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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

2 Kings 19:22

And lifted up thieve eyes on high As those do who have haughty thoughts, and look down on others with contempt and scorn. Even against the Holy One of Israel Whose honour is dear to him, and who has power to vindicate it, which the gods of the heathen have not.

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    THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL - This is a favorite phrase with Isaiah, in whose prophecies it is found 27 times, while it occurs five times only in the rest of Scripture Psalms 71:22; Psalms 78:41; Psalms 89...

  • 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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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and lift_[R.V. LIFTED] _up thine eyes on high_ The name by which Jehovah is often called is -the Most High" (cf. Psalms 56:2). To utter reproaches and blasphemies against Him betrays a great upliftin...

  • 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

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHOM HAST THOU REPROACHED AND BLASPHEMED? AND AGAINST WHOM HAST THOU EXALTED THY VOICE, AND LIFTED UP THINE EYES ON HIGH? EVEN AGAINST THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL._ Whom hast thou reproached and blasphem...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • 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

    ON HIGH — _i.e.,_ towards heaven (Isaiah 40:26). (Comp. Isaiah 14:13.) THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. — A favourite expression of Isaiah’s, in whose book it occurs twenty-seven times, and only five times els...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶת ־מִ֤י חֵרַ֨פְתָּ֙ וְ גִדַּ֔פְתָּ וְ עַל

  • 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

    Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] (o) against the Holy [One] of Israel. (o) God counts that as an inju...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of Israel. This title is often found in Isaias; xlv. 11., and xlvii. 4., &c._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • 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

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • KJV Original Language Details

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, when he lifted it up to utter proud words, AND LIFTED UP THINE EYES ON HIGH? EVEN AGAINST THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL...

  • 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...

  • 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

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Kings 19:22 reproached H2778 (H8765) blasphemed H1442 (H8765) raised H7311 (H8689) voice H6963 up H5375 ...

  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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