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2 Kings 19:30

The remnant … shallyet again take rool Just as in the case of their crops, so shall it be with the people. God shall preserve a remnant, as He was doing in the shed grain of the harvest, and these shall once more grow up, in spite of their present low estate.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 30. _THE REMNANT - SHALL YET AGAIN TAKE ROOT_] As your _corn_ shall take root in the soil, and bring forth and abundantly _multiply_ itself, so shall the Jewish people; the population shall be g...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE REMNANT THAT IS ESCAPED - Terrible ravages seem to have been committed in the first attack (2 Kings 18:13 note). And though the second invasion was comparatively harmless, yet it probably fell hea...

  • 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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 377 HEZEKIAH’S DELIVERANCE FROM SENNACHERIB 2 Kings 19:30. _The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusale...

  • 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 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_...

  • 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

    THE REMNANT] cp. 2 Kings 19:3. The population, so sadly thinned by the war, would again recover its strength and numbers....

  • 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

    THE REMNANT THAT IS ESCAPED OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. — Rather, _the survival_ (_survivors_)_ of the house of Judah that are left._ (Comp. Isaiah 11:11.) SHALL YET AGAIN TAKE ROOT. — Literally, _shall ad...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ יָ֨סְפָ֜ה פְּלֵיטַ֧ת בֵּית ־יְהוּדָ֛ה הַ נ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take (u) root downward, and bear fruit upward. (u) The Lord will multiply in great number that small remnant of Judah that escape...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Upward, like a fruitful tree. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a multitude of most rich and precious things appear in these verses. Observe, Reader! how long an answer the Lord returns to a short prayer. God is not only more ready to hear than we to pray; bu...

  • 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

    And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. Ver. 30. _And the remnant that is escaped,_] _sc., _ From the sword of the Assyrian, w...

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

    _The remnant that is escaped shall yet again bear fruit upward _ Shall increase and multiply greatly. It is a metaphor taken from plants. “The prophet passes from fields to men, and from the cultivati...

  • 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

    And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah, those of Jerusalem and elsewhere who had escaped the destructive hand of the Assyrians, SHALL YET AGAIN TAKE ROOT DOWNWARD AND BEAR FRUIT UPWARD,...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE REMNANT THAT IS ESCAPED OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH: _ Heb._ the escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-34 All Sennacherib's motions were under the Divine cognizance. God himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place, cannot but be safe, which he undertakes to protect. The invas...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i. e. shall increase and multiply greatly; a metaphor from plants. Compare JOB 29:19....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 19:30 remnant H7604 (H8737) escaped H6413 house H1004 Judah H3063 again H3254 (H8804) root H8328 downward

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THROUGH ISAIAH YHWH GIVES A SIGN THAT JERUSALEM'S DELIVERANCE IS AT HAND (2 KINGS 19:29). As in the case of Moses in Exodus 3:12 and Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 the sign now given was to be found...

  • 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 19:29 THIS SHALL BE THE SIGN FOR YOU. The second part of Isaiah’s prophecy reveals the sign that Judah will recover from the Assyrian assault: the survivors will be provided fo...

  • 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 Chronicles 32:22; 2 Chronicles 32:23; 2 Kings 19:4; Isaiah 1:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The remnant, &c. — They shall be well fixt and provided for themselves, and then do good to others....

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