Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 37

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Isaiah 37 . 1 , Hezekiah mourning , sends to Isaiah to pray for them; Isaiah 37 . 6 , Isaiah comforts them; Isaiah 37 . 8 , Sennacherib , going to encounter Tirhakah , sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah; Isaiah 37 . 14 , Hezekiah’s prayer; Isaiah 37 . 21 , Isaiah’s prophecy of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib , and the good of Zion; Isaiah 37 . 36 , An angel slays the Assyrians; Isaiah 37 . 37 , Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.

Isaiah 37:1

On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 37:1 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:2

And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

Isaiah 37:2 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:3

to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

Isaiah 37:3 · BSB

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his day

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or , provocation

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Isaiah 37:4

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

Isaiah 37:4 · BSB

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left Heb. found

Isaiah 37:6

who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

Isaiah 37:6 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:7

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’”

Isaiah 37:7 · BSB

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send a blast upon him or , put a spirit into him

Isaiah 37:8

When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

Isaiah 37:8 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:9

Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “He has set out to fight against you.” On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Isaiah 37:9 · BSB

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Ethiopia Cush , which is generally rendered Ethiopia , is applied in Scripture to at least three distinct and different countries.

Isaiah 37:10

“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 37:10 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:11

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

Isaiah 37:11 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:12

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

Isaiah 37:12 · BSB

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Haran5 parallels

Haran , the Carrhe of the Greeks and Romans , is situated in the north-west part of Mesopotamia , between the Euphrates and the river Chebar; about 110 miles west of Nisibis , 90 east of Bir , 100 south of Diarbekir , and 170 north of Palmyra

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It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir , on the Tigris , called Madon , according to Asseman

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Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar

  • Genesis 14:1 as the Jerusalem Targum reads; for both of which the Syriac has Dolassar; and perhaps , as Doederlein supposes , the same as Sharra , a city of Mesopotamia , half a mile from the Euphrates
  • 2 Kings 19:12 Thelasar

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Isaiah 37:13

Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”

Isaiah 37:13 · BSB

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Hena Hena is probably the same as Anah , a city of Mesopotamia , situated on an island in the Euphrates.

Isaiah 37:14

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Isaiah 37:14 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:15

And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

Isaiah 37:15 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:16

“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 37:16 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:17

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

Isaiah 37:17 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:18

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.

Isaiah 37:18 · BSB

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nations Heb. lands

Isaiah 37:19

They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

Isaiah 37:19 · BSB

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no gods9 parallels

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cast Heb. given

Isaiah 37:20

And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”

Isaiah 37:20 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:21

Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Isaiah 37:21 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

Isaiah 37:22 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:23 · BSB

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the Holy One13 parallels

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Isaiah 37:24

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.

Isaiah 37:24 · BSB

thy servants4 parallels

Heb. the hand of they servants

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tall cedars thereof , and the choice fir trees thereof7 parallels

Heb. tallness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof

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or , and his fruitful field

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Isaiah 37:25

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Isaiah 37:25 · BSB

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besieged or , fenced and closed

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 37:26 · BSB

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long ago etc. or , how I have made it long ago , and formed it of ancient times , Should I now bring it to be laid waste , and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

Isaiah 37:27 · BSB

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of small power Heb. short of hand

Isaiah 37:28

But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

Isaiah 37:28 · BSB

I know6 parallels

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abode or sitting

Isaiah 37:29

Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’

Isaiah 37:29 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:30

And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 37:30 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:31

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Isaiah 37:31 · BSB

remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah4 parallels

Heb. escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth

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Isaiah 37:32

For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Isaiah 37:32 · BSB

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they that escape Heb. the escaping

Isaiah 37:33

So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

Isaiah 37:33 · BSB

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shields Heb. shield

Isaiah 37:34

He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.

Isaiah 37:34 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:35

‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Isaiah 37:35 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:36

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Isaiah 37:36 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Isaiah 37:37 · BSB

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Isaiah 37:38

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

Isaiah 37:38 · BSB

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Armenia2 parallels

Heb. Ararat

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Esar-haddon , called Asar-addinus in the Canon of Ptolemy , was the third son of Sennacherib; and having reigned twenty-nine years over the Assyrians , he took advantage of the anarchy and confusion which followed the death of Mesessimordacus , and seized upon Babylon; which he added to his former empire , and reigned over both for thirteen years; when he was succeeded by his son Saosduchinus , am 3336 , bc 668

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In the wider web5 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Echoes Acts 14:16 → Isaiah 37:14-20
Trajectories
Hezekiah (Faithful Reformer King)
Chiasms
Shaped Isaiah 36:1–37:7, Isaiah 37:22–38, Isaiah 37:8–22
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