Isaiah 37:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

he heard. The "rumour" of Isaiah 37:7.

Tirhakah. The Taracus of the inscriptions. The third and last of Manetho's twenty-sixth dynasty. This reference to the Ethiopian dynasty in Isaiah's time is an "undesigned coincidence".

Ethiopia. Judah's hope in Ethiopia was vain (See Isaiah 20:1-6).

Isaiah 37:9

9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,