_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN KING HEZEKIAH HEARD IT, THAT HE RENT HIS CLOTHES, AND COVERED HIMSELF WITH SACKCLOTH, AND WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD._ Hesekiah ... rent his clothes ... The rending of his clothes was a mode of expressing horror at the daring blasphemy-the assumption of sackcloth, a... [ Continue Reading ]
_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._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH HEZEKIAH, THIS DAY IS A DAY OF TROUBLE, AND OF REBUKE, AND BLASPHEMY: FOR THE CHILDREN ARE COME TO THE BIRTH, AND THERE IS NOT STRENGTH TO BRING FORTH._ The children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. The image is that of a parturien... [ Continue Reading ]
_IT MAY BE THE LORD THY GOD WILL HEAR ALL THE WORDS OF RABSHAKEH, WHOM THE KING OF ASSYRIA HIS MASTER HATH SENT TO REPROACH THE LIVING GOD; AND WILL REPROVE THE WORDS WHICH THE LORD THY GOD HATH HEARD: WHEREFORE LIFT UP THY PRAYER FOR THE REMNANT THAT ARE LEFT._ The living God - is a most significa... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE SERVANTS OF KING HEZEKIAH CAME TO ISAIAH._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISAIAH SAID UNTO THEM, THUS SHALL YE SAY TO YOUR MASTER, THUS SAITH THE LORD, BE NOT AFRAID OF THE WORDS WHICH THOU HAST HEARD, WITH WHICH THE SERVANTS OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA HAVE BLASPHEMED ME._ Isaiah said ... Be not afraid. The prophet's answer was most cheering, since it held out the prosp... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, I WILL SEND A BLAST UPON HIM, AND HE SHALL HEAR A RUMOUR, AND SHALL RETURN TO HIS OWN LAND; AND I WILL CAUSE HIM TO FALL BY THE SWORD IN HIS OWN LAND._ Behold, I will send a blast upon him. The usual way of interpreting this clause is by considering it the first announcement in the series... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO RABSHAKEH RETURNED, AND FOUND THE KING OF ASSYRIA WARRING AGAINST LIBNAH: FOR HE HAD HEARD THAT HE WAS DEPARTED FROM LACHISH._ Rab-shakeh ... found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah. Whether Lachish had fallen or not, is not said. But Sennacherib had transferred his battering-rams agai... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HE HEARD SAY OF TIRHAKAH KING OF ETHIOPIA, BEHOLD, HE IS COME OUT TO FIGHT AGAINST THEE: HE SENT MESSENGERS AGAIN UNTO HEZEKIAH, SAYING,_ When he heard say of Tirkakah ... This was the "rumour" to which Isaiah referred. Tirhakah reigned in Upper Egypt, while So, or Sabaco, ruled in Lower... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS SHALL YE SPEAK TO HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, SAYING, LET NOT THY GOD IN WHOM THOU TRUSTEST DECEIVE THEE, SAYING, JERUSALEM SHALL NOT BE DELIVERED INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF ASSYRIA._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HEZEKIAH RECEIVED THE LETTER OF THE HAND OF THE MESSENGERS, AND READ IT: AND HEZEKIAH WENT UP INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND SPREAD IT BEFORE THE LORD._ Hezekiah received the letter ... and ... went up into the house of the Lord. Hezekiah, after reading it, hastened into the temple, spread it... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HEZEKIAH PRAYED BEFORE THE LORD, AND SAID, O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH DWELLEST BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS, THOU ART THE GOD, EVEN THOU ALONE, OF ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH; THOU HAST MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ SENT TO HEZEKIAH, SAYING, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THAT WHICH THOU HAST PRAYED TO ME AGAINST SENNACHERIB KING OF ASSYRIA I HAVE HEARD._ Then Isaiah ... sent. A revelation having been made to Isaiah, the prophet announced to the king that his prayer was heard.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIS IS THE WORD THAT THE LORD HATH SPOKEN CONCERNING HIM; THE VIRGIN THE DAUGHTER OF ZION HATH DESPISED THEE, AND LAUGHED THEE TO SCORN; THE DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM HATH SHAKEN HER HEAD AT THEE._ The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee - the inhabitants in the upper part of the city, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHOM HAST THOU REPROACHED AND BLASPHEMED? AND AGAINST WHOM HAST THOU EXALTED THY VOICE, AND LIFTED UP THINE EYES ON HIGH? EVEN AGAINST THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL._ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? ... even against the Holy One of Israel. In the Jewish law he was guilty of blasphemy who applie... [ Continue Reading ]
