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2KI 19:1–19:7 ©

The questioning of Isikiyas to Isayas

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19:1 The questioning of Isikiyas to Isayas

(Isa. 37:1-7)

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19And_he/it_was when_heard the_king Ḩizqiyyāh and_tore DOM clothes_his and_covered in/on/at/with_sackcloth and_went_into the_house of_Yahweh.
2And_sent DOM ʼElyāqīm who [was]_over the_palace and_Shebna the_secretary and_DOM the_elders the_priests covered in/on/at/with_sackcloth to Yəshaˊyāh the_prophet the_son of_Amoz.
3And_they_said to_him/it thus he_says Ḩizqiyyāh [is]_a_day of_distress and_rebuke and_disgrace the_day the_this if/because they_have_come children to [the]_mouth_of_[the]_womb and_strength there_[is]_not to_deliver.
4Perhaps he_will_hear Yahweh god_your DOM all [the]_words of_[the]_Rab- shaqeh whom sent_him the_king of_Assyria master_his to_mock [the]_god living and_rebuke in/on/at/with_words which he_has_heard Yahweh god_your and_lift_up prayer for the_remnant the_left.
5And_they_came the_servants the_king Ḩizqiyyāh to Yəshaˊyāh.
6And_he/it_said to/for_them Yəshaˊyāh thus say to master_your_all’s thus he_says Yahweh do_not be_afraid from_face/in_front_of the_words which you_have_heard which they_have_blasphemed the_servants of_the_king of_Assyria DOM_me.
7Behold_I [am]_about_to_put in/on/over_him/it a_spirit and_hear a_report and_return to_land_his_own and_fall_him in/on/at/with_sword in/on/at/with_land_his_own.

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Sennacherib Attacks Judah

Isaiah 36-37; 2 Kings 18-19; 2 Chronicles 32

The harrowing experience of the attack on Judah by King Sennacherib of Assyria during Hezekiah’s reign is recorded by three different writers of Scripture and even by Sennacherib himself. Many scholars also suspect that this event formed the basis for Herodotus’s story regarding an army of mice eating the bow strings of the Assyrian army during their campaign against the Egyptians (Histories, 2.141). The origins of this event stretch back into the reign of Hezekiah’s father Ahaz, who enticed the Assyrians to attack Israel and Aram in exchange for making Judah a vassal of Assyria (2 Kings 16-17; 2 Chronicles 28; Isaiah 7-8; also see “The Final Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel” map). Judah continued to be a vassal of Assyria through the early part of Hezekiah’s reign, but Hezekiah also quietly made extensive preparations to throw off the yoke of Assyria one day (2 Kings 18:1-12; 1 Chronicles 4:39-43; 2 Chronicles 29-31; also see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Hezekiah also appears to have been hoping for support from Babylon and Egypt regarding his efforts to revolt against Assyria’s rule, but the prophet Isaiah warned Judah against placing their hopes in these foreign powers (Isaiah 30:1-5; 31:1-3; 39:1-8; 40:10-15; 2 Kings 20:12-19). After a few years spent quashing rebellion among the Babylonians, the Kassites, and the Medes in the east, Sennacherib turned his sights westward and began a campaign to subdue the various vassal nations that were refusing to submit to Assyria’s rule any longer. He first reconquered the Phoenician cities of Sidon and Tyre and then moved south to Philistia. He subdued Joppa, Beth-dagon, Bene-berak, and Azor and then moved to capture the cities of the Shephelah, which guarded the entrances to the valleys leading into the central hill country of Judah. While Sennacherib was attacking Lachish he sent his officers to demand Hezekiah’s surrender. This may be the Assyrian advance upon Jerusalem from the north described in Isaiah 10:28-32, but this is not certain (see “Assyria Advances on Jerusalem” map). Hezekiah sent officers back to Sennacherib with gold and silver taken from Temple and the royal treasury, but he would not surrender. The officers then traveled to Libnah to meet with Sennacherib, for he gone to fight there by that time. In the meantime King Tirhakah of Cush, who was ruling over Egypt at this time, came to attack Sennacherib, so Sennacherib sent his officials back to Hezekiah with a message that Jerusalem would be taken if he resisted. Hezekiah laid the letter from the officials before the Lord and prayed, and the Lord sent word through the prophet Isaiah that Jerusalem would not be taken. Then that very night the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers (probably those with Sennacherib fighting the Egyptians), and Sennacherib went back to Assyria. There while he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, Sennacherib’s sons killed him and fled to Ararat (see “Ararat” map).

2KI 19:1–19:7 ©

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