Isaiah 37:1-38

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:8-13

The Rabshakeh Sends Messengers to King Hezekiah (Isaiah 37:8-13 ). Isaiah 37:8 ‘So the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.’ Meanwhile the Rabshakeh had returned to the king of Assyria, finding him at Libnah. Whether this meant that Lachish had been subdued, or whether that siege continued while the one at Libnah was also going on we are not told. It is probably Isaiah’s way of indicating the surrender of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:14-20

King Hezekiah Seeks To Yahweh (Isaiah 37:14-20 ). Isaiah 37:14 ‘And Hezekiah received the message from the hand of the messengers and read it, and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh and spread it before Yahweh.’ Hezekiah was slowly learning what he must do. No longer did he call for ambassadors from other countries but took the message and spread it before God in the house of Yahweh. It was a direct appeal to Yahweh by the intercessory priest of the order of Melchizedek, who represented... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:21-35

Yahweh’s Reply Through Isaiah (Isaiah 37:21-35 ). Isaiah 37:21-22 ‘Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, In lieu of the fact that you have prayed to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head after you.’ ” ’ God’s reply to him came through Isaiah. It is Isaiah who is in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:26-29

Yahweh’s Reply. The King of Assyria Is But Yahweh’s Tool And Will Be Dealt With Accordingly (Isaiah 37:26-29 ). Yahweh’s reply to Sennacherib is to point out what He has accomplished in the past. He wants it to be clear that Assyria is not the only one that can cite prior victories, and that indeed Assyria are the new boys on the block. Isaiah 37:26-27 ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it about that you should be to lay waste... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:30-35

Yahweh’s Assurance of Deliverance to Jerusalem (Isaiah 37:30-35 ). At this point Isaiah turns his thoughts back to what Hezekiah really wants to know. What is about to happen to Jerusalem? Isaiah 37:30 ‘And this shall be the sign to you, you will eat this year what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that, and in the third year, sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.’ The sign that what he has described will come on Sennacherib is given by a promise of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:36-38

Yahweh Reveals His Omnipotence And His Promise Is Fulfilled (Isaiah 37:36-38 ). Having made His ‘boasts’ Yahweh now fulfils them, so much so that within one night the army of Assyria is decimated, and not by a human hand. Isaiah 37:36 ‘And the angel of Yahweh went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty five thousand, and when men arose in the morning they were all dead corpses.’ In response to Yahweh’s words the vast army of Assyria was decimated by the Angel of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 37:1-38

Isaiah 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19, and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal with the Song of Hezekiah. Isaiah 38:10-Proverbs : . Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Imminent Death.— This is now generally regarded as a post-exilic psalm. Its absence in the parallel narratine in Kings is significant. Apparently it was inserted here by an editor who thought it suitable to Hezekiah’... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 37:38

For the understanding of this, and the foregoing chapter, the reader is desired to consult my notes upon 2 Kings 18:1-20:21. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 37:1

A FOOLISH KING AND A WISE ONEIsaiah 37:1. And it came to pass, &c.The message to which our text refers was sent by a foolish king to a wise one. Look at them both.I. THE FOOLISH KING.Sennacherib. Ignorant of God, he fell into various follies. 1. Pride and arrogance. Unaware that he was but an instruments in the hand of God (chap. Isaiah 10:5-7), he imagined that his triumphs were due entirely to his military genius and the power under his control. Blind as to the true nature of his past... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 37:14

SPREADING THE LETTER BEFORE THE LORDIsaiah 37:14. And Hezekiah received the letter, &c.The letter was an insolent cartel of defiance from the Assyrian king Sennacherib, full as much of blasphemous defiance against God as of insolence to God’s servant. It represents the conflict between Assyria and Judah as being a struggle between the gods of one nation and the God of the other. The point of it is: “Don’t let the God in whom thou trusteth deceive thee, saying Jerusalem shall not be... read more

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