Isaiah 37:30-38 NIV

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:1-38

7. Send.. him] RV ’put a spirit in him.’22. Virgin] the figure as in Isaiah 23:12.24. Sides] RV ’innermost parts.’ The height.. Carmel] RV ’his farthest height, the forest of his fruitful field.’25. Digged] Deserts cannot impede his march, for he digs wells there. Have I dried, etc.] RV ’will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt’: the Assyrian boasts that he will pass on to conquer Egypt. 26. Jehovah is here the speaker. Done.. formed it] Referring to the ordering of events in the divine... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:30

(30) And this shall be a sign unto thee.—The prophet now turns to Hezekiah, and offers, as was his wont (Isaiah 7:11; Isaiah 38:8), a sign within the horizon of the nearer future as the pledge of the fulfilment of a prediction which had a wider range. It was then autumn, probably near the equinox, which was the beginning of a new year. The Assyrian invasion had stopped all tillage in the previous spring, and the people had to rely upon the spontaneous products of the fields. In the year that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:31

(31) And the remnant that is escaped.—We note the “remnant” of the familiar formula of Isaiah’s earlier days. The name of Shear-jashub had not ceased to be an omen of good (Isaiah 7:3). And that remnant should be as the scion from which should spring in due course the goodly tree of the future (Isaiah 6:13). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:32

(32) The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.—Here, again, the prophet returns in his old age to the formula of the earlier days of Isaiah 9:7, with an implied reference to the grand promise with which it had then been associated. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:33

(33) Nor come before it with shields.—The clause points to the two forms of attack: (1) the invaders marching to the assault, protected by their serried shields against the darts and stones which were flung by hand or from engines by the besieged; and (2) the earthworks which were piled up to make the attack on the walls more feasible. (Comp. Habakkuk 1:10; Ezekiel 4:2.) Isaiah’s prediction is not only that Jerusalem will not be taken, but that the enemy, though now encamped around it, will not... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:35

(35) For mine own sake . . .—The words set forth, as it were, the two motives of Jehovah’s action: “for His own sake,” as asserting His majesty against the blasphemy of the Assyrians; for “David’s sake,” as mindful of the promise made to him, showing, in the spirit of the second commandment, that the good as well as the evil influences of men survive, and that a later generation may profit by the good that was in its predecessor, as well as suffer for its guilt. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:36

(36) Then the angel of the Lord.—The words do not exclude—rather, as interpreted by 1 Chronicles 21:14, they imply—the action of some form of epidemic disease, dysentery or the plague, such as has not seldom turned the fortunes of a campaign, spreading, it may be, for some days, and then, aggravated by atmospheric conditions, such as the thunderstorm implied in Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:27-30, culminating in one night of horror. History, as written from the modern stand-point, would dwell on the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:37

(37) So Sennacherib . . .—We have to remember that the Assyrian king had been engaged in the siege of Libnah, probably also in an Egyptian expedition, which from some cause or other was unsuccessful. The course of events was probably this: that in Egypt he heard of the ravages of the pestilence, returned to find his army too weak to fight, and then, abandoning all further action in the south, withdrew to Nineveh.Departed, and went and returned.—We are reminded by the three synonyms of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:38

(38) And it came to pass.—The Assyrian inscriptions fill up the gap of twenty years between the events which appear here, as if in immediate sequence, with five campaigns in the north and east of the Assyrian Empire, chiefly against the Babylonians, who revolted again under the son of Merôdach-baladan.Nisroch.—Some experts (Oppert and Schrader) have found the name in the Khorsabad inscriptions, in a prayer of Sargon to Nisroch as the patron of marriage, but the identification is disputed by... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-38

CHAPTER XXVIHAD ISAIAH A GOSPEL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL?THE two narratives, in which Isaiah’s career culminates-that of the Deliverance of Jerusalem {Isaiah 36:1-22; Isaiah 37:1-38} and that of the Recovery of Hezekiah {Isaiah 38:1-22; Isaiah 39:1-8}-cannot fail, coming together as they do, to suggest to thoughtful readers a striking contrast between Isaiah’s treatment of the community and his treatment of the individual, between his treatment of the Church and his treatment of single members. For... read more

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:1-38

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:30

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:31

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:33

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:35

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:36

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:37

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 37:38

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 37:1-38

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