Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 37:1-7
The Rabshakeh’s challenge 36:1-37:7This section demonstrates Hezekiah’s commitment to God, but the next one (Isaiah 37:8-35) shows an even stronger commitment by the king to commit his own fate and the fate of his people to God. The present section stresses Assyrian pride and its result: divine judgment (cf. Isaiah 10:15-19). Isaiah did not record Hezekiah’s attempt to buy off Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:13-16), probably because he wanted to focus on the Judean king’s good example of trusting God. read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:7
7. blast—rather, "I will put a spirit (Isaiah 28:6; 1 Kings 22:23) into him," that is, so influence his judgment that when he hears the report (1 Kings 22:23- :, concerning Tirhakah), he shall return [GESENIUS]; the "report" also of the destruction of his army at Jerusalem, reaching Sennacherib, while he was in the southwest of Palestine on the borders of Egypt, led him to retreat. by the sword— (1 Kings 22:23- :). read more