IT CAME TO PASS. Note the insertion of these historical events in the midst of prophecy, corresponding with those concerning the reign of Ahaz. Compare 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 20:19, on which Isaiah is not dependent, and 2 Chronicles 32:1, which is not dependent on either (see App-56). This history i... [ Continue Reading ]
RABSHAKEH: or, "political officer". Probably. renegade Jew. LACHISH. Now _Tell el Hesy_, or _Umm Lakis_. See the work on the excavations there, published by the "Palestine Exploration Fund". Compare note on 2 Kings 18:17, and 2 Kings 19:8. WITH. GREAT ARMY. Foretold in Isaiah 29:1, as foretold in... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIAKIM. See and Compare Isaiah 22:20. The promise of Isaiah 22:20; Isaiah 22:21 was already fulfilled. HOUSE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for household. Eliakim fulfils Shebna's office, as foretold in Isa 22:15-26. SHEBNA. See Isaiah 22:15. SCRIBE: or, secretary. Title used o... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT KING. Contrast Psalms 47:2. TRUSTEST. hast confided. Hebrew. _batah._ App-69. See Hezekiah's "Songs of the Degrees" (Psalms 121:3; Psalms 125:1; Psalms 125:2; Psalms 127:1; Psalms 130:5. and App-67).... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAY, SAYEST THOU. Some codices read "Thou sayest", as in 2 Kings 18:20. VAIN WORDS. lip-talk. Hebrew word of lips.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU. Some codices read "ye", as in 2 Kings 18:22. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. IS IT NOT HE... ? Manifesting Rabshakeh's ignorance.... [ Continue Reading ]
MASTER. Hebrew. _Adonai_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
EGYPT. Hezekiah at first looked for help there (See Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 30:2; 2 Kings 18:21).... [ Continue Reading ]
AM. COME UP. As foretold twenty-eight years before (Isaiah 10:6). If Rabshakeh knew of this, it shows the falsehood of "half the truth".... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID, &C. This led only to grosser insults. JEWS. The name by which the People were known of old, to foreigners. See note on Isaiah 36:2. No proof of. later authorship. "Hebrew" is the later word for the _language_ (Compare Isaiah 19:18).... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAK THESE WORDS. See App-67. SIT UPON THE WALL. maintain their posts: i.e. till reduced to these extremities.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS CITY. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and this city": i.e. "this city".... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY ONE. man, as in Isaiah 36:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE YOU AWAY. As he did Israel (2 Kings 18:11). WINE. new wine. Hebrew. _tirosh_. App-27. BREAD. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for all kinds of food. HATH, &C. ?. [Reflect]: Hath, &c?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHERE: or, Why, where. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "Where then".... [ Continue Reading ]