이사야 37:22-32 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 37:21-38

We may here observe, 1. That those who receive messages of terror from men with patience, and send messages of faith to God by prayer, may expect messages of grace and peace from God for their comfort, even when they are most cast down. Isaiah sent a long answer to Hezekiah's prayer in God's name, sent it in writing (for it was too long to be sent by word of mouth), and sent it by way of return to his prayer, relation being thereunto had: ?Whereas thou hast prayed to me, know, for thy comfort,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:22

This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him ,.... The sentence he has pronounced upon him, the punishment he has determined to inflict on him, in answer to Hezekiah's prayer against him: the virgin, the daughter of Zion; hath despised thee; and laughed thee to scorn ; that, is the inhabitants of Zion, particularly of the fort of Zion, called a "virgin", because it had never been forced, or taken and to show that it was a vain thing in Sennacherib to attempt it, as well as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:23

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ?.... A creature like thyself? no, but a God, and not one like the gods of the nations, the idols of wood and stone, but the living God: and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice ? alluding to Rabshakeh's crying with a loud voice, Isaiah 36:13 , and lifted up thine eyes on high ? as proud and haughty persons do, disdaining to look upon those they treat with contempt: even against the Holy One of Israel ; that is, Israel's God, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:24

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord ,.... Particularly by Rabshakeh, and the other two that were with him, who, no doubt, assented to what he said; not content to reproach him himself, he set his servants to do it likewise; he made use of them as instruments, and even set them, as well as himself, above the Lord: and hast said, by the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains ; not only with his foot soldiers, but with his chariots, and a great number... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:25

I have digged, and drunk water ,.... In places where he came, and found no water for his army, he set his soldiers to work, to dig cisterns, as the Targum, or wells, so that they had water sufficient to drink; in 2 Kings 19:24 , it is "strange waters", which were never known before: and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places ; or, as the Targum, "with the soles of the feet of the people that are with me;' the Syriac version, "with the hoofs... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:26

Hast thou not heard long ago ?.... By report, by reading the history of ancient times, or by means of the prophets; these are the words of the Lord to Sennacherib. The Targum adds, "what I did to Pharaoh king of Egypt;' it follows: how I have done it; and of ancient times that I have formed it ? meaning either the decree in his own breast from all eternity, and which he had published by his prophets, of raising up him, this wicked prince, to be the scourge of nations; or by the "it"... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power ,.... Or, "short of hand" F21 קצרי יד breviati, "vel breves manu", Forerius; "abbreviati manu", Vatablus, Montanus. ; it was not in the power of their hands to help themselves, because the Lord took away their strength, having determined that they should be destroyed for their sins; otherwise it would not have been in the power of Sennacherib to have subdued them; this takes off greatly from the king of Assyria's triumph, that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:28

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in ,.... Where he dwelt, what he did at home, his secret councils, cabals, contrivances, schemes and plans for the compassing of his ends, the subduing of kingdoms, and setting up an universal monarchy; and his going out of Babylon, his marches, and counter marches, and his entrance into the land of Judea; there was not a motion made, or a step taken in the cabinet or camp, but what were known to the Lord; so the Targum, "thy sitting... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:29

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult is come up into mine ears ,..... The rage which Sennacherib expressed both by Rabshakeh, and in his letter against Hezekiah and his people, is taken by the Lord as against himself; so great was his care of them, and concern for them; and indeed there was a great deal of blasphemy belched out against himself; and so the Syriac version renders the next word, translated "tumult", "thy blasphemy"; though that may rather intend the blustering noise that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:30

And this shall be a sign unto thee ,.... Not to Sennacherib, but to Hezekiah; for here the Lord turns himself from the former, and directs his speech to the latter, in order to comfort him under the dreadful apprehensions he had of the Assyrian monarch, and his army; assuring him of deliverance; giving him a sign or token of it, and which was a wonder, as the word sometimes signifies, and was no less marvellous than the deliverance itself: ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself:... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 37:21-38

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:30

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