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Verse Isaiah 36:7. _BUT IF THOU SAY_ - "But if ye say"] _Two_ ancient
MSS. have תאמרו _tomeru_ in the plural number; so likewise the
_Septuagint,_ _Chaldee_, and the other copy, 2 Kings 18:22.
_YE S...
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BUT IF THOU SAY TO ME - If you shall make this plea, that you believe
Yahweh will protect you in your revolt. The word ‘thou’ here
refers to Hezekiah, or to the ambassadors speaking in his name. In 2...
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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...
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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...
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THOU. Some codices read "ye", as in 2 Kings 18:22.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
IS IT NOT HE... ? Manifesting Rabshakeh's ignorance....
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Not only is Hezekiah destitute of earthly help, but he has forfeited
the protection of his own deity, by what from the heathen point of
view seemed an act of sacrilege, the abolition of the local
sanc...
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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...
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BUT IF THOU SAY, &C.— It appears from this passage, what deep root
idolatry had taken in the time of Ahaz, when Hezekiah, the great
reformer of religion, seemed to have instituted a new one in the eye...
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VI. CHASTENING THROUGH CAPTIVITY
Chapter S 36-39
A. PRESSURE, CHAPTER 36
1. PREDICAMENT
TEXT: Isaiah 36:1-12
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Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib, king o...
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But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he,
whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said
to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?...
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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...
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The allusion is to Hezekiah's reformation; the reduction of the number
of shrines would seem to a heathen to dishonour the national god....
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IS IT NOT HE, WHOSE HIGH PLACES... — This was this impression left
on the mind of the Rabshakeh by what he heard of Hezekiah’s
reformation. From the Assyrian stand-point a god was honoured in
proporti...
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וְ כִי ־תֹאמַ֣ר אֵלַ֔י אֶל ־יְהוָ֥ה
אֱלֹהֵ֖ינ
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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...
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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...
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_Altar. Such is the blindness of infidels, that they confound what is
done to destroy idols, with their worship. (Worthington)_...
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7._And if thou shalt say to me. _Rabshakeh employs an argument which
consists of three parts. Either Hezekiah thinks that he has sufficient
strength to resist, or he expects assistance from Egypt, or...
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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:...
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BUT IF THOU SAY TO ME, WE TRUST IN THE LORD OUR GOD,.... In his
promises, providence, power, and protection, and not in human counsels
and strength; not in allies and auxiliaries, as Pharaoh king of E...
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_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...
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But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord, our God, in Jehovah, the
God of Israel, IS IT NOT HE WHOSE HIGH PLACES AND WHOSE ALTARS
HEZEKIAH HATH TAKEN AWAY AND SAID TO JUDAH AND TO JERUSALEM, YE SHA...
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THE ASSYRIANS THREATEN JERUSALEM.
The three Chapter s now following form the historical appendix to the
first part of the book of the prophet Isaiah, serving chiefly to make
the prophecies concerning...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Isaiah 36:7 say H559 (H8799) trust H982 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430
places H1116 altars H4196 Hezekiah...
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‘But if you say to me, “We trust in Yahweh our God.' Is not this
he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this
a...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 36:1 Historical Transition: “In Whom Do You
Now Trust?” These chapters of history form a bridge between the
mostly poetic chs. Isaiah 1:1 and...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 36:7 Because the Rabshakeh does not understand
that the God of Israel is different from the gods of the pagan HIGH
PLACES AND ALTARS, he assumes that Hezekiah’s destruction of th...
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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
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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...
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1 Chronicles 5:20; 1 Corinthians 2:15; 2 Chronicles 16:7; 2 Chronicles
30:14;...