Isaiah 37:30-38 NIV

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:36

Isaiah 37:36. Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote— Sennacherib, flushed with his victories, and breathing destruction against the kingdom of Judah, which had withdrawn its allegiance from him, in his opprobrious message to Hezekiah and his subjects, not only inveighed against them, but blasphemously reviled even their God, bringing down the great God of Israel to the contemptible level of the gods of the nations; putting him to open defiance, and charging him with impotence to his... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:38

Isaiah 37:38. The house of Nisroch his god— This was probably the tutelary deity of that country, who might originally have been their king or legislator, and might have been deified, as the custom was, to preserve the veneration of his laws, or the memory of his services to the state. The LXX has it u925?ασαραχ τον πατραρχον αυτου . The significations ascribed to the word Nisroch are various. Some imagine that it signifies a ship; and in the Egyptian tropical hieroglyphics we find that a ship... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:30

30. Addressed to Hezekiah. sign—a token which, when fulfilled, would assure him of the truth of the whole prophecy as to the enemy's overthrow. The two years, in which they were sustained by the spontaneous growth of the earth, were the two in which Judea had been already ravaged by Sennacherib ( :-). Thus translate: "Ye did eat (the first year) such as groweth of itself, and in the second year that . . . but in this third year sow ye," c., for in this year the land shall be delivered from the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:31

31. remnant—Judah remained after the ten tribes were carried away; also those of Judah who should survive Sennacherib's invasion are meant. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:33

33. with shields—He did come near it, but was not allowed to conduct a proper siege. bank—a mound to defend the assailants in attacking the walls. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:34

34. (See Isaiah 37:29; Isaiah 37:37; Isaiah 29:5-8). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:35

35. I will defend—Notwithstanding Hezekiah's measures of defense ( :-), Jehovah was its true defender. mine own sake—since Jehovah's name was blasphemed by Sennacherib ( :-). David's sake—on account of His promise to David (Psalms 132:17; Psalms 132:18), and to Messiah, the heir of David's throne (Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 11:1). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:36

36. Some attribute the destruction to the agency of the plague (see on :-), which may have caused Hezekiah's sickness, narrated immediately after; but Isaiah 33:1; Isaiah 33:4, proves that the Jews spoiled the corpses, which they would not have dared to do, had there been on them infection of a plague. The secondary agency seems, from Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:30, to have been a storm of hail, thunder, and lightning (compare Isaiah 30:30- :). The simoon belongs rather to Africa and Arabia than... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:37

37. dwelt at Nineveh—for about twenty years after his disaster, according to the inscriptions. The word, "dwelt," is consistent with any indefinite length of time. "Nineveh," so called from Ninus, that is, Nimrod, its founder; his name means "exceedingly impious rebel"; he subverted the existing patriarchal order of society, by setting up a system of chieftainship, founded on conquest; the hunting field was his training school for war; he was of the race of Ham, and transgressed the limits... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:38

38. Nisroch—Nisr, in Semitic, means "eagle;" the termination och, means "great." The eagle-headed human figure in Assyrian sculptures is no doubt Nisroch, the same as Asshur, the chief Assyrian god; the corresponding goddess was Asheera, or Astarte; this means a "grove," or sacred tree, often found as the symbol of the heavenly hosts (Saba) in the sculptures, as Asshur the Eponymus hero of Assyria ( :-) answered to the sun or Baal, Belus, the title of office, "Lord." This explains "image of the... read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:36

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:38

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:30

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:31

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:33

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:34

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:35

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:36

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:37

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 37:38

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