Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. This and Isaiah 37:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1, form the historical appendix closing the first division of Isaiah's proprecies, and were a... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field. RABSHAKEH. In , Tartan and Rabsaris are joined with him. Rabashakeh was probably the chief leader; Rab is a t... [ Continue Reading ]
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder. ELIAKIM - successor to Shebna, who had been "over the household" - i:e., chief minister of the king: in Isaiah 22:15 this was foretold. SCRIBE - secretary. R... [ Continue Reading ]
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? GREAT KING - the usual title of the Persian and Assyrian kings, as they had many subordinate princes or kings under them over provinces (.)... [ Continue Reading ]
I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? COUNSEL - Egypt was famed for its wisdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. LO, THOU TRUSTEST ... ON EGYPT. It was a similar alliance with So (i:e., Sabacho, or else Sevechus) the Ethiopian ki... [ Continue Reading ]
But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar? BUT IF THOU SAY TO ME ... The Assyrian mistakes Hezekiah's religious reforms, whereby he took awa... [ Continue Reading ]
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. GIVE PLEDGES - a taunting challenge. Only give the guarantee that you can supply as many as 2,000 riders, and I will give thee... [ Continue Reading ]
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? CAPTAIN - a governor under a satrap-even he commands more horsemen than this.... [ Continue Reading ]
And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it. AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD AGAINST THIS LAND? - a boastful inference from the past successes of Assyria, designed to influence the Jews to surrender-their... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall. SPEAK ... IN THE SYRIAN LANGUAGE - rather, Aramean. The language sp... [ Continue Reading ]
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you? HATH MY MASTER SENT ME TO THY MASTER ... ? - Is it to thy master and thee that I a... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. Rabshakeh speaks louder and plainer than ever to the men on the wall.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS SAITH THE KING, LET NOT HEZEKIAH DECEIVE YOU: FOR HE SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO DELIVER YOU._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. The foes of God's people cannot succeed against them, unless they can shake their trust in Him (cf. ).... [ Continue Reading ]
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; MAKE (AN AGREEMENT) WITH ME (BY) A PRESENT - `Make peace... [ Continue Reading ]
_UNTIL I COME AND TAKE YOU AWAY TO A LAND LIKE YOUR OWN LAND, A LAND OF CORN AND WINE, A LAND OF BREAD AND VINEYARDS._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? HAMATH AND ARPHAD - (note .) SEPHARVAIM - literally, the two scribes. The came as Sipphara, on the east of Euphrates, above Babylon, near the modern Mosaib. Berosus ('Fragm... [ Continue Reading ]
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? WHO (ARE THEY) ... ? (Compare ; .) Here he virtually contradicts his own assertion (), that he had 'come up against the land with the Lord.' Liars ne... [ Continue Reading ]
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD - so as not to enter into a war of words with the blasphemer (; ).... [ Continue Reading ]
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. CLOTHES RENT - in grief and horror at the blasphemy (). Remarks: The godly do not escape... [ Continue Reading ]