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Isaiah
Chapter
37
{Parallel
Passage Now with II Kings 19 Continues -
God
delivers them}
1
And it came to pass,
when
king Hezekiah heard it,
that
he tore/rent his clothes,
and
covered himself with sackcloth,
and
went into the house of Jehovah/God.
2
And he sent Eliakim,
who
was over the household,
and
Shebna the scribe,
and
the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth,
unto
Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3
And they said unto him,
"Thus
said Hezekiah,
'This
day is a day of trouble,
and
of rebuke, and of blasphemy . . .
for
the children are come to the birth,
and
there is not strength to bring forth.
4``
It may be Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead
will
'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`}
the
words {dabar} of Rabshakeh,
whom
the king of Assyria, his master,
has
sent to reproach the living 'Elohiym/Godhead,
and
will reprove the words {dabar}
which
Jehovah/God your 'Elohiym/Godhead has heard.
Therefore
lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6
And Isaiah said unto them,
"Thus
shall you say unto your master,
'Thus
said Jehovah/God,
Be
not afraid of the words {dabar}
that
you have heard,
wherewith
the servants of the king of Assyria
have
blasphemed Me.
7
Behold, I will send a blast upon him,
and
he shall hear a rumor,
and
return to his own land;
and
I will cause him to fall by the sword
in
his own land.
8
So Rabshakeh returned,
and
found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah . . .
for
he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9
And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia,
He
is come forth to make war with you.
And
when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10
"Thus
shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
'Let
not your 'Elohiym/Godhead,
in
whom you trust, deceive you, saying,
Jerusalem
shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11
Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria
have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly;
and
shall you be delivered?
12
Have the gods/'elohiym of the nations delivered them
which
my fathers have destroyed,
as
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,
and
the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13
Where is the king of Hamath,
and
the king of Arphad,
and
the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it.
And
Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah/God,
and
spread it before Jehovah/God.
15
And Hezekiah prayed unto Jehovah/God, saying, 16
"O
Jehovah/God of armies/hosts,
'Elohiym/Godhead
of Israel,
Who
dwells between the cherubim,
You
are the 'Elohiym/Godhead, even You alone,
of
all the kingdoms of the earth.
You have made heaven and earth.
17
Incline yours ear, O Jehovah/God,
and
hear; open yours eyes, O Jehovah/God, and see . . .
and
hear all the words {dabar} of Sennacherib,
which
has sent to reproach the living 'Elohiym/Godhead.
18
Of a truth, Jehovah/God,
the
kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations,
and
their countries, 19
and
have cast their gods/'elohiym into the fire . . .
for
they were no gods/'elohiym,
but
the work of men's hands . . . wood and stone . . .
therefore
they have destroyed them.
20
Now therefore, O Jehovah/God our 'Elohiym/Godhead,
deliver
us from his hand,
that
all the kingdoms of the earth
may
know that You are Jehovah/God . . . even You only.
21
Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent unto Hezekiah, saying,
"Thus
said Jehovah/God 'Elohiym/Godhead of Israel,
'Whereas
you have prayed to Me
against
Sennacherib king of Assyria 22
This
is the word which Jehovah/God has spoken concerning him . . .
The
virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you,
and
laughed you to scorn;
the
daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And
against whom have you exalted your voice,
and
lifted up yours eyes on high?
Even against the Holy One of Israel.
24
By your servants have you reproached the Lord/'Adonay,
and
have said,
'By
the multitude of my chariots
am
I come up to the height of the mountains,
to
the sides of Lebanon;
and
I will cut down the tall cedars thereof,
and
the choice fir trees thereof:
and
I will enter into the height of his border,
and
the forest of his Carmel.
25
I have dug, and drunk water;
and
with the sole of my feet
have
I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
26
Have you not heard long ago,
how
I have done it;
and
of ancient times,
that
I have formed it?
Now
have I brought it to pass,
that
you should be to lay waste
defensed
cities into ruinous heaps.
27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power,
they
were dismayed and confounded.
They
were as the grass of the field,
and
as the green herb,
as
the grass on the housetops,
and
as corn blasted before it be grown up.
28
But I know your abode,
and
your going out, and your coming in,
and
your rage against Me.
29
Because your rage is against Me,
and
your tumult is come up into My ears,
therefore
will I put my hook in your nose,
and
my bridle in your lips,
and
I will turn you back
by
the way by which you came.
30
And this shall be a sign unto you,
You
shall eat this year such as grows of itself;
and
the second year that which springs of the same
and
in the third year sow you, and reap,
and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
31
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
32
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant,
and
they that escape out of mount Zion.
The zeal of the Jehovah/God of armies/hosts shall do this.
33
Therefore thus said the Jehovah/God
concerning
the king of Assyria,
He
shall not come into this city,
nor
shoot an arrow there,
nor
come before it with shields,
nor
cast a bank against it.
34
By the way that he came,
by
the same shall he return,
and
shall not come into this city,
said
the Jehovah/God.
35
For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake,
and
for My servant David's sake.
{Angel
of the Lord Kills 185,000 of the Assyrian Army}
36~~Then
{the next day after the speech in previous chapter
by the Rabshakeh}
the
angel of the Jehovah/God went forth,
and
smote in the camp of the Assyrians
a
hundred and fourscore and five thousand
{the angel of the Lord is a title for Jesus Christ - He killed 185,000
Assyrians}
and
when they arose early in the morning,
behold
. . . they were all dead corpses.
37~~So
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed,
and
went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
{he stayed where he knew he was safe}
38~~And
it came to pass {20 years pass},
as
he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god,
that
Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons,
smote
him with the sword;
and
they escaped into the land of Armenia.
And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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