Isaiah 37:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations,d and their countries, ”

Isaiah 37:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of a truth - It is as he has said, that all the nations had been subjected to the arms of the Assyrian. He now intends to add Jerusalem to the number of vanquished cities and kingdoms, and to boa...
Isaiah 37:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and (m) their countries, (m) Meaning, the ten tribes.
Isaiah 37:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 36-39. This section has been extracted from 2 Kings 18:13 to 2 Kings 20:19 , and the Song of Hezekiah has been added. For an exposition see the notes on 2 K.; here we have simply to deal...
Isaiah 37:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

nations, and their countries. Hebrew. ha-arazoth... 'arzam : as in Isaiah 37:11 . The latter word put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the people inhabiting the lands. Note also...
Isaiah 37:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. and 19. Truly, O Jehovah. Here Hezekiah begins to distinguish between the false gods and the true God, which we also ought to do very carefully. Wicked men, who have no light, indulge i...
Isaiah 37:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, The nations - הארצות haratsoth, "the lands; "instead of this word, which destroys the sense, ten of Kennic...
Isaiah 37:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Have laid waste all the nations, &c.— This is literally in the Hebrew, All the lands and their land; but our translation undoubtedly gives the proper sense. See 2 Kings 19:17 .
Isaiah 37:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, Kings of Assyria have laid waste - conceding the truth of the Assyrian's allegation ( Isaiah 36:18...
Isaiah 37:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

7. Send.. him] RV 'put a spirit in him.'
Isaiah 37:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Of a truth, Lord... — The facts of Rabshakeh’s induction are admitted, but the inference denied, on the ground that the cases were not parallel. The gods of the nations had been cast into the fire...
Isaiah 37:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXVI HAD ISAIAH A GOSPEL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL? THE two narratives, in which Isaiah's career culminates-that of the Deliverance of Jerusalem Isaiah 36:1-22 ; Isaiah 37:1-38 and that of th...
Isaiah 37:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Penitently, went Hezekiah immediately into the house of the Lord, while he sent messengers to Isaiah. The prophet sent them back with words of encouragement, declaring that God would deliver them. In...
Isaiah 37:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Of a truth Lord ,.... This is a truth and will be readily owned what the king of Assyria has said that his ancestors have destroyed all lands, or at least have endeavoured to do it, and have had it...
Isaiah 37:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prayer of Hezekiah. B. C. 710. 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria...
Isaiah 37:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Isaiah 37:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

King Hezekiah Seeks To Yahweh ( Isaiah 37:14-20 ). Isaiah 37:14 ‘And Hezekiah received the message from the hand of the messengers and read it, and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh and s...
Isaiah 37:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

A KING’S PRAYER Isaiah 37:15-20 . And Hezekiah prayed, &c. I. Hezekiah prayed to Jehovah as the God of his nation . “O Lord God of Israel.” 1. The nation bore the name of one of its proge...
Isaiah 37:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 37:3 . This is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy. What moral idea can we form of a conqueror? A man hailed, adored, and applauded by the world. History is full of his fame,...
Isaiah 37:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

And Hezekiah received the letter. .. and read it. .. and spread it before the Lord Hezekiah’s prayer and deliverance In the struggles, defeats, and final triumph of the ancient people of God in...
Isaiah 37:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter is the sequel of the preceding, and is so closely connected with it that the two really constitute but one narrative. Isaiah 37:22 of Isaiah 36:1-23 . is more closely...
Isaiah 37:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Effect of Sennacherib's Boast upon Hezekiah
Isaiah 37:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Chronicles 5:26 ; 2 Kings 15:29 ; 2 Kings 16:9 ; 2 Kings 17:24 ; 2 Kings 17:6 ; Nahum 2:11 ; Nahum 2:12

Isaiah 37:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 37:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 37:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 37:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 37:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 37:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 37:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 37:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 37:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 37:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge