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Isaiah 36:1-22
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 36:1-22
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Sennacherib's Insolent Message. (b. c. 710.)Isaiah 36:1-10 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleSENNACHERIB'S INSOLENT MESSAGE. (B. C. 710.) We shall here only observe some practical lessons. 1. A people may be in the way of their duty and yet meet with trouble and distress. Hezekiah was reforming, and his people…The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:1-22Isaiah 36:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryPART II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF EVENTS IN THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CH. 36-39.). SECTION I. SENNACHERIB'S ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE JUDAEA, AND HIS OVERTHROW (Isaiah 36:1-22; Isaiah 37:1-38.). EXPOSITION IF the Book of Isaiah be re…The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:1Isaiah 36:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryIt came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah. There is an irreconcilable difference between this note of time, in the passage as it stands, and the Assyrian inscriptions. The fourteenth year of Hezekiah was b…The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:1-22Isaiah 36:1-22 · The Pulpit CommentaryHezekiah and the Assyrian. The Assyrian king made a campaign against Judah, Lachish was taken, and the event was commemorated on bas-reliefs in Sennacherib's palace. The place commanded the direct road from Egypt to Jud…
commentarySennacherib's Insolent Message. (b. c. 710.)SENNACHERIB'S INSOLENT MESSAGE. (B. C. 710.) We shall here only observe some practical lessons. 1. A people may be in the way of their duty and yet meet with trouble and distress. Hezekiah was reforming, and his people…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:1It came to pass in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah. There is an irreconcilable difference between this note of time, in the passage as it stands, and the Assyrian inscriptions. The fourteenth year of Hezekiah was b…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:1-22Hezekiah and the Assyrian. The Assyrian king made a campaign against Judah, Lachish was taken, and the event was commemorated on bas-reliefs in Sennacherib's palace. The place commanded the direct road from Egypt to Jud…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:1-22PART II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF EVENTS IN THE REIGN OF HEZEKIAH (CH. 36-39.). SECTION I. SENNACHERIB'S ATTEMPTS TO REDUCE JUDAEA, AND HIS OVERTHROW (Isaiah 36:1-22; Isaiah 37:1-38.). EXPOSITION IF the Book of Isaiah be re…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:2Right attitude in times of threatening. This general of the Assyrian army seems to have been a rude, violent, boastful man, who thought to do his work by means of great swelling words. He was big in threatening; and it…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:2And the King of Assyria sent Rabshakeh … with a great army. It is inconceivable that, immediately after the grant of terms of peace and their acceptance, Sennacherib should have renewed the war; there must have been an…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:3Eliakim: Hilkiah's son (see above, Isaiah 22:20). Eliakim had now taken the place of the Shebna who was "over the house" when Isaiah prophesied his downfall (Isaiah 22:19) and Eliakim's advancement (Isaiah 22:21-23). Sh…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 36:4And Rabshakeh said. Of the three Assyrian envoys Rabshakeh alone obtains mention in Isaiah, probably because he was the spokesman. He was probably chosen for spokesman because he could speak Hebrew fluently (infra, vers…Joseph S. Exell and contributors