Isaiah 37
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Isaiah 37
Hezekiah Consults Isaiah
1 #
2 Kings 19.1–37
When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2#Isa 22.15, 20And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3#Isa 26.16–18They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4#Isa 36.15, 18, 20It may be that the Lord your God heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”
[[ 5When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6#Isa 7.4; 35.4Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master: Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 7#vv 9, 37, 38I myself will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”]]#37.5–7 Q ms lacks 37.5–7
8The Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. 9#v 7; Isa 18.1; 20.5Now the king#37.9 Heb he heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10#Isa 36.15“Thus shall you speak to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11#Isa 10.9–11; 36.18–20See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 12#Gen 11.31; 12.1–4; 2 Kings 17.6; 18.11; Acts 7.2Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Laar, Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?”
Hezekiah’s Prayer
14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. 15And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying: 16#Ex 25.22; Deut 10.17; Isa 42.5; 45.12“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 17#v 4; Ps 74.22; Dan 9.18Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 18#2 Kings 15.29; 1 Chr 5.26; Nah 2.11, 12Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands 19#Isa 2.8; 26.14and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed. 20#Ps 46.10; Isa 25.9; Ezek 36.23So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”
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v 2
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria, 22#Job 16.4; Jer 14.17; Lam 2.13; Zech 2.10this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:
She despises you; she scorns you—
virgin daughter Zion;
she tosses her head—behind your back,
daughter Jerusalem.
23 #
v 4
; Isa 2.11; 5.15, 21; Ezek 39.7; Hab 1.12“Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
24 #
Isa 8.7, 8; 10.18, 33, 34; 14.8 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I came to its remotest height,
its densest forest.
25I dug wells
and drank waters;
I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.’
26 #
Isa 10.6; 17.1; 40.21, 28; 46.11; Acts 2.23; 4.27, 28 “Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27 #
Ps 129.6; Isa 40.7 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
that is scorched before the east wind.#37.27 Q ms: MT and a field before standing grain
28 #
Ps 139.1
“I know your rising up#37.28 Q ms Gk: MT lacks your rising up and your sitting down,
your going out and coming in
and your raging against me.
29 #
v 34
; Isa 10.12; 30.28; Ezek 38.4Because you have raged against me
and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth;
I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.
30“And this shall be the sign for you: This year eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31#v 4; Isa 4.2; 10.20; 27.6The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward, 32#v 4; 2 Kings 19.31; Isa 9.7; Zech 1.14for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
33“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it. 34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord. 35#2 Kings 20.6; Isa 38.6; 48.9, 11For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 #
2 Kings 19.35; Isa 10.12, 33, 34 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies. 37Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh. 38#Ezra 4.2; Jer 51.27As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.
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Isaiah 37
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Isaiah 37
Hezekiah Consults Isaiah
1 #
2 Kings 19.1–37
When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2#Isa 22.15, 20And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. 3#Isa 26.16–18They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4#Isa 36.15, 18, 20It may be that the Lord your God heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”
[[ 5When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6#Isa 7.4; 35.4Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master: Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 7#vv 9, 37, 38I myself will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”]]#37.5–7 Q ms lacks 37.5–7
8The Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. 9#v 7; Isa 18.1; 20.5Now the king#37.9 Heb he heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10#Isa 36.15“Thus shall you speak to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11#Isa 10.9–11; 36.18–20See, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? 12#Gen 11.31; 12.1–4; 2 Kings 17.6; 18.11; Acts 7.2Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my predecessors destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Laar, Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?”
Hezekiah’s Prayer
14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; then Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. 15And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying: 16#Ex 25.22; Deut 10.17; Isa 42.5; 45.12“O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 17#v 4; Ps 74.22; Dan 9.18Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 18#2 Kings 15.29; 1 Chr 5.26; Nah 2.11, 12Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands 19#Isa 2.8; 26.14and have hurled their gods into the fire, though they were no gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone—and so they were destroyed. 20#Ps 46.10; Isa 25.9; Ezek 36.23So now, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”
21 #
v 2
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria, 22#Job 16.4; Jer 14.17; Lam 2.13; Zech 2.10this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:
She despises you; she scorns you—
virgin daughter Zion;
she tosses her head—behind your back,
daughter Jerusalem.
23 #
v 4
; Isa 2.11; 5.15, 21; Ezek 39.7; Hab 1.12“Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and haughtily lifted your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
24 #
Isa 8.7, 8; 10.18, 33, 34; 14.8 By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I came to its remotest height,
its densest forest.
25I dug wells
and drank waters;
I dried up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.’
26 #
Isa 10.6; 17.1; 40.21, 28; 46.11; Acts 2.23; 4.27, 28 “Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
27 #
Ps 129.6; Isa 40.7 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
that is scorched before the east wind.#37.27 Q ms: MT and a field before standing grain
28 #
Ps 139.1
“I know your rising up#37.28 Q ms Gk: MT lacks your rising up and your sitting down,
your going out and coming in
and your raging against me.
29 #
v 34
; Isa 10.12; 30.28; Ezek 38.4Because you have raged against me
and your arrogance has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth;
I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.
30“And this shall be the sign for you: This year eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 31#v 4; Isa 4.2; 10.20; 27.6The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward, 32#v 4; 2 Kings 19.31; Isa 9.7; Zech 1.14for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
33“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it. 34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord. 35#2 Kings 20.6; Isa 38.6; 48.9, 11For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 #
2 Kings 19.35; Isa 10.12, 33, 34 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies. 37Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh. 38#Ezra 4.2; Jer 51.27As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.
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