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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 19:14

Hezekiah received the letter - The inscriptions show that scribes accompanied the Assyrian armies, with the materials of their craft, so that such a dispatch might be easily drawn up. As Hezekiah himself “read” it, we may presume that it was in the Hebrew tongue.

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  • 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

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. Hezekiah's zeal for the house of Jehovah is seen in his "Songs of the degrees". Compare Psalms 122:1; Psalms 122:9; Psalms 134:1;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Hezekiah spreads the letter before the Lord, and prays for deliverance (2 Chronicles 32:20; Isaiah 37:14-20) 14. _Hezekiah received the letter_ Though bringing a written document the messengers of Sen...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • 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

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LETTER. — The Hebrew word is plural, like the Latin _litterae._ The first “it” is plural, the second singular. 2 Kings 19:10 may be regarded as embodying the substance of the letter, which the env...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּקַּ֨ח חִזְקִיָּ֧הוּ אֶת ־הַ סְּפָרִ֛ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the (h) LORD. (h) Before the Ark of the covenant....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    2 Kings 19:1...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord_ Into the outward court of the temple, for further he might not go, and at the entrance of the court of the priests, he looked toward the sanctuary, where...

  • 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

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  • 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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 19:14 Hezekiah H2396 received H3947 (H8799) letter H5612 hand H3027 messengers H4397 read H7121 (H8799) H

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    2 Kings 19:14 Hezekiah's letter would be very different in form from our letters. The Assyrians did not use paper or even skins, but did their writing on clay. It is very likely that the letter was a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • 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

    1 Kings 8:28; Ezra 9:5; Isaiah 37:14; Psalms 123:1; Psalms 74:10;...

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