イザヤ書 36:2-22 JCB

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:20

Who are they amongst all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand ?.... Not one of them, it is suggested; wherefore then should it be thought practicable, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand ? thus blasphemously setting the Lord God of Israel upon a level with the fictitious gods of the Gentiles; though these could not, the Lord could, being the Lord God Almighty. If Rabshakeh was an apostate Jew, he must have known better; but the malice... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:21

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word ,.... The three ministers of Hezekiah; not as confounded, and unable to return an answer: they were capable of saying many things in proof that the Lord God was greater than the gods of the nations, and in favour of their king, Hezekiah, whom he had treated in a scurrilous manner; and could have objected to him the king of Assyria's breach of faith and honour, but these things they waved, and said nothing of; no doubt they said something... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:22

Then came Eliakim, that was over the household ,.... The first of the commissioners sent to Rabshakeh: and Shebna the Scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah : by which it seems that he could not be with them on the wall, but was all the while in his own palace, whither they came to him, to report the issue of their conference with Rabshakeh: with their clothes rent ; which was done perhaps not in the presence and within the sight of Rabshakeh, but as they came... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:3

Then came forth unto him - Before these words the other copy, 2 Kings 18:18 , adds, המלך אל ויקראו vaiyikreu el hammelech , "And they demanded audience of the king." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:5

I say "Thou hast said" - Fourteen MSS. (three ancient) of Kennicott's and De Rossi's have it in the second person, אמרת amarta ; and so the other copy, 2 Kings 18:20 . But they are but vain words - שפתים דבר debar sephathayim , a word of the lips. Thou dost talk about counsels, but thou hast none; about strength, but there is none with thee. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:6

The staff of this broken reed - A weakened, faithless ally. On Egypt - The Bodl. MS. adds מלך melech , the king of Egypt; and so perhaps the Chaldee might read. It will go into his hand, and pierce it - Will take subsidy after subsidy, and do nothing for it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:7

But if thou say "But if ye say" - Two ancient MSS. have תאמרו tomeru in the plural number; so likewise the Septuagint, Chaldee, and the other copy, 2 Kings 18:22 . Ye shall worship before this altar "To worship only before this altar" - See 2 Chronicles 32:12 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:10

Am I now come up without the Lord - Probably some apostate Israelitish priest might have encouraged the king of Assyria by telling him that Jehovah had given him a commission against Jerusalem. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:12

That they may eat their own dung "Destined to eat their own dung" - לאכל leechol , that they may eat, as our translation literally renders it. But the Syriac reads מאכל meechol , that they may not eat, perhaps rightly, and afterward ומשתות umishshethoth , or ושתות ushethoth , to the same purpose. Seventeen of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., ten of De Rossi's and two of my own, read מימי meymey , the water; mine have שניהם מימי meymey sheneyhem , and write in the margin רגליהם... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:15

This city shall not be delivered - ולא velo , And this city. Ten of Kennicott's MSS., and nine of De Rossi's, with one (ancient) of my own, add the conjunction. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 36:15

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