Isaiah 37:36-38 NIV

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 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went forth ,.... From heaven, at the command of the Lord, being one of his ministering spirits, sent forth by him, as for the protection of his people, so for the destruction of their enemies; this was the same night, either in which the Assyrian army sat down before Jerusalem, as say the Jews F24 T. Bab. Sanhedrin: fol. 95. 1. ; or, however the same night in which the message was sent to Hezekiah; see 2 Kings 19:35 , and smote in the camp of the... read more

John Gill

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

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned ,.... Being informed of the destruction of his army in this miraculous manner, he departed from the place where he was in all haste, fearing lest he himself should be destroyed in like manner; and having no forces to pursue his designs, or wherewith to make an attempt elsewhere, he made the best of his way at once into his own country, whither he returned with great shame and confusion: and dwelt at Nineveh ; the metropolis... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:38

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god ,.... Josephus says F26 Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 10. c. 1. sect. 5.) , in his temple, called Arasce; but Nisroch was the name of his deity he worshipped; though who he was is not certain. Jarchi says, in one of their expositions it is said to be נסר , "neser", a plank of the ark of Noah; in Tobit 1:24 F1 I could not verify this reference. Editor. it is called his idol Dagon; according to Hillerus, the word... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel - Before "the angel, "the other copy, 2 Kings 19:35 , adds "it came to pass the same night, that " - The Prophet Hosea, Hosea 1:7 , has given a plain prediction of the miraculous deliverance of the kingdom of Judah: - "And to the house of Judah I will be tenderly merciful: And I will save them by Jehovah their God. And I will not save them by the bow; Nor by sword, nor by battle; By horses, nor by horsemen." - L. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:38

His sons smote him - What an awful punishment of his blasphemy! Who can harden his neck against God, and be successful? God does not lightly pass by blasphemy against himself, his government, his word, his Son, or his people. Let the profligate take care! read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-38

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the Lord went forth . The parallel passage of Kings ( 2 Kings 19:35 ) has, "It came to pass that night , that the angel of the Lord went out." The word of Isaiah had its accomplishment within a few hours. On the camp of the Assyrians, wherever it was, whether at Libnah, or at Pelusium (Herod; 2:141), or between the two, in the dead of night, the destroying angel swooped down, and silently, without disturbance, took the lives of a hundred and eighty-five thousand'... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:36

Humiliating judgments. After such boastings and threatenings as the Rabshakeh had uttered, it was utterly humiliating to lose his army without fighting a battle, to be compelled to take a miserable remnant home, as a circumvented, disgraced general. It was all the more humiliating if Sennacherib himself headed the army at the later stage. "The greatest men cannot stand before God. The great King of Assyria looks very little when he is forced to return, not only with shame, because he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib … departed ; rather, broke up his camp. The word used for all the removals of the children of Israel in the wilderness ( Numbers 33:3-48 ). The loss of even an entire corps d ' armeee would not have caused an Assyrian king, at the head of an intact main army, to break up his camp and abandon his enterprise. And dwelt at Nineveh . Sennacherib lived some eighteen or twenty years from the probable date of his discomfiture, dying in b.c. 681. His ordinary residence was... read more

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:36

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:38

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:36

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:38

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-38

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:36

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:36

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 37:37

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