Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 37:38
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).
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).
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...
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...
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...
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...
HIS SONS... ESAR-HADDON. See note on 2 Kings 19:37....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
וַ יְהִי֩ ה֨וּא מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה בֵּ֣ית ׀ נִסְרֹ֣ךְ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
ARMENIA: _ Heb._ Ararat...
For the understanding of this, and the foregoing chapter, the reader is desired to consult my notes upon 2 KINGS 18:1:21....
Isaiah 37:38 worshiping H7812 (H8693) house H1004 Nisroch H5268 god H430 sons H1121 Adrammelech H152 Sharezer H8272 s
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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;...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:14; 2 Chronicles 32:19; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 2 Kings 19:36;...