CHAPTER XXXVI _Sennacherib, king of Assyria, comes against Judah, and takes_ _all the fenced cities_, 1. _He afterwards sends a great host against Jerusalem; and his_ _general Rabshakeh delivers an insulting and blasphemous message_ _to Hezekiah_, 2-20. _Hezekiah and his people are greatly aff... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:3. _THEN CAME FORTH UNTO HIM_] Before these words the other copy, 2 Kings 18:18, adds, ויקראו אל המלך _vaiyikreu el hammelech_, "And they demanded audience of the king.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:5. _I SAY _- "Thou hast said"] _Fourteen_ MSS. (_three_ ancient) of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ have it in the second person, אמרת _amarta_; and so the other copy, 2 Kings 18:20. _BUT_ THEY ARE BUT _VAIN WORDS_] דבר שפתים _debar sephathayim, a_ _word of the lips_. Thou dost talk... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:6. _THE STAFF OF THIS BROKEN REED_] A weakened, faithless ally. _ON EGYPT_] The Bodl. MS. adds מלך _melech, the king of Egypt_; and so perhaps the _Chaldee_ might read. _IT WILL GO INTO HIS HAND, AND PIERCE IT_] Will take subsidy after subsidy, and do nothing for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:7. _BUT IF THOU SAY_ - "But if ye say"] _Two_ ancient MSS. have תאמרו _tomeru_ in the plural number; so likewise the _Septuagint,_ _Chaldee_, and the other copy, 2 Kings 18:22. _YE SHALL WORSHIP BEFORE THIS ALTAR_ - "To worship only before this altar"] See 2 Chronicles 32:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:10. _AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD_] Probably some apostate Israelitish priest might have encouraged the king of Assyria by telling him that JEHOVAH had given him a commission against Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:12. _THAT THEY MAY EAT THEIR OWN DUNG_ - "Destined to eat their own dung"] לאכל _leechol, that they may eat_, as our translation literally renders it. But the _Syriac_ reads מאכל _meechol, that they may not eat_, perhaps rightly, and afterward ומשתות _umishshethoth_, or ושתות _usheth... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:15. _THIS CITY SHALL NOT BE DELIVERED_] ולא _velo, AND this_ _city_. _Ten_ of _Kennicott's_ MSS., and _nine_ of _De Rossi's_, with _one_ (ancient) of my own, add the _conjunction_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:16. _MAKE AN AGREEMENT_] ברכה _berachah, make a blessing with_ _me_; i.e., Give me a ransom for the city, and I will not destroy it; give me the yearly tribute thou hast promised.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:17. _AND VINEYARDS_] The other copy, 2 Kings 18:32, adds here: "A land of oil-olive, and of honey; that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he seduceth you.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:19. _WHERE ARE THE GODS_] Many MSS. add the conjunction here also: _And_, or _But, where_ are _the gods_, c. For other matters relative to this chapter, 2 Kings 18:13, c. _OF SEPHARVAIM_] The other copy, 2 Kings 18:34, adds, of "Henah and Ivah." _HAVE THEY DELIVERED_] וכי _vechi_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 36:21. _BUT THEY HELD THEIR PEACE _- "But the people held their peace"] The word העם _haam, the people_, is supplied from the other copy, and is authorized by a MS. which inserts it after אתו _otho_.... [ Continue Reading ]