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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Isaiah 37

Chapter 37

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

it came

2 Kings 19:1-19

he rent

36:22 2 Kings 22:11 Jeremiah 36:24 Jonah 3:5,6 Matthew 11:21

and went

Ezra 9:5 Job 1:20,21

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

14 36:3 2 Kings 18:18 19:2 22:12-14 2 Chronicles 20:20 Joel 1:13

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

his day

25:8 33:2 2 Kings 19:3 2 Chronicles 15:4 Psalms 50:15 91:15 116:3,4 Jeremiah 30:7 Hosea 5:15 6:1 Revelation 3:19

blasphemy

or, provocation.

Psalms 95:8

for the

26:17,18 66:9 Hosea 13:13

It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

It may

Joshua 14:12 1 Samuel 14:6 2 Samuel 16:12 Amos 5:15

to reproach

23,24 36:20 51:7,8 1 Samuel 17:26,36 2 Kings 19:4,22,23 2 Chronicles 32:15-19

and will

23 Psalms 50:21

lift up

1 Samuel 7:8 12:19,23 2 Chronicles 32:20 Psalms 106:23 Joel 2:17 James 5:16

for the

1:9 8:7,8 10:5,6,22 2 Kings 17:18 18:9-16 2 Chronicles 28:19 Romans 9:27

left

Heb. found.

And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Thus shall

2 Kings 19:5-7 22:15-20

Be not

7:4 10:24,25 35:4 41:10-14 43:1,2 51:12,13 Exodus 14:13 Leviticus 26:8 Joshua 11:6 2 Chronicles 20:15-20 Mark 4:40 5:36

Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

I will

10:16-18,33,34 17:13,14 29:5-8 30:28-33 31:8,9 33:10-12 2 Kings 7:6 Job 4:9 15:21 Psalms 58:9

send a blast upon him

or, put a spirit into him. I will cause.

36-38 2 Chronicles 32:21

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Rabshakeh

2 Kings 19:8,9 Numbers 33:20,21

Libnah

Joshua 10:29,31-34 21:13 2 Kings 8:22 2 Chronicles 21:10

Lachish

Joshua 12:11 15:39

And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

he heard

1 Samuel 23:27,28

Ethiopia

Cush, which is generally rendered Ethiopia, is applied in Scripture to at least three distinct and different countries. 1. The country watered by the Gihon or Araxes, (Ge 2:13,) also called Cuth, 2 Ki 17:30. 2. A country of Arabia PetrÊa, bordering upon Egypt, which extended from the northern extremity of the Red sea along its eastern shore. (Comp. Ex 3:1, with Nu 12:1. Hab 3:7.) 3. Ethiopia Proper, an extensive country of Africa, comprehending Nubia and Abyssinia; being bounded on the north by Egypt, on the east by the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and on the south and west by various nations of Africa, and extending from about 6 degrees to 24 degrees N. lat. and 25 degrees to 45 degrees E. long. It is probable that it was this latter Cush, or Ethiopia, of which Tirhakah was king; he being in league with his kinsman Sevechus, son of So, or Sabacon, king of Egypt, against Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.

Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

Let not

36:4,15,20 2 Kings 18:5 19:10-13 2 Chronicles 32:7,8,15-19 Psalms 22:8 Matthew 27:43

Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?

18,19 10:7-14 14:17 36:18-20 2 Kings 17:4-6 18:33-35

Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

the gods

36:20 46:5-7

Gozan

2 Kings 17:6 18:11 19:12

Haran

Haran, the CarrhÊ of the Greeks and Romans, is situated in the north-west part of Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the river Chebar; about 110 miles west of Nisibis, 90 east of Bir, 100 south of Diarbekir, and 170 north of Palmyra.

Genesis 11:31 12:14 28:10 29:4 Acts 7:2

Eden

It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called M‚don, according to Asseman.

