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Verse Isaiah 37:38. _HIS SONS SMOTE HIM_] What an awful punishment of
his blasphemy! Who can harden his neck against God, and be successful?
God does not lightly pass by blasphemy against himself, his...
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AS HE WAS WORSHIPPING - Perhaps this time was selected because he
might be then attended with fewer guards, or because they were able to
surprise him without the possibility of his summoning his atten...
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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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HIS SONS... ESAR-HADDON. See note on 2 Kings 19:37....
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The official account of Sennacherib's death as given in the Babylonian
Chronicle (Col. 3:34 38) is as follows: "On 20 Tebet Sennacherib, king
of Assyria, was killed by his son in a revolt. [23] years...
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The flight of Sennacherib, and his death at Nineveh. If the passage be
a combination of two parallel narratives, the second ends with Isaiah
37:36, while Isaiah 37:37 form the conclusion of the first....
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THE HOUSE OF NISROCH HIS GOD— This was probably the tutelary deity
of that country, who might originally have been their king or
legislator, and might have been deified, as the custom was, to
preserve...
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5. THE PHENOMENON
TEXT: Isaiah 37:36-38
36
And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camps of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men
arose early in the mo...
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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon...
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The death of Sennacherib took place in 681 B.c., so that it did not
immediately follow the discomfiture of his army.
WITH THE SWORD] in fulfilment of Isaiah's words (Isaiah 37:7)....
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7. SEND.. HIM] RV 'put a spirit in him.'...
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Sennacherib had laughed at the *Lord as too weak to oppose the
*Assyrians. Now Sennacherib dies while he is *worshipping his own god
called Nisroch. So Sennacherib’s god was too weak to protect him,
e...
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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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AND IT CAME TO PASS. — The Assyrian inscriptions fill up the gap of
twenty years between the events which appear here, as if in immediate
sequence, with five campaigns in the north and east of the Ass...
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וַ יְהִי֩ ה֨וּא מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה
בֵּ֣ית ׀ נִסְרֹ֣ךְ...
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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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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword;
and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and (d) Esarhadd...
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38._While he was worshipping. _Here the Jews allow themselves that
liberty of conjecture in which they are always accustomed to indulge.
They contrive a stow, that Sennacherib consulted an oracle, and...
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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 IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WAS WORSHIPPING IN THE HOUSE OF NISROCH HIS
GOD,.... Josephus says z, in his temple, called Arasce; but Nisroch
was the name of his deity he worshipped; though who he was is...
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Isa. 37:38. God pours contempt not only on this great king, but on his
god. He had cast great contempt on the God of Israel, and made as
though He were unable to defend Jerusalem from his power, as Is...
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ARMENIA:
_ Heb._ Ararat...
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For the understanding of this, and the foregoing chapter, the reader
is desired to consult my notes upon 2 KINGS 18:1:21....
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YAHWEH REVEALS HIS OMNIPOTENCE AND HIS PROMISE IS FULFILLED (ISAIAH
37:36).
Having made His ‘boasts' Yahweh now fulfils them, so much so that
within one night the army of Assyria is decimated, and no...
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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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_His sons smote him with the sword_
SENNACHERIB’S IGNOMINY
The sacred history would seem to imply that this disastrous end came
at once; but here twenty years of ignominy count for nothing.
“The mi...
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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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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 37:36 God keeps his promise, vindicating
Hezekiah’s faith with a stunning demonstration of his power over his
enemies (see Isaiah 8:8;...
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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 Chronicles 32:14; 2 Chronicles 32:19; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 2 Kings
19:36;...