Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:8-35
King Hezekiah’s challenge 37:8-35This section contains two parts: Sennacherib’s letter to Hezekiah, and Hezekiah’s response to it. read more
以賽亞書 37:20 Cunpts
Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:14-35
The response to the letter 37:14-35 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:16-20
Hezekiah began his prayer-did Isaiah witness it?-by acknowledging Yahweh’s uniqueness. Yahweh was not like the gods of the nations but the only true God, who dwelt among His people, the Creator who rules and determines everything. Theologically this confession climaxes the whole first part of the Book of Isaiah. Hezekiah asked the living God to pay attention to the reproachful blasphemies of the Assyrian king. He acknowledged the Assyrians’ superiority over the nations they had overrun, but he... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:1-38
7. Send.. him] RV ’put a spirit in him.’22. Virgin] the figure as in Isaiah 23:12.24. Sides] RV ’innermost parts.’ The height.. Carmel] RV ’his farthest height, the forest of his fruitful field.’25. Digged] Deserts cannot impede his march, for he digs wells there. Have I dried, etc.] RV ’will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt’: the Assyrian boasts that he will pass on to conquer Egypt. 26. Jehovah is here the speaker. Done.. formed it] Referring to the ordering of events in the divine... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-38
CHAPTER XXVIHAD ISAIAH A GOSPEL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL?THE two narratives, in which Isaiah’s career culminates-that of the Deliverance of Jerusalem {Isaiah 36:1-22; Isaiah 37:1-38} and that of the Recovery of Hezekiah {Isaiah 38:1-22; Isaiah 39:1-8}-cannot fail, coming together as they do, to suggest to thoughtful readers a striking contrast between Isaiah’s treatment of the community and his treatment of the individual, between his treatment of the Church and his treatment of single members. For... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 37:1-38
CHAPTER 37 Hezekiah in the House of the Lord and Sennacherib’s Second Attempt 1. Hezekiah’s humiliation and Isaiah sent for (Isaiah 37:1-5 ) 2. The message from the prophet (Isaiah 37:6-7 ) 3. Rabshakeh’s letter (Isaiah 37:8-13 ) 4. Hezekiah’s prayer (Isaiah 37:14-20 ) 5. The prayer answered (Isaiah 37:21-35 ) 6. The army of Sennacherib judged (Isaiah 37:36 ) 7. The judgment upon Sennacherib (Isaiah 37:38 ) read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 37:20
37:20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that {n} all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou [art] the LORD, [even] thou only.(n) He declares for what cause he prayed, that they might be glorified by it through all the world. read more
James Gray
James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-38
HISTORICAL PARENTHESIS These chapters are a dividing line between what may be called Parts 1 and 2 of this book. They deal with Hezekiah’s reign whose history has been considered in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. The chapters are not arranged chronologically, as the event of chapter 38, Hezekiah’s sickness and recovery, occurred prior to the siege of Sennacherib (chaps. 36-37). The prophecies preceding these chapters predict the rise of the Assyrian power as the enemy of Judah and God’s rod of... read more
Joseph Parker
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 37:1-38
The Distress of Hezekiah Isaiah 37:0 The first picture that strikes us in this chapter is that of a panic-stricken king. When Hezekiah heard the messages from Assyria he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. The king and his ministers all clothed themselves in the penitential sackcloth of mourners. Hezekiah was probably weak in body, and therefore had lost true courage of soul. None knew better than he the overwhelming resources of Assyria,... read more
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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:20
20. The strongest argument to plead before God in prayer, the honor of God (Exodus 32:12-14; Psalms 83:18; Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:19). read more