Genesis 2:8 Ezekiel 27:23 28:13 Amos 1:5

Telassar

Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar, Ge 14:1, as the Jerusalem Targum reads; for both of which the Syriac has Dolassar; and perhaps, as Doederlein supposes, the same as Sharra, a city of Mesopotamia, half a mile from the Euphrates.

2 Kings 19:12

Thelasar

Verse 13

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

Hamath

10:9 36:19 Jeremiah 49:23

Hena

Hena is probably the same as Anah, a city of Mesopotamia, situated on an island in the Euphrates.

Ivah

2 Kings 17:24,30,31

Ava, Avites

2 Kings 18:34 19:13

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

received

2 Kings 19:14

and Hezekiah went

1 1 Kings 8:28-30,38 9:3 2 Chronicles 6:20-42 Psalms 27:5 62:1-3 74:10 76:1-3 Psalms 123:1-4 143:6 Joel 2:17-20

And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,

1 Samuel 7:8,9 2 Samuel 7:18-29 2 Kings 19:15-19 2 Chronicles 14:11 20:6-12 Daniel 9:3,4 Philippians 4:6,7 James 5:13

O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

Lord

6:3 8:13 2 Samuel 7:26 Psalms 46:7,11

dwellest

Exodus 25:22 1 Samuel 4:4 Psalms 80:1 99:1 Hebrews 4:16

thou art

20 43:10,11 44:6 45:22 54:5 1 Kings 18:32 2 Kings 5:15 Psalms 86:10 Revelation 11:15-17

thou hast

40:28 44:24 Genesis 1:1 Psalms 146:6 Jeremiah 10:10-12 John 1:3 Colossians 1:16

Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

Incline

2 Chronicles 6:40 Job 36:7 Psalms 17:6 71:2 130:1,2 Daniel 9:17-19 1 Peter 3:12

hear

4 2 Samuel 16:12 Psalms 10:14,15 74:10,22 79:12 89:50,51

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

the kings

2 Kings 15:29 16:9 17:6,24 1 Chronicles 5:26 Nahum 2:11,12

nations

Heb. lands.

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

And have

10:9-11 36:18-20 46:1,2 Exodus 32:20 2 Samuel 5:21

cast

Heb. given. no gods.

40:19-21 41:7 44:9,10,17 Psalms 115:4-8 Jeremiah 10:3-6,11 Hosea 8:6

Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

that all

42:8 Exodus 9:15,16 Joshua 7:8,9 1 Samuel 17:45-47 1 Kings 8:43 18:36,37 Psalms 46:10 59:13 67:1,2 83:17,18 Ezekiel 36:23 Malachi 1:11

even

Verse 21

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

Whereas

38:3-6 58:9 65:24 2 Samuel 15:31 17:23 2 Kings 19:20,21 Job 22:27 Psalms 91:15 Daniel 9:20-23 Acts 4:31

This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

The virgin

23:12 Jeremiah 14:17 Lamentations 1:15 2:13 Amos 5:2

the daughter

1:8 10:32 62:11 Psalms 9:14 Zephaniah 3:14 Zechariah 2:10 9:9 Matthew 21:5

hath despised

8:9,10 1 Samuel 17:36,44-47 Psalms 2:2-4 27:1-3 31:18 46:1-7 Joel 3:9-12

shaken

Job 16:4 Psalms 22:7,8 Matthew 27:39

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

10-13 Exodus 5:2 2 Kings 19:4,22 2 Chronicles 32:17 Psalms 44:16 73:9 74:18,23 Revelation 13:1-6

against whom

10:13-15 14:13,14 Exodus 9:17 Proverbs 30:13 Ezekiel 28:2,9 Daniel 5:20-23 Daniel 7:25 2 Thessalonians 2:4

the Holy One

10:20 12:6 17:7 30:11,12 41:14,16 43:3,14 Exodus 15:11 Ezekiel 39:7 Habakkuk 1:12,13

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

thy servants

Heb. the hand of they servants.

