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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

2 Kings 19:15

Earth. He attempts to make some reparation for the blasphemies which had been uttered (Calmet) and written. (Haydock)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 19:15. _THOU ART THE GOD, C._] Thou art not only God of Israel, but God also of Assyria, and of all the nations of the world....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHICH DWELLEST BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS - The reference is to the shechinah, or miraculous glory, which from time to time appeared above the mercy-seat from between the two cherubims, whose wings oversha...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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;...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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 S...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PRAYED. When assaulted by the king of terrors he "turned his face to the wall and prayed" (Isaiah 38:2). But when the king of Babylon came with. present he did not pray, and fell into the snare (Isaia...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord_ The Chronicler says -Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven". _O Lord God_[R.V. THE GOD] _of Israel, which dwellest...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 de...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 A...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:15 Same, (d-19) See Deuteronomy 32:39 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THOU.. _EVEN_ THOU ALONE] Whereas Sennacherib had counted the God of Israel among a number of deities all equally unable to withstand him (2 Kings 18:33), Hezekiah here asserts that the Lord (Jehovah)...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHICH DWELLEST BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS. — Rather, _which sittest above the cherubim,_ or, _the cherub-throned._ (Comp. Exodus 25:22; 1 Samuel 4:4; Psalms 18:10;...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּתְפַּלֵּ֨ל חִזְקִיָּ֜הוּ לִ פְנֵ֣י יְהוָה֮...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SPREADING THE CASE BEFORE THE LORD 2 Kings 19:14 That bowed form of King Hezekiah, kneeling before God with this insolent and blasphemous effusion spread out before him, is a beautiful suggestion of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Hezekiah (i) 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 h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    See, Reader, see how sweet and precious the blessed effects of grace! And, Lord, so do thou cause me to do by all the letters, and threats, and messages, and temptations of the devil, and all his part...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _HEZEKIAH’S PRAYER_ ‘And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord.’ 2 Kings 19:15 I. OBSERVE THE ONE PLEA UPON WHICH HEZEKIAH RESTS HIS CAUSE.—He says nothing of himself, and of the services which he had wr...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    2 Kings 19:1...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 heave...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hezekiah prayed and said, O Lord God of Israel_, &c. He calls him the God of _Israel_, because Israel was his peculiar people; and the God that dwelt between the cherubim, because there was the pecul...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, that being the place where the glory of the Lord appeared to His servants, Exodus 25:22, THOU A...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hezekiah's Prayer and the Deliverance of Jerusalem...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-19 Prayer is the never-failing resource of the tempted Christian, whether struggling with outward difficulties or inward foes. At the mercy-seat of his almighty Friend he opens his heart, spreads hi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 19:15 Hezekiah H2396 prayed H6419 (H8691) before H6440 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRAYER OF KING HEZEKIAH (2 KINGS 19:15). It is almost impossible for us to appreciate the tension which Hezekiah must have been experiencing at this time. Outside the city walls were the enemy. I...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 19:15 I. We are too apt to think that peace and prosperity are the only signs of God's favour; that if a nation be religious, it is certain to thrive and be happy. But it is not so. We find fr...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord._ WHAT TO DO WHEN TROUBLE COMES Hezekiah the King of Judah was in very great trouble. For some time the forces of the Assyrian had overcome the land and had taken t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 Jehov...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 4:10; 1 Kings 18:39; 1 Kings 8:23; 1 Samuel 4:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    O Lord God of Israel, &c. — He calls him the God of Israel, because Israel was his peculiar people; but yet the God of the whole earth, not as Sennacherib fancied, the God of Israel only. Let them say...

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