Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 36

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Isaiah 36 . 1 , Sennacherib invades Judah; Isaiah 36 . 2 , Rabshakeh , sent by Sennacherib , by blasphemous persuasions solicits the people to revolt; Isaiah 36 . 22 , His words are told to Hezekiah.

Isaiah 36:1

In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

Isaiah 36:1 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:2

And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field.

Isaiah 36:2 · BSB

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am 3294 , bc 710

Isaiah 36:3

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

Isaiah 36:3 · BSB

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scribe or , secretary

Isaiah 36:4

The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

Isaiah 36:4 · BSB

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Assyria Assyria proper , now Kourdistan , was bounded by Armenia on the north , Media and Persia on the east , Babylonia on the south , and the Tigris , which divides it from Mesopotamia , on the west , between 33 degrees and 38 degrees n lat. and 42 degrees and 46 degrees e long. But the Assyrian empire , the bounds of which were different at different times , in its most flourishing state , according to the descriptions of the Greek and Roman writers , comprehended all the countries and nations between the Mediterranean on the west , and the Indus on the east , and between the deserts of Scythia on the north , and the Indian ocean on the south.

Isaiah 36:5

You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

Isaiah 36:5 · BSB

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Heb. a word of lips. I have counsel and strength for war. or , but counsel and strength are for the war

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Isaiah 36:6

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Isaiah 36:6 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:7

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

Isaiah 36:7 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:8

Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

Isaiah 36:8 · BSB

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or , hostages

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Isaiah 36:9

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

Isaiah 36:9 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:10

So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

Isaiah 36:10 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:11

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

Isaiah 36:11 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:12

But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

Isaiah 36:12 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:13

Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

Isaiah 36:13 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:14

This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

Isaiah 36:14 · BSB

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Isaiah 37 . 10-13

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Isaiah 36:15

Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

Isaiah 36:15 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:16

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

Isaiah 36:16 · BSB

Make an agreement with me by a present7 parallels

or , Seek my favour by a present , Heb. Make with me a blessing

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Isaiah 36:17

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isaiah 36:17 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:18

Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Isaiah 36:18 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Isaiah 36:19 · BSB

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The variation of Arphad and Arpad exists only in the translation; the original being uniformly ארפד [Strong's H774]. Isaiah 10 . 9

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Calmet is of opinion that Sepharvaim was the capital of the Saspires , who , according to Herodotus , were the only people that inhabited between the Colchians and Medes; and probably the Sarapases , whom Strabo places in Armenia. Hiller considers the name as denoting Sephar of the Parvaim , i.e. , Mount Sephar adjacent to the regions of Arabia called Parvaim. But it is more probable , as Wells and others suppose , that Sepharvaim is the ינצבסב , Sipphara , of Ptolemy , the יננבסחםשם נןכיע , the city of the Sippareni , mentioned by Abydenus , and probably the Hipparenum of Pliny , a city of Mesopotamia , situated upon the Euphrates , near where it is divided into two arms , by one of which , it is probable , it was divided into two parts

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Isaiah 36:20

Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

Isaiah 36:20 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:21

But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

Isaiah 36:21 · BSB

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Isaiah 36:22

Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 36:22 · BSB

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  • Isaiah 33:7
  • Isaiah 37:1
  • Isaiah 37:2
  • 2 Kings 5:7
  • Ezra 9:3
  • Matthew 26:65 The history of the invasion of Sennacherib , observes Bp. Lowth , and the miraculous destruction of his army , which makes the subject of so many of Isaiah's prophecies , is very properly inserted here , as affording the best light to many parts of these prophecies; and as almost necessary to introduce the prophecy in the
  • Isaiah 37:1 being the answer of God to Hezekiah's prayer , which could not be properly understood without it. Sennacherib succeeded his father Shalmaneser on the throne of Assyria , am 3290 , bc 714 , and reigned only about eight years

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Quotations Isaiah 36 → 2 Kings 18, Isaiah 36:2-37 → 2 Kings 18:17-19
Chiasms
Shaped Isaiah 36:1–37:7
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