Introduction
Of the several theories respecting this prophecy, the most approvable to sound judgment is that which, in a prophetic way, connects it with the last three verses of the preceding chapter. The prophet herein “announces the overthrow of Sennacherib’s hosts, and desires the ambassadors of Ethiopia now in Jerusalem to take word of it to their own nation, and calls on the world to witness the event.” Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown. Sargon of Assyria had humbled Ethiopia, and Sennacherib was on his way to complete the work of his father when he was met with a providential defeat. One word more in relation to Ethiopia. It is known that Ethiopia, with Egypt, constituted, in the prophet’s time, the great rival empire to Assyria in the northeast. Sabaco, of the 25th, or the Ethiop-Egyptian, dynasty, was the Tirhaka of the Old Testament. His Ethiopic realm extended above Egypt southward; covering, probably, the present Nubia, Sennaar, Kordofa, northern Abyssinia, also Upper and Lower Egypt, as one empire.
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