Isaiah 36 - Introduction

Sennacherib invadeth Judah. Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib, by blasphemous persuasions soliciteth the people to revolt: his words are told to Hezekiah.

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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 of our prophet. So in Jeremiah, a history of an event is added to the prophesies which he had frequently delivered concerning it. See chap. 52: Some have thought that Isaiah wrote the prophesies in the former part of this book before the irruption of the Assyrian into Judaea, and the latter ones, from chap. 40: after it.