Geneva Bible Notes (1560)2 Kings 19

^{2 a} To heare some newe prophecie and to haue comforte of him.

^{3 b} The dangers are so great that we can nether auenge this blasphemie, nor helpe our selues, no more then a woman in her trauel.

^{4 c} Meaning for Jerusalem which onely remained of all the cities of Judah.

^{6 !} God promiseth by Isaiah victorie to Hezekiah.

^{7 d} The Lord can with one blast blowe away all the strength of man and turne it into dust.

^{9 f} For the Kings of Ethiopia & Egypt joyned together against the King of Assyria because of his oppression of other countreys.

^{9 e} That is, Saneherib.

^{9 /} Or, blacke Mores.

^{10 g} The more nere that the wicked are to their destruction, the more they blaspheme.

^{14 h} Before the Arke of the couenant.

^{15 i} He sheweth what is the true refuge & succour in all dangers, to wit, to flee to the Lord by ernest prayer.

^{16 l} By this title he discerneth God from all idoles and false gods.

^{16 k} Shew by effect that thou wilt not suffer thy Name to be Blasphemed.

^{19 m} He sheweth for what end the faithful desire of God to be deliuered: to wit, that he may be glorified by their deliuerance.

^{21 n} Because as yet, Jerusalem had not bene taken by the enemie, therefore he calleth her virgine.

^{22 o} God counteth that iniurie done to him, and wil reuenge it which is done to anie of his Saints.

^{23 p} Meaning Jerusalem, which Isaiah calleth the hight of his borders, to wit, of Judah, {Isa. 37:24}

^{23 /} Or, pleasant countrey.

^{23 /} Or, the waters of cities besieged.

^{25 q} He declareth that for as muche as he is the autor and beginning of his Church, he wil neuer suffer it vtterly to be destroyed, as other cities and kingdomes.

^{26 r} Thus he describeth the wicked, which for a time florish, and afterwarde fade and decay like flowres.

^{28 s} I wil bridel thy rage and turne thee to & fro as pleaseth me.

^{29 t} God did not onely promes him the victorie, but giueth him a signe to confirm his faith.

^{30 u} The Lord wil multiplie in great nomber that small remnant of Judah that is escaped.

^{31 x} The loue, that God beareth toward his Church, shal ouercome the counsels and enterprises of men.

^{35 !} The Angel of the Lord killeth an hundreth and four score and fiue thousand men of the Assyrians.

^{37 !} Sanecherib is killed of his owne sonnes.

^{37 y} This was the juste judgement of God for his blasphemie, that he shulde be slaine before that idole, whome he preferred to the liuing God, & by them by whome he oght by nature to haue bene defended.