Verse Isaiah 37:27. Corn blasted] שדמה shedemah, parched: it does not appear that there is any good authority for this word. The true reading seems to be שדפה shedephah, blasted, as it is in six MSS. (two ancient) here, and in the other copy.
THEREFORE - Not because you have so great power; but because I have rendered them incapable of resisting you. WERE OF SMALL POWER - Hebrew, ‘Short of hand;’ they were feeble, imbecile, unable to resi...
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...
AS THE GRASS. Note Hezekiah's reference to this in his "Songs of the Degrees" (Psalms 129:6). App-67....
_Therefore their inhabitants … confounded_ Better, AND THEIR INHABITANTS (BEING) OF SMALL POWER (lit. "short of hand") WERE TERRIFIED AND ASHAMED. _grass on the housetops_ See Psalms 129:6-8. _corn b...
In all his successes the Assyrian has been but the unconscious instrument of Jehovah's eternal purpose. Cf. ch. Isaiah 10:5-15....
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...
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...
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...
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted befo...
37:27 powerless, (e-5) Lit. 'short of hand.'...
7. SEND.. HIM] RV 'put a spirit in him.'...
The *Assyrian king’s deeds were all part of God’s plan. Sennacherib is merely like a tool that God is using. So Sennacherib has no reason to be proud....
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...
The purpose of these verses is to make Hezekiah’s trust in God even stronger. • The *Lord seems to be speaking to Sennacherib. But the words are in fact for Hezekiah to hear. The *Lord is in total co...
THEREFORE. — Better, _and._ THEY WERE AS THE GRASS OF THE FIELD. — One symbol of weakness follows after another. The “grass upon the housetops” was, in this respect, a proverbial emblem (Psalms 129:6)...
וְ יֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ קִצְרֵי ־יָ֔ד חַ֖תּוּ וָ בֹ֑
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...
Therefore their inhabitants [were] of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as grain] bl...
27._For their inhabitants were maimed. _(63) Here the Prophet expresses more fully what he had formerly glanced at briefly, that we ought not to judge of the condition of the Church from the stability...
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:...
THEREFORE THEIR INHABITANTS WERE OF SMALL POWER,.... Or, "short of hand" u; it was not in the power of their hands to help themselves, because the Lord took away their strength, having determined that...
OF SMALL POWER: _ Heb._ short of hand...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 37:27 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) little H7116 power H3027 dismayed H2865 (H8804) confounded H954 (H8804) grass
YAHWEH'S REPLY. THE KING OF ASSYRIA IS BUT YAHWEH'S TOOL AND WILL BE DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY (ISAIAH 37:26). Yahweh's reply to Sennacherib is to point out what He has accomplished in the past. He want...
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...
_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 37:26 I DETERMINED IT LONG AGO. God does not simply respond to events as they happen; those events merely reveal his own long-intended purpose (see...
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...
1 Peter 1:24; 2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 19:16; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10;...