2 Kings 19
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And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

the Lord.

Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is …

Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, …

Joshua 14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spoke in that …

1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and …

2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the …

whom the king.

2 Kings 18:17-35 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from …

reprove.

2 Kings 19:22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you …

1 Samuel 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and …

Psalm 50:21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that …

Psalm 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the …

lift up.

2 Chronicles 32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the …

Psalm 50:15 And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you …

Jeremiah 33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty …

Ezekiel 36:37 Thus said the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the …

Romans 9:27 Esaias also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children …

James 5:16,17 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that …

the remnant.

2 Kings 17:5,6 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went …

2 Kings 18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king …

2 Chronicles 28:5,6 Why the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; …

Isaiah 8:7,8 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the …

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …

left. Heb. found.

So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

when he heard. When Sennacherib had levied contributions on Hezekiah, he marched his army into Egypt; where, after several successes, he laid siege to Pelusium, and spent much time in it; but hearing that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, whom Strabo calls Therchon, was marching against him with a great army, to assist his kinsman Sevechus, or Sethon, the king of Egypt, he durst not abide his coming, but raised the siege; and returning to Judea, he encamped against Lachish, and afterwards against Libnah. But finding that Tirhakah pursued him as a fugitive, he marched back to encounter him; and having totally routed his army, he returned to wreak his vengeance on Hezekiah.

1 Samuel 23:27 But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; …

Isaiah 37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come …

sent.

2 Kings 18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from …

Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

prayed.

2 Samuel 7:18-28 Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who …

2 Chronicles 14:11 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing …

2 Chronicles 20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, are not you God in heaven? and …

2 Chronicles 32:20 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the …

Daniel 9:3,4 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, …

O Lord God.

Genesis 32:28 And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: …

Genesis 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

1 Kings 8:23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven …

1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would …

Isaiah 41:17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their …

dwellest.

Exodus 25:22 And there I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from …

1 Samuel 4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the …

2 Chronicles 5:7,8 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD to …

Psalm 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; …

Psalm 99:1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubim; …

thou art the God.

2 Kings 5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, …

1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they …

Isaiah 43:10 You are my witnesses, said the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: …

Isaiah 44:6 Thus said the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD …

Isaiah 45:22 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am …

Daniel 4:34,35 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes to …

thou hast made.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they …

Psalm 33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Psalm 102:25 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens …

Psalm 146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which …

Jeremiah 10:10-12 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting …

John 1:1-3:36 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the …

LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

The virgin.

Isaiah 23:12 And he said, You shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin, daughter …

Isaiah 37:21,22-35 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus said the …

Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit …

Jeremiah 14:17 Therefore you shall say this word to them; Let my eyes run down with …

Jeremiah 18:13 Therefore thus said the LORD; Ask you now among the heathen, who …

Jeremiah 31:4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: …

Lamentations 1:15 The LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the middle of …

Lamentations 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for you? what thing shall I liken …

Amos 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken …

the daughter.

Psalm 9:14 That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter …

Psalm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …

Isaiah 1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a …

Isaiah 23:10 Pass through your land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there …

Isaiah 47:5 Sit you silent, and get you into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: …

Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: …

Lamentations 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for you? what thing shall I liken …

Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …

Micah 4:8 And you, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of …

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: …

shaken her head.

Job 16:4 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, …

Psalm 22:7,8 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they …

Isaiah 37:22 This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin, …

Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …

Matthew 27:39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

I have digged, etc. I have conquered strange countries, and marched through the driest places, in which I have digged wells for my army.

with the sole. My infantry have been so numerous, that they alone have been sufficient to dry up all the rivers of besieged places, either by drinking them, or by diverting their course into other channels.

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …

2 Samuel 17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring …

1 Kings 20:10 And Benhadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also…

Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …

besieged places. or, fenced places.

Hast thou 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 thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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.
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

thy rage.

Psalm 2:1-5 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing…

Psalm 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage …

Psalm 10:13,14 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will …

Psalm 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, …

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their …

Luke 6:11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another …

John 15:18,23,24 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you…

Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …

thy tumult.

Psalm 65:7 Which stills the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and …

Psalm 74:4,23 Your enemies roar in the middle of your congregations; they set up …

Psalm 83:2 For, see, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have …

I will put. This alludes to the method by which the common people manage their beasts in the East, especially the dromedaries, which are governed by a bridle fastened to a ring, which runs through the nostril of the beast.

Job 41:2 Can you put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Psalm 32:9 Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: …

Ezekiel 29:4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your …

Ezekiel 38:4 And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will …

Amos 4:2 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, see, the days shall …

by the way.

2 Kings 19:33,36,37 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not …

And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
And it came to 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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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