Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
2 Kings 18:28
Verse 28. Hear the word of the great king - of Assyria] This was all intended to cause the people to revolt from their allegiance to their king.
Verse 28. Hear the word of the great king - of Assyria] This was all intended to cause the people to revolt from their allegiance to their king.
IV. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH AND AMON 1. Hezekiah and Sennacherib's Invasion CHAPTER 18 _ 1. Hezekiah, King of Judah (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 2 Chron. 29-32)_ 2. The Revival (2 Kings 18:4) 3...
WORD. message. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "words"....
_with a loud voice_ To prove that it was to the people on the wall that his message was sent. If he could provoke them to desert their king, Jerusalem would soon be in the power of the Assyrians....
B. SENNACHERIB'S INITIAL SURRENDER DEMANDS 18:17-19:7 The Assyrian king was not satisfied with the tribute paid by Hezekiah. He wanted nothing less than the total surrender of Jerusalem. While he hims...
_THEN RABSHAKEH STOOD AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE IN THE JEWS' LANGUAGE, AND SPAKE, SAYING, HEAR THE WORD OF THE GREAT KING, THE KING OF ASSYRIA:_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB This chapter describes the reign of Hezekiah of Judah, his religious reforms, and the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, who sent one of his officers to deman...
THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH BOOK OF 2 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 18 HEZEKIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH V1 Hezekiah, Ahaz’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. He did so in the 3rd y...
STOOD. — _Came forward, i.e.,_ nearer to the wall. (Comp. 1 Kings 8:22.) THE WORD. — LXX. and Vulg., _words;_ so Isaiah....
וַֽ יַּעֲמֹד֙ רַב־שָׁקֵ֔ה וַ יִּקְרָ֥א בְ קֹו
HEZEKIAH B.C. 715-686 2 Kings 18:1 "For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great and faithful in his visi...
HEZEKIAH AND ASSYRIA B.C. 701 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 19:1 "When, sudden-how think ye the end? Did I say ‘without friend'? Say rather from marge to blue marge The whole sky grew his targe, With...
SILENT BEFORE THE BOASTER 2 Kings 18:26 The Jews met the taunts of Rabshakeh with silence. It was wise policy. It is infinitely better to hand over our cause to God, and leave Him to answer for us an...
We now begin the third section of this Book, which includes the story of the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah, with a period of reaction and sin between the two. It is remarkable that such a man as Hezek...
The modest request of Hezekiah's servants to speak in the Syrian language, meeting with such contempt, may serve to teach us how confident of success the blasphemer was. And it only serves to heighten...
The kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, was now closed, not for ever, but for a season, and a season protracted long, even unto this day. There has been no restoration save in individuals. We know that Jeh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 brings us to a rather different subject, namely, the relations of Judah with the Assyrian, who had become their oppressor through their...
2 Kings 18:17...
Then Rabshakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria: Ver. 28. _Hear the word of the great king._] See on 2...
_Hath he not sent me to the men_, &c. To tell them to what extremity and misery he will force them. _Then Rab-shakeh cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language_ That he might affright the people in...
1 Hezekiah his good reigne. 4 He destroyeth idolatrie, and prospereth. 9 Samaria is caried captiue for their sins. 13 Sennacherib inuading Iudah, is pacified by a tribute. 17 Rabshakeh sent by Sen...
THE ASSYRIAN EXPEDITION AGAINST JERUSALEM...
Then Rabshakeh stood, deliberately approaching and facing the wall, AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE IN THE JEWS' LANGUAGE, AND SPAKE, SAYING, HEAR THE WORD OF THE GREAT KING, WHO HAS SO MANY TRIBUTARY VAS...
THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH IN JUDAH (vv.1-16) In Judah the reign of Hezekiah provided a refreshing relief to the tendency of departure from God. It was during his reign that Assyria took Samaria into cap...
17-37 Rabshakeh tries to convince the Jews, that it was to no purpose for them to stand it out. What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? It were well if sinners would submit to the force of thi...
IN THE JEWS LANGUAGE, that he might affright the people into a compliance with him, which he perceived Eliakim and his brethren endeavour to prevent....
2 Kings 18:28 Rabshakeh H7262 stood H5975 (H8799) called H7121 (H8799) loud H1419 voice H6963 Hebrew H3066 spoke
CONTENTS: Reign and revival of Hezekiah over Judah. Victory over Phillistines. Invasion of Sennacherib. Insolence of Rab-shekeh. CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Eliakim,...
2 Kings 18:4. _Nehushtan;_ that is, _their brass,_ or mere brass, or _parvum æs,_ corrupted brass, by way of contempt. In the Chronicum of Alexander, cited by Eusebius out of Anestasio Niceno, we are...
_Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea._ A STRIKING REFORMATION, A RUTHLESS DESPOTISM, AND AN UNPRINCIPLED DIPLOMACY I. A striking reformation (2 Kings 18:3). 1. The perverting tendency of...
2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:26 PLEASE SPEAK TO YOUR SERVANTS IN ARAMAIC. Aramaic was the language of the Assyrian Empire west of the Euphrates. The educated Judean royal officials would have understood...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 2 Kings 18:13. IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF HEZEKIAH DID SENNACHERIB, &c.—_Comp._ Isaiah 36. This mighty Assyrian was with his vast army on his way to war with his hated...
EXPOSITION 18-25 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA. 2 KINGS 18:1 THE ACCESSION
In chapter eighteen we now move back to the southern kingdom of Judah. Inasmuch as the northern kingdom has now been destroyed from the rest of the... from the rest of Second Kings on we'll be dealing...
2 Chronicles 32:18; 2 Kings 18:19; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 31:3;...
Jews language — The tradition of the Jews is, that Rabshaketh was an apostate Jew. If so, his ignorance of the God of Israel was the less excusable, and his enmity the less strange: for apostates are...