2 Kings 19:1
IT CAME TO PASS. Compare Isaiah 37:1. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT CAME TO PASS. Compare Isaiah 37:1. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH. The first occurrence in the historical books. Hezekiah was one of the four kings in whose reign he prophesied (Isaiah 1:1). The Chapter s in Isaiah which refer to these events are 2 Kings 10:5; 2 Kings 12:6; 2 Kings 14:21. 2Ki 17:12-14. 2 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 17:29 2 Kings 17:33. 2 Kings 1 [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. ALL. Some codices, with Syriac, omit "all". REPROACH. disparage, taunt, or flout. LIFT UP THY PRAYER. Hezekiah's "Songs of the degrees" witness to this prayer in his distress. See Psalms 120:1; Psalms 130:1; Psalms 130:2. App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH. In Greek (N.T.). Esaias. BLASPHEMED. reviled, or vilified.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._. A BLAST. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. HEAR. RUMOUR. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), "hear. hearing" =. hear. serious report. See note on Genesis 26:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEPARTED FROM LACHISH. Sennacherib had laid siege against it (2 Chronicles 32:9), but had found it difficult, as Joshua had (Joshua 10:31; Joshua 10:32, "the second day"); and "left" it untaken (Jeremiah 34:7).... [ Continue Reading ]
TIRHAKAH. An Ethiopian by birth; king of Egypt by conquest. Defeated later by Esarhaddon, son of Sennacherib, after fifteen days' battle. Esarhaddon is shown on. _stele,_ recently discovered, leading Tirhakah with cords.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUSTEST. confidest. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALT THOU BE DELIVERED? Note the Figure of speech _Erotesis_ here, and in verses: 2 Kings 19:12; 2 Kings 19:13, and 2 Kings 19:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAMATH, &C. See note on 2 Kings 18:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. Hezekiah's zeal for the house of Jehovah is seen in his "Songs of the degrees". Compare Psalms 122:1; Psalms 122:9; Psalms 134:1; Psalms 134:2. See App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAYED. When assaulted by the king of terrors he "turned his face to the wall and prayed" (Isaiah 38:2). But when the king of Babylon came with. present he did not pray, and fell into the snare (Isaiah 39:1; Isaiah 39:2). Note the Structure of Isaiah, chs. 36, 39, and see App-67. DWELLEST. Compare... [ Continue Reading ]
LIVING GOD. Always used in contrast with idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THEE. AFTER THEE: i.e. after she hath seen thy back turned.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD*. This is one of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ altered "Jehovah" to "Adonai" (App-32). WILL-HAVE, as in 2 Kings 19:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
DONE IT. made it: i.e. the earth.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE GRASS, &C. Note Hezekiah's reference to this in his "Song of the degrees" (Psalms 129:5). See App-67. BLASTED. blighted.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABODE, &C.. downsitting, and thy outgoing, and thy incoming. THY RAGE. thy enraging thyself. Very emphatic. The Hithpael gerund occurs only here and Isaiah 37:28; Isaiah 37:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
TUMULT. arrogance. TURN THEE BACK. See the reference to this in Hezekiah's "Song of the degrees" (Psalms 129:4; Psalms 129:5). See App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
EAT THIS YEAR, &C. See the reference to Jehovah's sign in Hezekiah's "Songs of the degrees" (Psalms 126:5; Psalms 126:6; Psalms 128:2). See App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF JERUSALEM... REMNANT: i.e. the country people who had retired into Jerusalem for safety. REMNANT. Compare 2 Kings 19:4, and see Isaiah 10:20. THE LORD OF HOSTS. Jehovah of hosts. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "of hosts" in t... [ Continue Reading ]
CAST. BANK: i.e. erect an earthwork.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEFEND. spread, or be. shield over. FOR MINE OWN SAKE. Man's sins cannot foil God's purpose. He does not go outside of His own will to explain His actions in grace.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT CAME TO PASS. Compare 2Ki 37:36. THAT NIGHT: i.e. the night of the prophecy when the promise was fulfilled. Compare "that day" (Luke 21:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:4). THE ANGEL OF THE LORD: i.e. the destroying Angel. Compare 2 Samuel 24:16. THEY: i.e. the king and his people. DEAD CORPSES. Figure... [ Continue Reading ]
DEPARTED. There is no mention of the capture of Jerusalem in Sennacherib's inscription. This omission is more remarkable than what Sennacherib says. Had he taken Jerusalem, the omission would be unaccountable. Compare 2 Chronicles 32:21 and Psalms 129:4; Psalms 129:5. AND. Note the Figure of speech... [ Continue Reading ]
NISROCH. Mentioned in the inscriptions. HIS SONS.. cylinder recently acquired (1910) by, and now in the British Museum, states: "On the twentieth day of the month Tebet (Dee.), Sennacherib, king of Assyria, his son slew him in. rebellion. "The rebellion (it says) lasted till the twenty-eighth of Si... [ Continue Reading ]