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Isaiah 39:3
At first, Hezekiah answers only Isaiah’s second question – about the visitors’ own country.
At first, Hezekiah answers only Isaiah’s second question – about the visitors’ own country.
THEN CAME ISAIAH - Isaiah was accustomed to declare the will of God most freely to monarchs (see Isaiah 7) WHAT SAID THESE MEN? - What proposition have they made? What is the design of their coming?...
CHAPTER 39 Hezekiah's Self-Exaltation 1. _The ambassadors of Merodach-baladan (Isaiah 39:1)_ 2. _Hezekiah's boasting (Isaiah 39:2)_ 3. _Isaiah's inquiry (Isaiah 39:3)_ 4. The Babylonian captivity ann...
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...
The prophet's appearance on the scene shews that he suspected the king of coquetting with a foreign alliance, although it is remarkable that on neither side is there any explicit allusion to the polit...
D. PRESUMPTION, CHAPTER 39 1. PRIDE TEXT: Isaiah 39:1-4 1 At that time Merodachbaladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sic...
Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Ba...
ALLIANCE WITH BABYLON DENOUNCED Conclusion of the historical appendix. The chapter belongs to the period when Merodach-Baladan of Babylon was making efforts to bring the various peoples of W. Asia int...
THEN CAME ISAIAH... — The words that follow, like those in Isaiah 7:3, are spoken with the authority at once of age and of a Divine mission, perhaps also of a master speaking to one who had been his p...
וַ יָּבֹא֙ יְשַׁעְיָ֣הוּ הַ נָּבִ֔יא אֶל ־הַ
CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
This brief chapter tells the story of Hezekiah's folly. After his recovery an embassy came from Babylon ostensibly to congratulate him. That their real motive was sinister is evident from the attitude...
3._Then came Isaiah the Prophet _He continues the same narrative, but likewise adds doctrine. Although he does not say that God had sent him, yet it is certain that he did this by the influence of the...
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:...
THEN CAME ISAIAH THE PROPHET UNTO KING HEZEKIAH,.... Quickly after the ambassadors had been with the king, and he had shown them all his treasures; the prophet did not come of himself, but was sent by...
Then came Isaiah, the prophet, acting in his usual capacity as God's messenger, UNTO KING HEZEKIAH AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT SAID THESE MEN, AND FROM WHENCE CAME THEY UNTO THEE? The very presence of the...
THE BABYLONIAN EMBASSY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. Encouraged by the reverses which the Assyrian forces suffered in Syria, one of the viceroys of Babylon, the Chaldean Merodach-baladan, made himself, for a...
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Isaiah 39:3 Isaiah H3470 prophet H5030 went H935 (H8799) King H4428 Hezekiah H2396 said H559 (H8799) men...
‘Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, even from B...
CONTENTS: Hezekiah's folly. Babylonian captivity of Judah foretold. CHARACTERS: Isaiah, Merodach-baladan, Hezekiah. CONCLUSION: It is folly for one whom God has dignified to be overproud of the resp...
Isaiah 39:1. _Merodach-Baladan._ He is called Berodach in 2 Kings 20:12; and being the son of Baladan, he joined his father's name to his own. Merodach is the name of an idol, and Baladan the name of...
_Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, King of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah_ MERODACH-BALADAN Marduk-apal-iddina, son of Yakin, is the Chaldean ruler who more than any other vassa...
_Then came Isaiah the prophet unto King Hezekiah_ THE PROPHET HIGHER THAN THE KING It is well to have Isaiahs in society, for Hezekiahs could never keep it together. This is the tone we want. The p...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 39:3 Isaiah’s questions reveal he is alert to the danger that the Babylonians could cause Judah. ⇐ ⇔
EXPOSITION This chapter is parallel with 2 Kings 20:12, and scarcely differs from it at all. Verse I has the additional words, "and was recovered;" 2 Kings 20:2, the phrase, "was glad of them," for "h...
At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he heard that he had been sick, and that he had recovered (Isaiah 39:1). Now here's anot...
2 Chronicles 16:7; 2 Chronicles 19:2; 2 Chronicles 25:15; 2 Kings 20:14;...