Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 37:18
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and (m) their countries,
(m) Meaning, the ten tribes.
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and (m) their countries,
(m) Meaning, the ten tribes.
Verse Isaiah 37:18. _THE NATIONS_] הארצות _haratsoth_, "the lands;" instead of this word, which destroys the sense, _ten_ of _Kennicott's_ and _five_ of _De Rossi's_ MSS. (_one_ ancient) have here גו...
OF A TRUTH - It is as he has said, that all the nations had been subjected to the arms of the Assyrian. He now intends to add Jerusalem to the number of vanquished cities and kingdoms, and to boast; t...
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...
NATIONS, AND THEIR COUNTRIES. Hebrew. _ha-arazoth... 'arzam_: as in Isaiah 37:11. The latter word put _by_ Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the people inhabiting the lands. Note also the...
Hezekiah's prayer in the Temple. Cheyne refers to a striking parallel in the Egyptian version of Sennacherib's overthrow. "On this the monarch (Sethos), greatly distressed, entered into the inner sanc...
_all the nations, and their countries_ R.V., following the received text, has "all the countries (lit., lands) and their land." But the true reading is preserved in the corresponding verse of 2 Kings,...
HAVE LAID WASTE ALL THE NATIONS, &C.— This is literally in the Hebrew, _All the lands and their land;_ but our translation undoubtedly gives the proper sense. See 2 Kings 19:17....
3. THE PRAYER TEXT: Isaiah 37:14-20 14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah....
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, KINGS OF ASSYRIA HAVE LAID WASTE - conceding the truth of the Assyrian's allegation (Isaiah 36:18), that...
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...
The meaning is not every nation across the entire world. But the *Assyrians defeated every country that they chose to attack....
OF A TRUTH, LORD... — The facts of Rabshakeh’s induction are admitted, but the inference denied, on the ground that the cases were not parallel. The gods of the nations had been cast into the fire (an...
אָמְנָ֖ם יְהוָ֑ה הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ מַלְכֵ֥י אַשּׁ֛וּר אֶת...
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...
_Lands. Hebrew, "all the lands and their land." The parallel text is more correct, "the nations and their land." (Kennicott)_...
18.and 19._Truly, O Jehovah. _Here Hezekiah begins to distinguish between the false gods and the true God, which we also ought to do very carefully. Wicked men, who have no light, indulge in some conf...
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:...
OF A TRUTH LORD,.... This is a truth and will be readily owned what the king of Assyria has said that his ancestors have destroyed all lands, or at least have endeavoured to do it, and have had it in...
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries, the nations and their land,...
THE EFFECT OF SENNACHERIB'S BOAST UPON HEZEKIAH...
NATIONS: _ Heb._ lands...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Isaiah 37:18 Truly H551 LORD H3068 kings H4428 Assyria H804 waste H2717 (H8689) nations H776 lands H776...
KING HEZEKIAH SEEKS TO YAHWEH (ISAIAH 37:14). Isaiah 37:14 ‘And Hezekiah received the message from the hand of the messengers and read it, and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh and spread it b...
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...
A KING’S PRAYER Isaiah 37:15. _And Hezekiah prayed, &c._ I. HEZEKIAH PRAYED TO JEHOVAH AS THE GOD OF HIS NATION. “O Lord God of Israel.” 1. The nation bore the name of one of its progenitors, who “a...
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 Chronicles 5:26; 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 17:24;...