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Verse Isaiah 37:24. _BY THY SERVANTS_ - "By thy messengers"] The text
has עבדיך _abdeycha, thy servants_; but the true reading seems to
be מלאכיך _malacheycha, thy messengers_, as in the other copy,...
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BY THY SERVANTS - Hebrew, ‘By the hand of thy servants.’ That is,
by Rabshakeh Isaiah 36, and by those whom he had now sent to Hezekiah
with letters Isaiah 37:9, Isaiah 37:14....
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CHAPTER 37
Hezekiah in the House of the Lord and Sennacherib's Second Attempt
1. _Hezekiah's humiliation and Isaiah sent for (Isaiah 37:1)_ 2. _The
message from the prophet (Isaiah 37:6)_ 3. Rabshake...
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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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LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ changed "Jehovah" of
the primitive text to "Adonai".
AM. COME UP. have. scaled. Compare Isaiah 36:10. These boasts probably
refer to the future as we...
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The king of Assyria is represented as boasting of the ease with which
he triumphs over all natural obstacles in the pursuance of his plans;
such language is blasphemy against Jehovah, the Lord of Natu...
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For _servants_2 Kings has "messengers," as in Isaiah 37:9_; Isaiah
37:14_.
_am I come up_ Better, I GO UP. The "I" is emphatic.
_the sides of Lebanon_means its RECESSES (R.V. "innermost parts").
_th...
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The answer to the prayer comes in the form of a message from Isaiah.
The message as here given really consists of two distinct oracles: (1)
a poem, on the pride and the approaching humiliation of Senn...
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The poem on Sennacherib is in substance a Taunt-song; but in form an
elegy, written in the measure characteristic of the _qînâh_. The
first two lines (Isaiah 37:22) read:
SHE HATH DESPISED THEE, HAT...
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BY THE MULTITUDE OF MY CHARIOTS— Cities, in the prophetical
writings, are metaphorically represented by woods or forests,
especially those of _Lebanon_ and _Carmel;_ and the several ranks of
inhabitan...
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4. THE PRONOUNCEMENT
TEXT: Isaiah 37:21-35
21
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against
Sennacherib king...
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By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains,
to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars...
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37:24 field. (a-60) Or 'forest of his Carmel.'...
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SIDES] RV 'innermost PARTS.' THE HEIGHT.. CARMEL] RV 'his farthest
height, the forest of his fruitful field.'...
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7. SEND.. HIM] RV 'put a spirit in him.'...
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People in that region were familiar with the use of impressive
language. But Sennacherib so very greatly *exaggerates his actions
that his proud words sound stupid.
• For example, not even Sennacheri...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 37
HEZEKIAH ASKS ISAIAH FOR ADVICE
V1 When king Hezekiah heard the report from his th...
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BY THE MULTITUDE OF MY CHARIOTS. — The words refer apparently to the
taunt of Isaiah 36:8. The inscriptions of the Assyrian king are full
of like boasts. Shalmaneser, “Trackless paths and difficult
mo...
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בְּ יַ֣ד עֲבָדֶיךָ֮ חֵרַ֣פְתָּ ׀
אֲדֹנָי֒ וַ...
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CHAPTER XXVI
HAD ISAIAH A GOSPEL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL?
THE two narratives, in which Isaiah's career culminates-that of the
Deliverance of Jerusalem Isaiah 36:1; Isaiah 37:1 and that of the
Recovery of...
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Penitently, went Hezekiah immediately into the house of the Lord,
while he sent messengers to Isaiah. The prophet sent them back with
words of encouragement, declaring that God would deliver them. In...
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_Carmel. See 4 Kings xix. (Challoner)_...
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24._By the hand of thy servants. _This also heightens the baseness and
cruelty of the insult, for it is harder to bear reproaches from a
servant than from his master, the insult being rendered more gr...
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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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BY THY SERVANTS HAST THOU REPROACHED THE LORD,.... Particularly by
Rabshakeh, and the other two that were with him, who, no doubt,
assented to what he said; not content to reproach him himself, he set...
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BY THY SERVANTS:
_ Heb._ by the hand of thy servants
THE TALL CEDARS THEREOF:
_ Heb._ the tallness of the cedars thereof, and the choice of the firr
trees thereof
FOREST OF HIS CARMEL:
Or, the fo...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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YAHWEH'S REPLY THROUGH ISAIAH (ISAIAH 37:21).
Isaiah 37:21
‘Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says
Yahweh the God of Israel, In lieu of the fact that you have prayed to
me a...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's message to the people by Isaiah. Sennacherib's
message to Hezekiah. Hezekiah's prayer and Jehovah's answer.
Destruction of Assyrians.
CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Eliakim, Shebna, I...
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Isaiah 37:3. _This is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of
blasphemy._ What moral idea can we form of a conqueror? A man hailed,
adored, and applauded by the world. History is full of his fame, and...
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_And Hezekiah received the letter. .. and read it. .. and spread it
before the Lord_
HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE
In the struggles, defeats, and final triumph of the ancient people of
God in the...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the sequel of the preceding, and is so closely
connected with it that the two really constitute but one narrative.
Isaiah 37:22 of Isaiah 36:1. is more closely connected wit...
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And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his
clothes (Isaiah 37:1),
Yeah, man, it is bad. Rip, you know.
and he covered himself with sackcloth (Isaiah 37:1),
Now sackcloth was...
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2 Kings 19:22; 2 Kings 19:23; Daniel 4:20; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:8;...