies and psalms. Cf. also 1 Samuel 18:4-6 and the marginal references there. That case, which is David's conquest of Goliath, may be aptly compared with this. For all men would understand if Sennacherib now were conquered it was not by the power of Jerusalem only, but by the hand of Him who had put His name there, just as David had said -The battle is the Lord's".