열왕기하 18:22-32 KRV

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:29

Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you. Rabshakeh and his master, no doubt, both of them thought Hezekiah's grounds of confidence would prove fallacious, and that all who should trust in them would find themselves "deceived." There were but two grounds that Hezekiah could possibly put forward: read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:30

Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord. Rabshakeh seems to be aware that this is the argument which Hezekiah is, in point of fact, mainly urging. If at one time he had trusted in Egypt, that trust was now quite or well-nigh gone. The tone of his exhortations was that recorded in Chronicles ( 2 Chronicles 32:6-8 ), "He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying, Be strong and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:31

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the King of Assyria. Rabshakeh, before concluding, tries the effect of blandishments. The King of Assyria is no harsh lord, as he has been represented to them. He will be a kinder master than Hezekiah. Hezekiah condemns them to all the hardships of a siege; and then, if they survive it, to a wasted land, ruined homes, broken cisterns. Sennacherib, if they will but yield to him, promises them peace and prosperity, a time of quiet enjoyment in their own... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:32

Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land. Rabshakeh did not dissemble the fact that they must look for a transplantation. Probably he felt that, if he did, he would not be believed. The transplantations had been too numerous and too recent, the examples of Samaria, Damascus, Hamath, Ashdod, etc; were too notorious, for it to be worth his while to pretend that Judaea would have any other fate. He therefore set himself the task of persuading the Jews that transplantation had... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:22

The destruction of numerous shrines and altars where Yahweh had been worshipped 2 Kings 18:4 seemed to the Rab-shakeh conduct calculated not to secure the favor, but to call forth the anger, of the god. At any rate, it was conduct which he knew had been distasteful to many of Hezekiah’s subjects. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:23

The phrase translated “give pledges,” or “hostages” (margin) may perhaps be best understood as meaning “make an agreement.” If you will “bind yourself to find the riders” (i. e., trained horsemen), we will “bind ourselves to furnish the horses.” The suggestion implied that in all Judaea there were not 2000 men accustomed to serve as cavalry. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:25

The Rab-shakeh probably tries the effect of a bold assertion, which had no basis of fact to rest upon. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:26

The Syrian language - i. e., Aramaic; probably the dialect of Damascus, a Semitic language nearly akin to their own, but suffciently different to be unintelligible to ordinary JewsThe people that are on the wall - The conference must have been held immediately outside the wall for the words of the speakers to have been audible. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:27

That they may eat ... - “My master hath sent me,” the Rab-shakeh seems to say, “to these men, whom I see stationed on the wall to defend the place and bear the last extremities of a prolonged siege - these men on whom its worst evils will fall, and who have therefore the greatest interest in avoiding it by a timely surrender.” He expresses the evils by a strong coarse phrase, suited to the rude soldiery, and well calculated to rouse their feelings. The author of Chronicles has softened down the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:29-30

There were two grounds, and two only, on which Hezekiah could rest his refusal to surrender,(1) ability to resist by his own natural military strength and that of his allies; and(2) expectation based upon the language of Isaiah Isaiah 30:31; Isaiah 31:4-9, of supernatural assistance from Yahweh.The Rab-shakeh argues that both grounds of confidence are equally fallacious. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:29

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:30

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:31

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Kings 18:32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 18:29-30

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