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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

2 Kings 19:25

Hast thou not heard long ago ... - Rather, “Hast thou not heard, that from long ago I did this, from ancient times I fashioned it? etc.” The former part of the verse refers to the secret divine decrees, whereby the affairs of this world are determined and ordered from the very beginning of things. Sennacherib’s boasting, however, proved that he did not know this, that he did not recognize himself simply as God’s instrument - “the rod of His anger” Isaiah 10:5 - but regarded his victories as gained by his own “strength and wisdom” Isaiah 10:13.

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See also 2 Kings 19:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 2 Kings 19:25. _HAST THOU NOT HEARD_] Here _Jehovah_ speaks, and shows this boasting king that what he had done was done by the _Divine_ _appointment_, and that of his own counsel and might he...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DONE IT. made it: i.e. the earth....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This verse and the three following contain Jehovah's response to Sennacherib. The boaster is told that in all he has done he has been but God's instrument, and that the events in which he has played t...

  • 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

    _HAST THOU NOT HEARD LONG AGO HOW I HAVE DONE IT, AND OF ANCIENT TIMES THAT I HAVE FORMED IT? NOW HAVE I BROUGHT IT TO PASS, THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE TO LAY WASTE FENCED CITIES INTO RUINOUS HEAPS._ Has...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:25 formed (e-18) Or 'purposed.'...

  • 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

    HAST THOU.. DONE IT] This begins the Lord's response to Sennacherib's boastings. The Assyrian king had in reality only been an agent deputed to carry out the divine purposes: cp. Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah...

  • 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

    HAST THOU NOT HEARD ...? — _Hast thou not heard? In the far past it I made; in the days of yore did I fashion it; now have I brought it to pass._ The “it” — the thing long since foreordained by Jehova...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹֽא ־שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ לְ מֵֽ רָחֹוק֙ אֹתָ֣הּ

  • 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

    Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? (q) now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous hea...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _I have formed it, &c. All thy exploits, in which thou takest pride, are no more than what I have decreed; and are not to be ascribed to thy wisdom or strength, but to my will and ordinance: who have...

  • 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

    _Hast thou not heard long ago [how] I have done it, [and] of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities [into] ruinous heaps....

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

    _Hast thou not heard long ago_, &c. Hast thou not long since learned that which some of thy philosophers could have taught thee; that there is a supreme and powerful God, by whose decree and providenc...

  • 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

    Hast thou not heard long ago how I, Jehovah, HAVE DONE IT, that it was in reality God who had planned and executed these decrees upon the nations, the Assyrian king being but a small instrument in His...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hezekiah's Prayer and the Deliverance of Jerusalem...

  • 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)

    HAST THOU NOT HEARD LONG AGO HOW I HAVE DONE IT, AND OF ANCIENT TIMES THAT I HAVE FORMED IT? NOW HAVE I BROUGHT IT TO PASS, THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE TO LAY WASTE FENCED CITIES INTO RUINOUS HEAPS: Or, H...

  • 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

    Hast thou not long since learned that which some of thy philosophers could and did teach thee, that there is a supreme and powerful God, by whose decree and providence all these wars and calamities we...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 19:25 hear H8085 (H8804) ago H7350 made H6213 (H8804) ancient H6924 times H3117 formed H3335 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH COMMUNICATES TO KING HEZEKIAH ‘THE WORD OF YHWH' NOW ACTIVE AGAINST THE KING OF ASSYRIA (2 KINGS 19:20). As a result of King Hezekiah's prayer Isaiah was given a prophetic message, an ‘oracle'...

  • 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 19:20 A second prophecy from ISAIAH 1:1 (compare vv. 2 Kings 1

  • 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

    Acts 4:27; Acts 4:28; Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 10:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hast thou not, &c. — Hast thou not long since learned, that which some of thy philosophers could teach thee; that there is a supreme and powerful God, by whose decree and providence all these wars and...

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