THOSE DAYS. About the time of the second invasion (2 Kings 18:13), but before the deliverance of 2 Kings 19:35. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SET THINE HOUSE IN ORDER. Give charge concerning thine house. See the Structure of Isa 36:39. DIE, AND NOT LIVE. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6),... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "Hezekiah". PRAYED. See note on 2 Kings 20:15. See his references to this in his "Songs of the degrees" (Psalms 120:1; Psalms 123:1; Psalms 130:1; Psalms 130:2); and App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
WALKED. walked to and fro: i.e. habitually walked. A PERFECT. whole, or undivided. WEPT SORE. Hebrew "wept with. great weeping". wept bitterly. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. See note on Genesis 26:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAME. The only occurrence of this in the case of Isaiah. Compare Genesis 15:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD OF DAVID (Hebrew. _Elohim._ This tells us the nature of Hezekiah's prayer. He had no heir to the throne, but remembered Jehovah's word to David in 2 Samuel 7:12. Hence his anxiety, as manifested in his "Songs of the degrees". Compare Psalms 127:3; Psalms 138; Psalms 132. See App-67. (Manasseh no... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTEEN YEARS. 603-588 B.C. DEFEND. be. shield to. Compare 2 Kings 19:34. MY SERVANT DAVID'S SAKE. See note on 2 Kings 20:5 and Psalms 132.... [ Continue Reading ]
LUMP. cake, or plaister.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN... ? Contrast Ahaz (Isaiah 7:11; Isaiah 7:12). GO UP INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. See note on 2 Kings 19:14, and App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEGREES. It is to these degrees that Hezekiah's fifteen Songs refer (Psa 120. 134). The word "degrees" is repeated here six times (in the history), but five times in Isaiah's gracious words (2Ki 38:8).... [ Continue Reading ]
DOWN. forward (2 Kings 20:9).... [ Continue Reading ]
DIAL. degrees. AHAZ. See note on 2 Kings 20:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
BERODAEH. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Merodach". Compare Isaiah 39:1. KING OF BABYLON. First occurrence of this title. Babylon and Nineveh the two great cities competing henceforward for supremacy in Assyria. Finally settled by Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar, "the head... [ Continue Reading ]
HEARKENED. He did not pray as in 2 Kings 20:2, or as in 2 Kings 19:15. See the notes and Isaiah 39:2, "was glad". ALL. Some codices, with Syriac and Vulgate, omit this "all". HIS. The depletion of 2 Kings 18:15; 2 Kings 18:16 was not of "his" house, but of the house of Jehovah as well as "the king... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CAME ISAIAH. He was to Hezekiah what Nathan was to David (2 Samuel 12:1). WHAT SAID... ? Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_: for God knew who the men were, and what they had said. A FAR COUNTRY. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, add "unto... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ INTO BABYLON. Compare 2 Chronicles 33:11, and see note on 2 Kings 20:12. A remarkable prophecy, as Babylon was of little account as yet (compare Isaiah 39:6). The return from Babylon was also foretold (Isa 48:49).... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY. Hebrew text reads "he". But some codices with. early printed editions, read "they". Compare Isaiah 39:7. EUNUCHS: i.e. courtiers, chamberlains, &c. Compare Genesis 37:36 and Daniel 1:3; Daniel 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOOD. Hezekiah's submission was like Eli's. Compare 1 Samuel 3:18. IS IT NOT GOOD, IF: or, Is it not that, &c. Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Septuagint reads "Let there be good".... [ Continue Reading ]
A POOL. the pool. Compare 2 Kings 18:17. The pool of Siloam fed by the conduit mentioned below. A CONDUIT. the conduit.. long underground channel discovered by Sir Charles Warren (in 1867) running from Gihon (now the Virgin's Fount) down to Siloam. An inscription found in it describes the making of... [ Continue Reading ]
SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. See note on Deuteronomy 31:16.... [ Continue Reading ]