4 36:15-20 2 Kings 19:22,23

By the

10:13,14 36:9 Exodus 15:9 Psalms 20:7 Daniel 4:30

tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof

Heb. tallness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof.

10:18 14:8 Ezekiel 31:3-18 Daniel 4:8-14,20-22 Zechariah 11:1,2

of his Carmel

or, and his fruitful field.

29:17

I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

with the sole

36:12 1 Kings 20:10 2 Kings 19:23,24

besieged

or, fenced and closed.

Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

long ago, etc

or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?.

how I

10:5,6,15 45:7 46:10,11 Genesis 50:20 Psalms 17:13 76:10 Amos 3:6 Acts 2:23 4:27,28 1 Peter 2:8 Jude 1:4

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 before it be grown up.

their inhabitants

19:16 Numbers 14:9 2 Kings 19:26 Psalms 127:1,2 Jeremiah 5:10 37:10

of small power

Heb. short of hand. as the grass of.

40:6-8 Psalms 37:2 90:5,6 92:7 103:15 129:6 James 1:10,11 1 Peter 1:24

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

I know

Psalms 139:2-11 Proverbs 5:21 15:3 Jeremiah 23:23,24 Revelation 2:13

abode

or sitting.

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

rage

10 36:4,10 2 Kings 19:27,28 Job 15:25,26 Psalms 2:1-3 46:6 93:3,4 Nahum 1:9-11 John 15:22,23 Acts 9:4

tumult

Psalms 74:4,23 83:2 Matthew 27:24 Acts 22:22

will I

30:28 Job 41:2 Psalms 32:9 Ezekiel 29:4 38:4 Amos 4:2

And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

this shall

7:14 38:7 Exodus 3:12 1 Kings 13:3-5 2 Kings 19:29 20:9

Ye shall

7:21-25 Leviticus 25:4,5,20-22

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah

Heb. escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth.

1:9 6:13 10:20-22 Jeremiah 44:28

take

27:6 65:9 2 Kings 19:30,31 Psalms 80:9 Jeremiah 30:19 Romans 9:27 11:5 Galatians 3:29

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

they that escape

Heb. the escaping. the zeal.

20 9:7 59:17 2 Kings 19:31 Joel 2:18 Zechariah 1:14

Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

He

8:7-10 10:32-34 17:12,14 33:20 2 Kings 19:32-35

shields

Heb. shield. cast.

Ezekiel 21:22 Luke 19:43,44

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

29 Proverbs 21:30

For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

I will

31:5 38:6 2 Kings 20:6

for mine

43:25 48:9-11 Deuteronomy 32:27 Ezekiel 20:9 36:22 Ephesians 1:6,14

and for

1 Kings 11:12,13,36 15:4 Jeremiah 23:5,6 30:9 33:15,16 Ezekiel 37:24,25

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

the angel

10:12,16-19,33,34 30:30-33 31:8 33:10-12 Exodus 12:23 2 Samuel 24:16 2 Kings 19:35 1 Chronicles 21:12,16 2 Chronicles 32:21,22 Psalms 35:5,6 Acts 12:23

and when

Exodus 12:30 Job 20:5-7 24:24 Psalms 46:6-11 76:5-7 1 Thessalonians 5:2,3

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Sennacherib

7,29 31:9

Nineveh

Genesis 10:11,12 Jonah 1:2 3:3 Nahum 1:1 Matthew 12:41

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

his god

10 14:9,12 36:15,18 2 Kings 19:36,37 2 Chronicles 32:14,19,21

Armenia

Heb. Ararat.

Genesis 8:4 Jeremiah 51:27

Esar-haddon

Esar-haddon, called Asar-addinus in the Canon of Ptolemy, was the third son of Sennacherib; and having reigned twenty-nine years over the Assyrians, he took advantage of the anarchy and confusion which followed the death of Mesessimordacus, and seized upon Babylon; which he added to his former empire, and reigned over both for thirteen years; when he was succeeded by his son Saosduchinus, A.M. 3336, B.C. 668.

Ezra 4:2