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The weakness of the nations exposed to the Assyrian attacks was as
much owing to the divine decrees as was the strength of the Assyrians
themselves.
THE GRASS ON THE HOUSE TOPS - Compare the marginal...
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2. HEZEKIAH AND ISAIAH AND THE DELIVERANCE
CHAPTER 19
_ 1. Hezekiah's message to Isaiah (2 Kings 19:1)_
2. Isaiah's answer. (2 Kings 19:6)
3. Sennacherib's message to Hezekiah (2 Kings 19:8; 2 Chr...
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2 KINGS 19:2. UNTO ISAIAH: from the Book of Isaiah we learn that the
prophet had steadily opposed Hezekiah's intrigues against Assyria.
SHELNA: Isaiah 22:15 *.
2 Kings 19:9. Ethiopia was the country...
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AS THE GRASS, &C. Note Hezekiah's reference to this in his "Song of
the degrees" (Psalms 129:5). See App-67.
BLASTED. blighted....
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_Therefore_ i.e. Not, as thou thinkest, because of thy might, but
because I sent thee; for this reason it is that the people against
whom thou camest were dismayed.
_of small power_ Literally, as in...
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_HEZEKIAH, MOURNING, SENDETH TO ISAIAH TO PRAY FOR HIM; HE COMFORTETH
HIM: SENNACHERIB SENDETH A BLASPHEMOUS LETTER TO HEZEKIAH; HEZEKIAH'S
PRAYER. AN ANGEL SLAYETH THE ASSYRIANS: SENNACHERIB IS SLAIN...
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C. SENNACHERIB'S SECOND SURRENDER DEMAND 19:8-34
By means of a personal letter to Hezekiah King Sennacherib intensified
the pressure to secure the surrender of Jerusalem (2 Kings 19:8-13).
This new d...
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_THEREFORE THEIR INHABITANTS WERE OF SMALL POWER, THEY WERE DISMAYED
AND CONFOUNDED; THEY WERE AS THE GRASS OF THE FIELD, AND AS THE GREEN
HERB, AS THE GRASS ON THE HOUSETOPS, AND AS CORN BLASTED BEFO...
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19:26 powerless, (f-5) Lit. 'short of hand.'...
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THE DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM
2. Isaiah the prophet] This is the first mention of Isaiah in this
book, but his own writings show that he had been an active teacher and
statesman not only during the ear...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 19
ISAIAH THE *PROPHET
V1 When King Hezekiah heard that, he tore his clothes. He dressed
himself in rough cloth and h...
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OF SMALL POWER. — Literally, _short-handed._ (Comp. Isaiah 1:2;
Isaiah 59:1.) Keil compares the well-known title of Artaxerxes I.,
_Longimanus,_ the “long-handed,” as if that epithet meant
far-reachin...
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וְ יֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ קִצְרֵי ־יָ֔ד
חַ֖תּוּ וַ יֵּבֹ֑שׁוּ הָי֞וּ עֵ֤שֶׂב
שָׂדֶה֙ וִ֣ ירַק דֶּ֔שֶׁא חֲצִ֣יר...
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THE GREAT DELIVERANCE
B.C. 701
2 Kings 19:1
"There brake He the arrows of the bow, the shield, the sword, and the
battle."
- Psalms 76:3.
"And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword Hath...
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THE ANSWER OF THE KING OF KINGS
2 Kings 19:25
These verses, taken with Isaiah 10:5, form a most suggestive and
sublime comment on the words, “the Lord reigneth.” They show us
God using the Assyrian...
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In the presence of the undoubted peril, Hezekiah in penitence turned
to his old and trusted friend, the prophet Isaiah, and charged him to
pray for that remnant of God's people which still remained. H...
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Therefore their (r) inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and
[as] the green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn]
b...
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_Of hand. Hebrew, "short, (Calmet) or contracted in hand," or power.
This does not add to the glory of Sennacherib; and if the enemy had
been less valiant, the victory was still to be attributed to Go...
