Isaiah 37:25

rivers. arms, or canals. Compare Isaiah 19:6, and Micah 7:12.

besieged places. Hebrew. matzor. Put for Egypt.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 37:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have digged - That is, I have digged wells. This was regarded among eastern nations as an important achievement. It was difficult to find water...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I have dug, (q) and drank water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. (q) He boasts of his policy in...
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 s...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

25. I shall dig and drink water. The tyrant still goes on to boast of his strength, and threatens that e will bring so powerful an army that...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. Water "Strange waters" - The word...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By the multitude of my chariots— Cities, in the prophetical writings, are metaphorically represented by woods or forests, especially those of Leba...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. I have digged, and drunk...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

7. Send.. him] RV 'put a spirit in him.'
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Digged ] Deserts cannot impede his march, for he digs wells there. Have I dried, etc.] RV 'will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt': the Assyrian bo...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I have digged, and drunk water... — This, again, was one of the common boasts of the Assyrian conquerors. It was Sennacherib’s special glory, as re...
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...
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 encour...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have digged, and drunk water ,.... In places where he came, and found no water for his army, he set his soldiers to work, to dig cisterns, as the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sennacherib Threatened; Sennacherib Destroyed. B. C. 710....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh's Reply Through Isaiah ( Isaiah 37:21-35 ). Isaiah 37:21-22 ‘Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh the...
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 app...
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,...
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. I...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 20:10 ; 2 Kings 19:23 ; 2 Kings 19:24 ; Isaiah 36:12

²⁵ I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 37:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 37:25