Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Isaiah 37:23
Verse Isaiah 37:23. Against the Holy One of Israel.] For אל el, to, the other copy has על al, against, rather more properly.
Verse Isaiah 37:23. Against the Holy One of Israel.] For אל el, to, the other copy has על al, against, rather more properly.
WHEN HAST THOU REPROACHED? - Not an idol. Not one who has no power to take vengeance, or to defend the city under his protection, but the living God. EXALTED THY VOICE - That is, by thy messenger. Th...
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...
THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 1:4....
The answer to the prayer comes in the form of a message from Isaiah. The message as here given really consists of two distinct oracles: (1) a poem, on the pride and the approaching humiliation of Senn...
The poem on Sennacherib is in substance a Taunt-song; but in form an elegy, written in the measure characteristic of the _qînâh_. The first two lines (Isaiah 37:22) read: SHE HATH DESPISED THEE, HAT...
"What sort of being is He whom thou hast defied?" The first two sentences are rhetorical questions, and require no answer. The last sentence is to be read as an affirmation: YEA, THOU HAST LIFTED UP T...
4. THE PRONOUNCEMENT TEXT: Isaiah 37:21-35 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king...
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. WHOM HAST THOU REPROACHED? - Not an i...
7. SEND.. HIM] RV 'put a spirit in him.'...
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...
WHOM HAST THOU REPROACHED... — The manifold iteration of the question emphasises the force of the answer. The “Holy One of Israel,” at whom the scornful revellers had sneered (Isaiah 30:11), was now s...
אֶת ־מִ֤י חֵרַ֨פְתָּ֙ וְ גִדַּ֔פְתָּ וְ עַל
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...
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted thy eyes on high? [even] against the (p) Holy One of Israel. (p) Declaring by this that they who a...
23._Whom hast thou reproached? _In the former verse he describes the fact, such as it might be seen and beheld by all; but now he raises their minds higher, by shewing that this tyrant insults not onl...
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:...
WHOM HAST THOU REPROACHED AND BLASPHEMED?.... A creature like thyself? no, but a God, and not one like the gods of the nations, the idols of wood and stone, but the living God: AND AGAINST WHOM HAST...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 37:23 reproached H2778 (H8765) blasphemed H1442 (H8765) raised H7311 (H8689) voice H6963 up H5375 ...
YAHWEH'S REPLY THROUGH ISAIAH (ISAIAH 37:21). Isaiah 37:21 ‘Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, In lieu of the fact that you have prayed to me a...
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...
_Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?_ ISAIAH’S SAVING IDEA OF GOD Isaiah in his day saved Jerusalem by teaching the people a better idea of their God. For forty years he had been witnessing to...
_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...
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 32:17; 2 Kings 19:22; 2 Kings 19:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:4;...