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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

2 Kings 19:36

God spared Sennacherib, not in mercy, but in wrath, reserving him to a more dreadful and shameful death by the hands of his own children.

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See also 2 Kings 19:36 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 36. _DWELT AT NINEVEH._] This was the capital of the Assyrian empire....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DWELT AT NINEVEH - The meaning is not that Sennacherib made no more expeditions at all, which would he untrue, for his annals show us that he warred in Armenia, Babylonia, Susiana, and Cilicia, during...

  • 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

    DEPARTED. There is no mention of the capture of Jerusalem in Sennacherib's inscription. This omission is more remarkable than what Sennacherib says. Had he taken Jerusalem, the omission would be unacc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and dwelt at Nineveh_ Apparently, and very naturally, deterred from any of his grander schemes by the terrible calamity which had befallen him, Sennacherib went to his own capital. How long a time el...

  • 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. THE DELIVERANCE OF JUDAH 19:35-37 TRANSLATION (35) And it came to pass in that night that the angel of the LORD went out and smote in the camp of Assyria 185,000 men; and they arose in the morning...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    NINEVEH] its ruins have been found opposite the modern Mosul....

  • 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...

  • 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

    DEPARTED, AND WENT. — _Broke up camp, and marched._ There should be a stop at _returned._ AND DWELT AT NINEVEH. — Or, _and he abode in Nineveh,_ implying that he did not again invade the west. Sennach...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּסַּ֣ע וַ יֵּ֔לֶךְ וַ יָּ֖שָׁב סַנְחֵרִ֣

  • 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

    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 a...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    We have here not only the fulfillment of God's promises in the salvation of his people; but the pouring out of his anger in the destruction of his enemies. Sennacherib himself, though saved, was only...

  • 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...

  • 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

    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Ver. 36. _So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed._] Being glad he had escaped with the skin of his teeth, with t...

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

    _So Sennacherib departed_ Ashamed to see himself, after all his proud boasts, thus defeated, and disabled to pursue his conquests, or even to secure what he had gained, the flower of his army being cu...

  • 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

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

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed, and went, and returned, the heaping of similar terms indicating the haste of his departure, AND DWELT AT NINEVEH, his capital city....

  • 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

    35-37 That night which followed the sending of this message to Hezekiah, the main body of their army was slain. See how weak the mightiest men are before Almighty God. Who ever hardened himself again...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 19:36 Sennacherib H5576 king H4428 Assyria H804 departed H5265 (H8799) went H3212 (H8799) returned H7725 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH TOTALLY UNEXPECTEDLY DEVASTATES THE ASSYRIAN ARMY CAUSING SENNACHERIB TO RETURN HOME WHERE SUBSEQUENTLY HE ARRANGES FOR HIS ASSASSINATION (2 KINGS 19:35). What happened now was totally unexpected...

  • 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 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 19:35 SENNACHERIB KING OF ASSYRIA DEPARTED AND WENT HOME. Sennacherib returned to Nineveh when he heard that 185,000 of his army had been struck down in one night by the...

  • 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

    2 Kings 19:28; 2 Kings 19:33; 2 Kings 19:7; Genesis 10:11; Genesis

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    So Sennacherib, &c. — The manner of the expression intimates the great disorder and distraction of mind he was in....

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