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James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 37:36

"And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four score and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. And it came to pass that as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:33

Isaiah 37:33. Therefore thus saith the Lord— There is a gradation in these words, as is usual with Isaiah. The first declaration is, that Sennacherib, if he shall attempt to besiege the city, shall never be able to succeed: He shall not come into this city. The second is, that he shall not bring his army so near to the city as to come before it with shields, or raise a bank against it. To come before it with a shield, is, to defend himself with a shield when besieging a city, or making any... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:35

Isaiah 37:35. For my servant David's sake— All the promises made to David were made to him in Christ; he and his kingdom were types of the kingdom of Christ. It is to this, and not to the personal merits of David, that the sacred writer here alludes. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:36

Isaiah 37:36. Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote— Sennacherib, flushed with his victories, and breathing destruction against the kingdom of Judah, which had withdrawn its allegiance from him, in his opprobrious message to Hezekiah and his subjects, not only inveighed against them, but blasphemously reviled even their God, bringing down the great God of Israel to the contemptible level of the gods of the nations; putting him to open defiance, and charging him with impotence to his... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:38

Isaiah 37:38. The house of Nisroch his god— This was probably the tutelary deity of that country, who might originally have been their king or legislator, and might have been deified, as the custom was, to preserve the veneration of his laws, or the memory of his services to the state. The LXX has it u925?ασαραχ τον πατραρχον αυτου . The significations ascribed to the word Nisroch are various. Some imagine that it signifies a ship; and in the Egyptian tropical hieroglyphics we find that a ship... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:33

33. with shields—He did come near it, but was not allowed to conduct a proper siege. bank—a mound to defend the assailants in attacking the walls. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:35

35. I will defend—Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense ( :-), Jehovah was its true defender. mine own sake—since Jehovah's name was blasphemed by Sennacherib ( :-). David's sake—on account of His promise to David (Psalms 132:17; Psalms 132:18), and to Messiah, the heir of David's throne (Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 11:1). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:36

36. Some attribute the destruction to the agency of the plague (see on :-), which may have caused Hezekiah's sickness, narrated immediately after; but Isaiah 33:1; Isaiah 33:4, proves that the Jews spoiled the corpses, which they would not have dared to do, had there been on them infection of a plague. The secondary agency seems, from Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:30, to have been a storm of hail, thunder, and lightning (compare Isaiah 30:30- :). The simoon belongs rather to Africa and Arabia than... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:37

37. dwelt at Nineveh—for about twenty years after his disaster, according to the inscriptions. The word, "dwelt," is consistent with any indefinite length of time. "Nineveh," so called from Ninus, that is, Nimrod, its founder; his name means "exceedingly impious rebel"; he subverted the existing patriarchal order of society, by setting up a system of chieftainship, founded on conquest; the hunting field was his training school for war; he was of the race of Ham, and transgressed the limits... read more

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