Isaiah 37:20 - Exposition

Save us … that all the kingdoms … may know , etc. God's true servants desire deliverance and triumph over enemies, not alone for their own sakes, not even for the sake of the country or people whose fate is bound up with their own, but for the glory of God, that his honour may be vindicated in the sight of the world at large. It is a large part of the satisfaction of Moses at the passage of the Red Sea, that "the peoples would hear … the dukes of Edom be amazed … the mighty men of Moab tremble," etc. ( Exodus 15:14 , Exodus 15:15 ). David would have his foes " consumed " in order that they might know that "God ruled in Jacob, and unto the cads of the earth" ( Psalms 59:13 ), and again, in order "that men may know that thou, whose Name alone is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth" ( Psalms 83:18 ). It has been well said that "the object of all the judgments which the true prophet desires is to bring all nations into subjection to God."