Isaiah 37:1
WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. See Hezekiah's reference to his love for, and use of, the Temple in his "Songs of the Degrees" (Psalms 122:1; Psalms 122:9; Psalms 134:1; Psalms 134:2. and App-67).... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. See Hezekiah's reference to his love for, and use of, the Temple in his "Songs of the Degrees" (Psalms 122:1; Psalms 122:9; Psalms 134:1; Psalms 134:2. and App-67).... [ Continue Reading ]
ELDERS OF THE PRIESTS. These now added to the embassy. Joah absent.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLASPHEMY. reproach. Note the reference to this in Hezekiah's "Song of Degrees".... [ Continue Reading ]
RABSHAKEH. the Rabshakeh. See note on Isaiah 36:2. LIFT UP THY PRAYER. Note the reference to Hezekiah's "Song of the Degrees".... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH SAID. The message in verses: Isaiah 37:6; Isaiah 37:7 is shorter and calmer than the second.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS DEPARTED FROM LACHISH: having raised the siege. See note on 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 19:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HEARD. The "rumour" of Isaiah 37:7. TIRHAKAH. The Taracus of the inscriptions. The third and last of Manetho's twenty-sixth dynasty. This reference to the Ethiopian dynasty in Isaiah's time is an "undesigned coincidence". ETHIOPIA. Judah's hope in Ethiopia was vain (See Isaiah 20:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUSTEST. confidest. Hebrew. _batah._... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL LANDS. all the earths: i.e. all such countries specially connected with Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOZAN, &C. These places are all in Mesopotamia. and Bezeph. The Hebrew pointing connects this with the next clause. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAMATH... ARPHAD... SEPHARVAIM. See notes on Isaiah 36:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPREAD IT, &C. See note on "lift up", &c. (Isaiah 37:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Isaiah 1:9, and 1 Samuel 1:3. GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 29:23. DWELLEST: or, sittest enthroned. THE. Hebrew He, the [God]. Compare 1 Kings 18:39. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [true] God. MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH. Note the reference to this in Hezekiah's... [ Continue Reading ]
EAR... EYES. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._... [ Continue Reading ]
NATIONS, AND THEIR COUNTRIES. Hebrew. _ha-arazoth... 'arzam_: as in Isaiah 37:11. The latter word put _by_ Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the people inhabiting the lands. Note also the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Some codices read "nations, and their land".... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN'S. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAVE US. Some codices add "I (or, we) pray Thee", Compare 2 Kings 19:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST PRAYED. See note on "lift up" (Isaiah 37:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
SHAKEN. WAGGED. Denoting derision and scorn.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 well as the past. LEBANON, &C. Compare 2 Kings 19:23. Fulfilling Isaiah 14:8 (see note there). As Han... [ Continue Reading ]
RIVERS. arms, or canals. Compare Isaiah 19:6, and Micah 7:12. BESIEGED PLACES. Hebrew. _matzor._ Put for Egypt.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORMED. purposed. Compare Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 30:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE GRASS. Note Hezekiah's reference to this in his "Songs of the Degrees" (Psalms 129:6). App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
ABODE. sitting down. GOING OUT, AND THY COMING IN. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for life in general... [ Continue Reading ]
TUMULT. arrogance. MY HOOK, &C. Assyrian sculptures represent captives thus led. Jehovah would treat them as they treated others. TURN THEE BACK. See Hezekiah's reference to this (Psalms 129:4; Psalms 129:6). App-67.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIGN. See note on Isaiah 7:11. YE SHALL EAT, &C. No seed would be sown on account of the (foretold) devastation wrought by the invasion. Hezekiah refers to this "sign" in his "Songs of the Degrees" (Psalms 126:5; Psalms 126:6; Psalms 128:2). GROWETH OF ITSELF. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 25:... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL. Hezekiah refers to Jehovah's repeated promises on which he relies (compare 2 Kings 19:30). See Psalms 121:2; Psalms 124:1; Psalms 124:6; Psalms 125:2; Psalms 126:2; Psalms 126:3; Psalms 127:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZEAL. jealousy. Reference to Pentateuch. Compare Isaiah 9:7. See App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEFEND. shield. See note on Isaiah 31:5. MY SERVANT. Three are so called in this book: David (here); Israel or Jacob (the nation) (Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:19; Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:4; Isaiah 48:20; Isaiah 49:3 and whole chapter); and Messiah ... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN, &C. Compare 2 Kings 19:35. THEY: i.e. the Israelites.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in this verse, to emphasize his departure and return, which leads up to what he returned for; also, that he did this without taking the city, Nebuchadnezzar makes no reference to this in his inscription.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS SONS... ESAR-HADDON. See note on 2 Kings 19:37.... [ Continue Reading ]