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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 19:9-14

News of The Approach Of A Large Egyptian Army Under Tirhakah, King Of Cush (the Sudan), Causes A Change Of Attitude And A Further Attempt To Obtain King Hezekiah’s Submission (2 Kings 19:9-14 ). The news that a large Egyptian army was approaching led by the son of the Egyptian Pharaoh, who bore the title ‘king of Cush’, caused a hurried change of mind in the Assyrian camp. Now it was more urgent than ever to obtain the surrender and submission of King Hezekiah. So messengers were sent with a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 19:1-37

2 Kings 19:2 . unto Isaiah: from the Book of Isaiah we learn that the prophet had steadily opposed Hezekiah’ s intrigues against Assyria.— Shelna: Isaiah 22:15-Lamentations : *. 2 Kings 19:9 . Ethiopia was the country S. of Egypt. At a time later than this (681 B.C. ?), Tirhakah seems to have established his government in Egypt. There is, therefore, a chronological difficulty in the mention of him here (p. 72). He is, however, not called “ king of Egypt,” and he may have been acting as an... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 19:12

Several places about or beyond Euphrates. See Genesis 11:31; Ezekiel 27:23. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 2 Kings 19:1-37

JERUSALEM SUPERNATURALLY DELIVEREDCRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—2 Kings 19:2. Sent to the prophet Isaiah—The prophet, in that Jewish age, was regarded as the messenger and representative of Jehovah. While the king was entrusted to witness of the Royalty and Majesty of God, the prophet was recognized as the oracle of Divine Wisdom and Truth. Here was a crisis of eminent peril to the nation, in which the people and the Name of Jehovah were alike contemptuously menaced. It was a moment for the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 19:1-37

Chapter 19So it came to pass, when Hezekiah heard the words and the threats and the blasphemy, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to the house of the LORD. And Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, they covered themselves with sackcloth, and they came to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This is a day of trouble, of rebuke, of blasphemy: for the children are come... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 19:1-37

2 Kings 19:7 . I will send a blast, not the simoon or hot wind, very sulphurous and destructive, as in Berosus, but the immediate visitation of an angel, as when the firstborn of the Egyptians were all slain, and the Israelites spared. Scoffing at religion is often among the last revolts allowed to the wicked. 2 Chronicles 32:0. read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 2 Kings 19:1-37

2 Kings 19:1-37And it came to pass when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes.A nation’s calamities, counsellor, and GodI. The exposure of a nation to an overwhelming calamity.1. The nature of the threatened calamity. It was the invasion of the king of Assyria. This was announced in startling terms and in a haughty and ruthless spirit by Rab-shakeh.2. The influence of the threatened calamity.(1) It struck the kingdom with a crushing terror.(2) It struck the kingdom with a helpless... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 2 Kings 19:12

2Ki 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar? Ver. 12. Have the gods of the nations, &c. ] See on 2 Kings 19:10 . Which my fathers have destroyed. ] God was not in all this man’s thoughts. Hic Deus nihil fecit; but he should have known that he and his fathers or predecessors, those scourges of mankind, were but as rods in God’s hand, which, when worn to the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 2 Kings 19:12

Have the gods: 2 Kings 18:33, 2 Kings 18:34 Gozan: 2 Kings 17:6, 1 Chronicles 5:26 Haran: Genesis 11:31, Genesis 29:4, Acts 7:4, Charran Rezeph: Rezeph was probably either Rezapha, which Ptolemy places in the Palmyrene, west of the Euphrates; or rather, Rezipha, in Mesopotamia, east of the Euphrates. Eden: Genesis 2:8, Isaiah 37:12, Telassar, Ezekiel 27:23 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:23 - Their gods 2 Chronicles 32:17 - As the gods Psalms 46:10 - know Isaiah 10:10 - the kingdoms Isaiah 16:12 -... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 19:12

12. Gozan The district on the upper Habor. See note on 2 Kings 17:6. Haran Also in Mesopotamia, but lying some distance northwest of Gozan. Here Abraham abode for a time after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, (Genesis 11:31,) and here a Roman army under Crassus was defeated by the Parthians. It is called Carrae, by the classical writers, and Charran in Acts 7:4. It is doubtless identical with the modern Haran, which is situated on the river Belik, one of the branches of the upper... read more

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