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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 36:1-10

We shall here only observe some practical lessons. 1. A people may be in the way of their duty and yet meet with trouble and distress. Hezekiah was reforming, and his people were in some measure reformed; and yet their country is at that time invaded and a great part of it laid waste. Perhaps they began to grow remiss and cool in the work of reformation, were doing it by halves, and ready to sit down short of a thorough reformation; and then God visited them with this judgment, to put life... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 36:11-22

We may hence learn these lessons:?1. That, while princes and counsellors have public matters under debate, it is not fair to appeal to the people. It was a reasonable motion which Hezekiah's plenipotentiaries made, that this parley should be held in a language which the people did not understand (Isa. 36:11), because reasons of state are secret things and ought to be kept secret, the vulgar being incompetent judges of them. It is therefore an unfair practice, and not doing as men would be done... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:4

And Rabshakeh said unto them ,.... The three ministers above mentioned: say ye now to Hezekiah ; tell him what follows; he does not call him king, as he does his own master: thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria ; this he said boastingly of his master, and in order to terrify Hezekiah and his subjects; whom he would represent as little in comparison of him, who had subdued many kingdoms, and aimed at universal monarchy; so the eastern kings used to be called, as now the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:5

I say, (sayest thou,) but they are but vain words ,.... Or, "word of lips" F6 דבר שפתים "verbum labiorum", Montanus; "vel, sermo labiorum", Vatablus. ; meaning the following, which he suggests were only the fruit of his lips, not of his heart; or were vain and foolish, and without effect, and stood for nothing; so the first part of the words are Hezekiah's, "I say (sayest thou)"; and the latter, Rabshakeh's note upon them; though they may be understood as Hezekiah's, or what he is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:6

Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt ,.... His ally and auxiliary; and which is rightly called "the staff of a broken reed", if trusted to, and leaned upon, being weak and frail, and an insufficient ground of confidence to depend upon; the allusion seems to be to the cane or reed which grew upon the banks of the river Nile, in Egypt: whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it ; the splinters of the broken reed being leaned on, will enter into a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:7

But if thou say to me, we trust in the Lord our God ,.... In his promises, providence, power, and protection, and not in human counsels and strength; not in allies and auxiliaries, as Pharaoh king of Egypt; should this be replied, Rabshakeh has something to say to that; having shown the vanity of trusting in the above things, he now proceeds to beat them off of all trust in the Lord their God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away ; the question might... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:8

Now therefore give pledges to my master the king of Assyria ,.... Or; "hostages" F8 התערב "da obsides", Vatablus; "paciscere cum domino meo, Gataker; "misceto, quaeso, bellum cum domino meo", Junius & Tremellius. ; that thou wilt not rebel against him, but be faithful to him, and he will withdraw his army; or give security for the horses after promised: "or mingle thyself with him"; agree the matter with him, give pledges for future fidelity; or join in battle with him, come... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:9

How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants ,.... Be able to resist him; or be a match for him; or cause him to flee; the least captain or general in the army having, as Kimchi says, two thousand men under him; and therefore, if Hezekiah could not produce two thousand men, to sit upon so many horses offered, he could not be a match for, or hope to conquer, or cause to flee, the least officer in the army, who had the fewest men under him, and much... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:10

And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it ?.... He would insinuate that he had a commission from the Lord God, and that it was by his will and order that he came up to destroy the land; which he said to intimidate Hezekiah and his subjects, as knowing that nothing was more likely to do it than that so far it was true, that he did not come up without the knowledge of the Lord, nor without his will to chastise, but not to destroy, as the event showed: the Lord... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:11

Then said Eliakim and Shebah and Joah unto Rabshakeh ,.... That is, one of them addressed him in the name of the rest; for the verb is singular; and what follows confirms it; perhaps Eliakim was the speaker: speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syriac language ; which was somewhat different from the Hebrew, in which he spoke, and which was not understood by the common people, and for that reason desired: for we understand it ; or hear it; could hear it, so as to understand... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 36:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 36:11-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 36:11

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