Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:8-13
The royal letter 37:8-13 read more
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Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
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
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:9-13
Sennacherib warned Hezekiah, through messengers and a letter (Isaiah 37:14), not to let messages from Yahweh deceive him into thinking that Jerusalem would survive. After all, all the lands that the Assyrian kings had invaded had fallen to them, he claimed. None of the powerful cities of the upper Euphrates received help to overcome Assyria from their gods. Likewise, the cities of Aram had not been able to resist takeover. 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
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:9
(9) Tirhakah.—The third of the twenty-fifth, or Ethiopian dynasty of kings, So, or Sabaco, with whom Hoshea, the last king of Israel, allied himself, being the first (2 Kings 17:4). He is described in Assurbanipal’s inscriptions (Records of the Past, i. 60) as king of Mizr and Cush—i.e., Egypt and Ethiopia. The policy of Hezekiah’s counsellors had led them to court his alliance, as in Isaiah 30:31. Now, however, the Egyptian army was at least mobilised. “Rahab” was no longer “sitting still”... 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
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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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:8-9
The Rabshakeh returned to his master, having learned that Hezekiah would not surrender. He found him five miles closer to Jerusalem than Lachish, at Libnah, where he was fighting the Judahites. The message that Tirhakah, King of Ethiopia, was coming to engage him in battle, caused Sennacherib to decide to terminate further campaigns in Palestine and return to his homeland temporarily. Tirhakah was about 20 years old at this time and did not accede to the throne of Egypt and Ethiopia until 690... read more