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What a multitude of most rich and precious things appear in these
verses. Observe, Reader! how long an answer the Lord returns to a
short prayer. God is not only more ready to hear than we to pray; bu...
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"And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the
scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz" (2 Kings 19:1-37). He goes to Je...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19.
Chapter 18 brings us to a rather different subject, namely, the
relations of Judah with the Assyrian, who had become their oppressor
through their...
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2 Kings 19:1...
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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
and confounded; they were [as] the grass of the field, and [as] the
green herb, [as] the grass on the housetops, and [as corn] blast...
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_Therefore their inhabitants were of small power_ The people of Israel
and Judah, and of other countries which thou hast conquered, because I
had armed thee with my commission and strength, and had ta...
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1 Hezekiah mourning, sendeth to Esay to pray for them.
6 Esay comforteth them.
8 Sennacherib going to encounter Tirhakah, sendeth a blasphemous
letter to Hezekiah.
14 Hezekiah his prayer.
20 Esay...
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Hezekiah's Prayer and the Deliverance of Jerusalem...
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GOD'S ANSWER THROUGH ISAIAH
(vv.1-7)
Hezekiah, when he heard the report, showed the same humble attitude as
his three servants had. He tore his cloches and put on sackcloth, the
symbol of repentanc...
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OF SMALL POWER:
_ Heb._ short of hand...
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20-34 All Sennacherib's motions were under the Divine cognizance. God
himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place,
cannot but be safe, which he undertakes to protect. The invasi...
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THEREFORE; because I had armed thee with my commission and strength,
and taken away their spirit and courage, and withdrew my help from
them to give it to thee. THEIR INHABITANTS; the people of Israel...
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2 Kings 19:26 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) little H7116 power H3027
dismayed H2865 (H8804) confounded H954 (H8799) grass H6212 field H7704
green H3419 herb H1877 grass H2682 housetops H1406 blighted H771...
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ISAIAH COMMUNICATES TO KING HEZEKIAH ‘THE WORD OF YHWH' NOW ACTIVE
AGAINST THE KING OF ASSYRIA (2 KINGS 19:20).
As a result of King Hezekiah's prayer Isaiah was given a prophetic
message, an ‘oracle'...
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CONTENTS: Hezekiah's message to Isaiah and the answer. Sennacherib
defies God. Hezekiah's prayer and the answer through Isaiah.
CHARACTERS: God, angel (Jesus), Hezekiah, Isaiah, Sennacherib,
Eliakim,...
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2 Kings 19:7. _I will send a blast,_ not the simoon or hot wind, very
sulphurous and destructive, as in Berosus, but the immediate
visitation of an angel, as when the firstborn of the Egyptians were
a...
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_And it came to pass when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his
clothes._
A NATION’S CALAMITIES, COUNSELLOR, AND GOD
I. The exposure of a nation to an overwhelming calamity.
1. The nature of the thre...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 19:20 A second prophecy from ISAIAH 1:1
(compare vv. 2 Kings 19:6), in three parts, brings God’s response to
Hezekiah’s prayer. This king has been wrong to think that his
milit...
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JERUSALEM SUPERNATURALLY DELIVERED
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 19:2. SENT TO THE PROPHET ISAIAH—The prophet, in that Jewish
age, was regarded as the messenger and representative of Jeho...
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EXPOSITION
2 KINGS 19:1
SECOND EXPEDITION OF SENNACHERIB AGAINST HEZEKIAH (_continued_)._ _The
chapter falls into four portions:
(1) The sequel to the embassy of Rabshakeh (2 Kings 19:1);
(2) the...
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So it came to pass, when Hezekiah heard the words and the threats and
the blasphemy, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with
sackcloth, and went to the house of the LORD. And Eliakim, which was...
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1 Peter 1:24; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11; Jeremiah 37:10;
Jeremiah 50:36; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30; Jeremiah 51:32; N
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Therefore — Because I had armed thee with my commission and
strength, and taken away their spirit and courage....