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Verse 26. _TALK NOT WITH US IN THE JEWS' LANGUAGE_] The object of this
blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to _sedition_, that the
city and the king might be delivered into his hand....
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THE SYRIAN LANGUAGE - i. e., Aramaic; probably the dialect of
Damascus, a Semitic language nearly akin to their own, but suffciently
different to be unintelligible to ordinary Jews
THE PEOPLE THAT AR...
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IV. THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH, MANASSEH AND AMON
1. Hezekiah and Sennacherib's Invasion
CHAPTER 18
_ 1. Hezekiah, King of Judah (2 Kings 18:1; 2 Kings 2 Chron. 29-32)_
2. The Revival (2 Kings 18:4)
3...
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2 KINGS 18:13 TO 2 KINGS 19:37. SENNACHERIB'S CAMPAIGN.
2 Kings 18:13. In the fourteenth year: if Hezekiah began to reign five
years before the fall of Samaria (722 B.C.), and Sennacherib did not
succ...
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SYRIAN. Aramaic....
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Further insolence of Rab-shakeh. He addresses the people that stand on
the wall. Despair of hezekiah's ministers (2 Chronicles 32:13-19;
Isaiah 35:1-2)
26. _Speak, I pray thee … in the Syrian language...
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B. SENNACHERIB'S INITIAL SURRENDER DEMANDS 18:17-19:7
The Assyrian king was not satisfied with the tribute paid by Hezekiah.
He wanted nothing less than the total surrender of Jerusalem. While he
hims...
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_THEN SAID ELIAKIM THE SON OF HILKIAH, AND SHEBNA, AND JOAH, UNTO
RABSHAKEH, SPEAK, I PRAY THEE, TO THY SERVANTS IN THE SYRIAN LANGUAGE;
FOR WE UNDERSTAND IT: AND TALK NOT WITH US IN THE JEWS' LANGUAG...
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18:26 Syriac, (b-22) Or 'Aramaic.'...
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THE SYRIAN LANGUAGE] i.e. Aramean, a language which served as the
principal medium of intercourse between the various nationalities in
the East. This would be intelligible to the state officials both...
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HEZEKIAH AND SENNACHERIB
This chapter describes the reign of Hezekiah of Judah, his religious
reforms, and the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib, king of Assyria,
who sent one of his officers to deman...
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THE LAST KINGS OF *ISRAEL AND *JUDAH
BOOK OF 2 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 18
HEZEKIAH’S RULE AS KING OF *JUDAH
V1 Hezekiah, Ahaz’s son, began to rule as king of *Judah. He did so
in the 3rd y...
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SPEAK, I PRAY THEE... IN THE SYRIAN LANGUAGE. — HezeMah’s
ministers naturally dread the effect of Rab-shakeh’s arguments and
assertions upon the garrison of the city. The people, many of whom had
alwa...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֶלְיָקִ֣ים בֶּן
־חִ֠לְקִיָּהוּ וְ...
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HEZEKIAH
B.C. 715-686
2 Kings 18:1
"For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord, and was strong
in the ways of David his father, as Esay the prophet, who was great
and faithful in his visi...
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HEZEKIAH AND ASSYRIA
B.C. 701
2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 19:1
"When, sudden-how think ye the end?
Did I say ‘without friend'?
Say rather from marge to blue marge
The whole sky grew his targe,
With...
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SILENT BEFORE THE BOASTER
2 Kings 18:26
The Jews met the taunts of Rabshakeh with silence. It was wise policy.
It is infinitely better to hand over our cause to God, and leave Him
to answer for us an...
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We now begin the third section of this Book, which includes the story
of the reigns of Hezekiah and Josiah, with a period of reaction and
sin between the two. It is remarkable that such a man as Hezek...
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Syriac, or Chaldean language, which was spoken at the Assyrian court,
1 Esdras iv. 7., and Daniel ii. 4. Rabsaces was acquainted with both
the languages; as the Jews say he was an apostate, which they...
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The modest request of Hezekiah's servants to speak in the Syrian
language, meeting with such contempt, may serve to teach us how
confident of success the blasphemer was. And it only serves to
heighten...
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The kingdom of Israel, or Samaria, was now closed, not for ever, but
for a season, and a season protracted long, even unto this day. There
has been no restoration save in individuals. We know that Jeh...
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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 18:17...
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Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language;
for we understand [it]: and talk not with us in the Jews' langua...
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_Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language_ It is
probable Eliakim perceived the people to be terrified with his big
words, and therefore requested him, in the name of the other
commi...
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1 Hezekiah his good reigne.
4 He destroyeth idolatrie, and prospereth.
9 Samaria is caried captiue for their sins.
13 Sennacherib inuading Iudah, is pacified by a tribute.
17 Rabshakeh sent by Sen...
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Then said Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah, unto
Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language,
which the common soldiers and the people on the wall could not
u...
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THE ASSYRIAN EXPEDITION AGAINST JERUSALEM...
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THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH IN JUDAH
(vv.1-16)
In Judah the reign of Hezekiah provided a refreshing relief to the
tendency of departure from God. It was during his reign that Assyria
took Samaria into cap...
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17-37 Rabshakeh tries to convince the Jews, that it was to no purpose
for them to stand it out. What confidence is this wherein thou
trustest? It were well if sinners would submit to the force of thi...
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Upon which these officers stood; not being willing to put themselves
into the power of such a barbarous and perfidious enemy, by going out
of the city....
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2 Kings 18:26 Eliakim H471 son H1121 Hilkiah H2518 Shebna H7644 Joah
H3098 said H559 (H8799) Rabshakeh H7262 speak
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CONTENTS: Reign and revival of Hezekiah over Judah. Victory over
Phillistines. Invasion of Sennacherib. Insolence of Rab-shekeh.
CHARACTERS: God, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, Eliakim,...
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2 Kings 18:4. _Nehushtan;_ that is, _their brass,_ or mere brass, or
_parvum æs,_ corrupted brass, by way of contempt. In the Chronicum of
Alexander, cited by Eusebius out of Anestasio Niceno, we are...
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_Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea._
A STRIKING REFORMATION, A RUTHLESS DESPOTISM, AND AN UNPRINCIPLED
DIPLOMACY
I. A striking reformation (2 Kings 18:3).
1. The perverting tendency of...
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2 KINGS—NOTE ON 2 KINGS 18:26 PLEASE SPEAK TO YOUR SERVANTS IN
ARAMAIC. Aramaic was the language of the Assyrian Empire west of the
Euphrates. The educated Judean royal officials would have understood...
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CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
2 Kings 18:13. IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF HEZEKIAH DID SENNACHERIB,
&c.—_Comp._ Isaiah 36. This mighty Assyrian was with his vast army
on his way to war with his hated...
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EXPOSITION
18-25
THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH AFTER THE FALL OF SAMARIA.
2 KINGS 18:1
THE ACCESSION
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In chapter eighteen we now move back to the southern kingdom of Judah.
Inasmuch as the northern kingdom has now been destroyed from the rest
of the... from the rest of Second Kings on we'll be dealing...