_BY THY MESSENGERS THOU HAST REPROACHED THE LORD, AND HAST SAID, WITH THE MULTITUDE OF MY CHARIOTS I AM COME UP TO THE HEIGHT OF THE MOUNTAINS, TO THE SIDES OF LEBANON, AND WILL CUT DOWN THE TALL CEDAR TREES THEREOF, AND THE CHOICE FIR TREES THEREOF: AND I WILL ENTER INTO THE LODGINGS OF HIS BORDERS... [ Continue Reading ]
_I HAVE DIGGED AND DRUNK STRANGE WATERS, AND WITH THE SOLE OF MY FEET HAVE I DRIED UP ALL THE RIVERS OF BESIEGED PLACES._ I have digged and drunk strange waters. Here is another instance of boasting that he had overcome the greatest difficulties and disadvantages of nature. Though passing through f... [ Continue Reading ]
_HAST THOU NOT HEARD LONG AGO HOW I HAVE DONE IT, AND OF ANCIENT TIMES THAT I HAVE FORMED IT? NOW HAVE I BROUGHT IT TO PASS, THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE TO LAY WASTE FENCED CITIES INTO RUINOUS HEAPS._ Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it. Here comes the prophet's response to the Assyrian's bo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 BEFORE IT BE GROWN UP._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT I KNOW THY ABODE, AND THY GOING OUT, AND THY COMING IN, AND THY RAGE AGAINST ME._ I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in. All the movements of Sennacherib were well known to Yahweh. His residence in Assyria, his expedition against Judah and Egypt, his return home for a time, hi... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE THY RAGE AGAINST ME AND THY TUMULT IS COME UP INTO MINE EARS, THEREFORE I WILL PUT MY HOOK IN THY NOSE, AND MY BRIDLE IN THY LIPS, AND I WILL TURN THEE BACK BY THE WAY BY WHICH THOU CAMEST._ I will put my hook in thy nose - or I have put, etc. People in the East lead their large and turbul... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO THEE, YE SHALL EAT THIS YEAR SUCH THINGS AS GROW OF THEMSELVES, AND IN THE SECOND YEAR THAT WHICH SPRINGETH OF THE SAME; AND IN THE THIRD YEAR SOW YE, AND REAP, AND PLANT VINEYARDS, AND EAT THE FRUITS THEREOF._ This shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year su... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE REMNANT THAT IS ESCAPED OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH SHALL YET AGAIN TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD, AND BEAR FRUIT UPWARD._ The remnant ... shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward, х_ PªRIY_ (H6529), fruit of the womb; need sometimes of beasts, but here of persons (cf. Jeremiah 12:2; Hosea... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR OUT OF JERUSALEM SHALL GO FORTH A REMNANT, AND THEY THAT ESCAPE OUT OF MOUNT ZION: THE ZEAL OF THE LORD OF HOSTS SHALL DO THIS._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BY THE WAY THAT HE CAME, BY THE SAME SHALL HE RETURN, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO THIS CITY, SAITH THE LORD._ Shall not come into this city - nor approach near enough to shoot an arrow, not even from the most powerful engine which throws missiles to the greatest distance; nor shall he occupy any part... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I WILL DEFEND THIS CITY, TO SAVE IT, FOR MINE OWN SAKE, AND FOR MY SERVANT DAVID'S SAKE._ For mine own sake - (cf. Isaiah 48:11.) AND FOR MY SERVANT DAVID'S SAKE - i:e., from regard to the promise and solemn covenant established with David, relating to the stability of his kingdom and the pe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT NIGHT, THAT THE ANGEL OF THE LORD WENT OUT, AND SMOTE IN THE CAMP OF THE ASSYRIANS AN HUNDRED FOURSCORE AND FIVE THOUSAND: AND WHEN THEY AROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING, BEHOLD, THEY WERE ALL DEAD CORPSES._ And it came to pass that night. These two last words are not contained... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO SENNACHERIB KING OF ASSYRIA DEPARTED, AND WENT AND RETURNED, AND DWELT AT NINEVEH._ So Sennacherib ... departed, and went and returned х_ WAYICA`_ (H5265), decamped; Septuagint, apeere, took away by force, departed with the remnant of his army. The redundancy of expression used in this descript... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS HE WAS WORSHIPPING IN THE HOUSE OF NISROCH HIS GOD, THAT ADRAMMELECH AND SHAREZER HIS SONS SMOTE HIM WITH THE SWORD: AND THEY ESCAPED INTO THE LAND OF ARMENIA. AND ESARHADDON HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ As he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch. Nisroch, a great eagl... [ Continue Reading ]