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Isaiah 36:10

The *Rabshakeh continues to try to make the people’s trust in God weaker. Now he pretends that the *Lord himself has ordered the *Assyrian attack.

The *Rabshakeh continues to *threaten

v11 Then Eleakim and Shebna and Joah said to the *Rabshakeh, ‘Please speak to us in the Aramaic language. We understand it. Do not use the Hebrew language. Because all the people on the wall will understand what you are saying.’

v12 The *Rabshakeh replied, ‘My master’s message is not only for Hezekiah. It is also a message for the people on the wall. Because the Great King of Assyria’s army will surround their city. And the army will cut off every bit of food and all the water supplies. Then the people will have to eat and to drink things that disgust them.’

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See also Isaiah 36:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 36:10. _AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD_] Probably some apostate Israelitish priest might have encouraged the king of Assyria by telling him that JEHOVAH had given him a commission agai...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD - Am I come up without his permission or command? Rabshakeh here speaks in the name of his master; and he means to say that he had the express command of Yahweh t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE HISTORICAL PARENTHESIS (36-39) The center of the book of Isaiah is a brief but deeply interesting historical account of events during the reign of King Hezekiah. His name is mentioned not less tha...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with th...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AM. COME UP. As foretold twenty-eight years before (Isaiah 10:6). If Rabshakeh knew of this, it shows the falsehood of "half the truth"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    That the Assyrian should represent himself as commissioned by Jehovah to avenge the desecration of his sanctuaries is not by any means incredible. A precisely similar sentiment is put into the mouth o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The speech of the Rabshakeh, dealing with the two motives which might be supposed to have induced Hezekiah to rebel: (1) his reliance on the help of Egypt (Isaiah 36:6), and (2) his religious confiden...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD— It is plain from the seventh verse, that Rabshakeh, by _the Lord,_ meant that god whom himself or his master the king of Assyria adored, and not the Jehovah of t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VI. CHASTENING THROUGH CAPTIVITY Chapter S 36-39 A. PRESSURE, CHAPTER 36 1. PREDICAMENT TEXT: Isaiah 36:1-12 1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib, king o...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 boast...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR] The chronology is difficult. From Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 we might conclude that Hezekiah's sickness and the Babylonian embassy followed Sennacherib's invasion, whereas Isa...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD... — The words may be simply an empty boast. Possibly, however, Isaiah’s teaching that it was Jehovah who brought the King of Assyria into Judah, and used him as an i...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּה֙ הֲ מִ בַּלְעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה עָלִ֛יתִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33, wit...

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

    This chapter is the first of four which constitute a brief historical interlude. All have to do with Hezekiah and Isaiah. The first two are related to the prophecies of judgment so far as they are of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said to me, (i) Go up against this land, and destroy it. (i) Thus the wicked to deceive us, will pretend the Name of th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXXVI....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._And now have I come up without Jehovah? _He now attacks Hezekiah in another manner, by telling him that it will serve no purpose to assemble his forces and to make other warlike preparations. For...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 36, 37, 38, AND 39. Chapter s 36-39 relate the history of the invasion of Sennacherib, its result, and the sickness unto death of Hezekiah, which preceded it:...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND AM I NOW COME UP WITHOUT THE LORD AGAINST THIS LAND TO DESTROY IT?.... He would insinuate that he had a commission from the Lord God, and that it was by his will and order that he came up to destr...

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

    _A.M. 3292. B.C. 712._ In this and the three following Chapter s is contained the historical part of the book of Isaiah, relating a memorable transaction, strongly confirmative of the divine mission...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? This argument was intended to be particularly effective in breaking down the _ morale_ of the Jews. THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, GO UP...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 36:10 up H5927 (H8804) without H1107 LORD H3068 land H776 destroy H7843 (H8687) LORD H3068 said...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? It was Yahweh himself who said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.” But what about trusting in Yahweh? Let them now con...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sennacherib's invasion and Jehovah's deliverance. The threats of Rabshakeh. CHARACTERS: God, Sennacherib, Rabskakeh, Hezekiah, Eliakim, Shebnab, Joab, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: The enemies of G...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 36:1. _In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah,_ Sennacherib came up against all the cities of Judah. This history is related in 2 Chronicles 32., with notes and comments: but it was proper for Isai...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Rabshakeh said unto them_ WAR ORATORS We have a class of speakers in this country who are silent on all great social and cosmopolitan topics, but make themselves heard and felt the moment any matte...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF EVENTS IN THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CH. 36-39.). SECTION I. SENNACHERIB'S ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE JUDAEA, AND HIS OVERTHR

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Isaiah chapter 36. Last week as we completed the thirty-fifth chapter of the book of Isaiah, of course, we got into those glorious prophecies of the future Kingdom Age when Jesus Chri...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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