Isaiah 36
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Isaiah 36 is very similar to 2 Kings 18:17-37. Thus, please see the commentary on 2 Kings 18
Verse 1
WEB Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah, and captured them.
KJV Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
TSK it came: 2ki 18:13,17, 2ch 32:1; that Sennacherib: isa 1:7,8, isa 7:17, isa 8:7,8, isa 10:28-32, isa 33:7,8
Verse 2
WEB The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
KJV And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
TSK A. M. 3294. B.C. 710. sent: 2ki 18:17-37, 2ch 32:9-23; the conduit: isa 7:3, isa 22:9-11
Verse 3
WEB Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came out to him.
KJV Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
TSK Eliakim: isa 22:15-20; Shebna: 2sa 8:16,17, 2sa 20:24,25
Verse 4
WEB Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
KJV And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
TSK Thus saith: isa 10:8-14, isa 37:11-15, pr 16:18, eze 31:3-18, da 4:30, ac 12:22,23, jude 1:16; What: 2ki 18:5,19-37, 2ki 19:10, 2ch 32:7-10,14-16, ps 42:3,10, ps 71:10,11
Verse 5
WEB I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
KJV I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
TSK vain words: pr 21:30,31, pr 24:5,6; that: 2ki 18:7, 2ki 24:1, ne 2:19,20, jer 52:3, eze 17:15
Verse 6
WEB Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
KJV Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
TSK Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.: isa 20:5,6, isa 30:1-7, isa 31:3, 2ki 17:4, 2ki 18:21, jer 37:5-8, eze 29:6,7
Verse 7
WEB But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’”
KJV But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
TSK We trust: 2ki 18:5,22, 1ch 5:20, 2ch 16:7-9, 2ch 32:7,8, ps 22:4,5, ps 42:5,10,11; is it not: de 12:2-6,13,14, 2ki 18:4, 2ch 30:14, 2ch 31:1, 2ch 32:12, 1co 2:15
Verse 8
WEB Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
KJV Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
TSK pledges: 2ki 14:14; and I: isa 10:13,14, 1sa 17:40-43, 1ki 20:10,18, 2ki 18:23, ne 4:2-5, ps 20:7,8, ps 123:3,4
Verse 9
WEB How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
KJV How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
TSK the least: isa 10:8, 2ki 18:24; and put: isa 36:6, isa 30:16,17, de 17:16, pr 21:31, jer 2:36
Verse 10
WEB Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
KJV And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
TSK And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.: isa 10:5-7, isa 37:28, 1ki 13:18, 2ki 18:25, 2ch 35:21, am 3:6
Verse 11
WEB Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
KJV Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it; and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
TSK in the Syrian: 2ki 18:26,27, ezr 4:7, da 2:4
Verse 12
WEB But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
KJV But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
TSK that they may: isa 9:20, le 26:29, de 28:53-57, 2ki 6:25-29, 2ki 18:27, jer 19:9, la 4:9,10, eze 4:16
Verse 13
WEB Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
KJV Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
TSK cried: 1sa 17:8-11, 2ki 18:28-32, 2ch 32:18, ps 17:10-13, ps 73:8,9, ps 82:6,7; Hear: isa 36:4, isa 8:7, isa 10:8-13, eze 31:3-10, da 4:37
Verse 14
WEB Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
KJV Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
TSK Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.: isa 37:10-13, 2ki 19:10-13,22, 2ch 32:11,13-19, da 3:15-17, da 6:20, da 7:25, 2th 2:4, re 13:5,6
Verse 15
WEB Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
KJV Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
TSK Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.: isa 36:7, isa 37:23,24, ps 4:2, ps 22:7,8, ps 71:9-11, mt 27:43
Verse 16
WEB Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
KJV Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
TSK Make an agreement with me by a present: ge 32:20, ge 33:11, 1sa 25:27, 2sa 8:6, 2ki 5:15, 2ki 18:31, 2co 9:5; come out: 1sa 11:3, 2ki 24:12-16; eat ye: 1ki 4:20,25, mic 4:4, zec 3:10
Verse 17
WEB until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
KJV Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
TSK I come: 2ki 17:6-23, 2ki 18:9-12, 2ki 24:11, pr 12:10; a land of corn: ex 3:8, de 8:7-9, de 11:12, job 20:17
Verse 18
WEB Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
KJV Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
TSK lest: isa 36:7,10,15, isa 37:10, ps 12:4, ps 92:5-7; Hath: isa 37:12,13,17,18, 2ki 18:33-35, 2ki 19:12,13,17,18, 2ch 32:13-17, ps 115:2-8, ps 135:5,6,15-18, jer 10:3-5,10-12, da 3:15, hab 2:19,20
Verse 19
WEB Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
KJV Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
TSK Hamath: nu 34:8, 2sa 8:9; Arphad: isa 10:9, jer 49:23; Sepharvaim: 2ki 17:24; and have: isa 10:10,11, 2ki 17:5-7, 2ki 18:10-12
Verse 20
WEB Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
KJV Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
TSK that the Lord: isa 37:18,19,23-29, isa 45:16,17, ex 5:2, 2ki 19:22-37, 2ch 32:15,19, job 15:25,26, job 40:9-12, ps 50:21, ps 73:9, da 3:15
Verse 21
WEB But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
KJV But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
TSK But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.: 2ki 18:26,37, ps 38:13-15, ps 39:1, pr 9:7, pr 26:4, am 5:13, mt 7:6
Verse 22
WEB Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
KJV Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
TSK Eliakim: isa 36:3,11; with their: isa 33:7, isa 37:1,2, 2ki 5:7, ezr 9:3, mt 26:65