
Text -- 2 Kings 19:15 (NET)




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Wesley -> 2Ki 19:15
Wesley: 2Ki 19:15 - -- _He calls him the God of Israel, because Israel was his peculiar people; but yet the God of the whole earth, not as Sennacherib fancied, the God of Is...
_He calls him the God of Israel, because Israel was his peculiar people; but yet the God of the whole earth, not as Sennacherib fancied, the God of Israel only. Let them say what they will, thou art sovereign Lord, the God of gods, even thou alone: Universal Lord of all the kingdoms of the earth; and rightful Lord; for thou hast made heaven and earth. Being creator of all, by an incontestable title thou art owner and ruler of all.
JFB -> 2Ki 19:14-19
JFB: 2Ki 19:14-19 - -- Hezekiah, after reading it, hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of faith before the Lord, as containing taunts deeply affe...
Hezekiah, after reading it, hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of faith before the Lord, as containing taunts deeply affecting the divine honor, and implored deliverance from this proud defier of God and man. The devout spirit of this prayer, the recognition of the Divine Being in the plenitude of His majesty--so strikingly contrasted with the fancy of the Assyrians as to His merely local power; his acknowledgment of the conquests obtained over other lands; and of the destruction of their wooden idols which, according to the Assyrian practice, were committed to the flames--because their tutelary deities were no gods; and the object for which he supplicated the divine interposition--that all the kingdoms of the earth might know that the Lord was the only God--this was an attitude worthy to be assumed by a pious theocratic king of the chosen people.
Clarke -> 2Ki 19:15
Clarke: 2Ki 19:15 - -- Thou art the God, etc. - Thou art not only God of Israel, but God also of Assyria, and of all the nations of the world.
Thou art the God, etc. - Thou art not only God of Israel, but God also of Assyria, and of all the nations of the world.
Defender: 2Ki 19:15 - -- The cherubims at Eden's gate (Gen 3:24) and their replicas over the mercy-seat in the tabernacle (Heb 9:5) indicated the presence of God as He came to...

Defender: 2Ki 19:15 - -- Despite the insulting blasphemies of Rabshakeh, insinuating that Jehovah was only one "god" among the many "gods" of the heathen, Hezekiah realized th...
Despite the insulting blasphemies of Rabshakeh, insinuating that Jehovah was only one "god" among the many "gods" of the heathen, Hezekiah realized that He is the very Creator of the universe."
TSK -> 2Ki 19:15
TSK: 2Ki 19:15 - -- prayed : 2Sa 7:18-28; 2Ch 14:11, 2Ch 20:6, 2Ch 32:20; Dan 9:3, Dan 9:4
O Lord God : Gen 32:28, Gen 33:20; 1Ki 8:23; 1Ch 4:10; Isa 41:17
dwellest : Exo...
prayed : 2Sa 7:18-28; 2Ch 14:11, 2Ch 20:6, 2Ch 32:20; Dan 9:3, Dan 9:4
O Lord God : Gen 32:28, Gen 33:20; 1Ki 8:23; 1Ch 4:10; Isa 41:17
dwellest : Exo 25:22; 1Sa 4:4; 2Ch 5:7, 2Ch 5:8; Psa 80:1, Psa 99:1
thou art the God : 2Ki 5:15; 1Ki 18:39; Isa 43:10, Isa 44:6, Isa 44:8, Isa 45:22; Dan 4:34, Dan 4:35
thou hast made : Gen 1:1, Gen 2:4; Psa 33:9, Psa 102:25, Psa 146:6; Jer 10:10-12; John 1:1-3:36

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Barnes -> 2Ki 19:15
Barnes: 2Ki 19:15 - -- Which dwellest between the cherubims - The reference is to the shechinah, or miraculous glory, which from time to time appeared above the mercy...
Which dwellest between the cherubims - The reference is to the shechinah, or miraculous glory, which from time to time appeared above the mercy-seat from between the two cherubims, whose wings overshadowed the ark of the covenant (1Ki 6:23-27; compare Exo 25:22; Lev 16:2, etc.).
Thou art the God, even thou alone - This is the protest of the pure theist against the intense polytheism of Sennacherib’ s letter, which assumes that gods are only gods of particular nations, and that Hezekiah’ s God is but one out of an indefinite number, no stronger or more formidable than the rest.
Haydock -> 2Ki 19:15
Haydock: 2Ki 19:15 - -- Earth. He attempts to make some reparation for the blasphemies which had been uttered (Calmet) and written. (Haydock)
Earth. He attempts to make some reparation for the blasphemies which had been uttered (Calmet) and written. (Haydock)
Gill -> 2Ki 19:1-37
Gill: 2Ki 19:1-37 - -- And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it,.... The report of Rabshakeh's speech, recorded in the preceding chapter:
that he rent his clothes...
And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it,.... The report of Rabshakeh's speech, recorded in the preceding chapter:
that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth; rent his clothes because of the blasphemy in the speech; and he put on sackcloth, in token of mourning, for the calamities he feared were coming on him and his people: and he went into the house of the Lord; the temple, to pray unto him. The message he sent to Isaiah, with his answer, and the threatening letter of the king of Assyria, Hezekiah's prayer upon it, and the encouraging answer he had from the Lord, with the account of the destruction of the Assyrian army, and the death of Sennacherib, are the same "verbatim" as in Isa 37:1 throughout; and therefore the reader is referred thither for the exposition of them; only would add what Rauwolff t observes, that still to this day (1575) there are two great holes to be seen, wherein they flung the dead bodies (of the Assyrian army), one whereof is close by the road towards Bethlehem, the other towards the right hand against old Bethel.

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TSK Synopsis -> 2Ki 19:1-37
TSK Synopsis: 2Ki 19:1-37 - --1 Hezekiah mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them.6 Isaiah comforts them.8 Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to...
MHCC -> 2Ki 19:8-19
MHCC: 2Ki 19:8-19 - --Prayer is the never-failing resource of the tempted Christian, whether struggling with outward difficulties or inward foes. At the mercy-seat of his a...
Matthew Henry -> 2Ki 19:8-19
Matthew Henry: 2Ki 19:8-19 - -- Rabshakeh, having delivered his message and received no answer (whether he took this silence for a consent or a slight does not appear), left his ar...
Keil-Delitzsch -> 2Ki 19:14-19
Keil-Delitzsch: 2Ki 19:14-19 - --
Hezekiah's prayer. - 2Ki 19:14. Hezekiah took the letter, read it, went into the temple and spread it out before Jehovah, to lay open its contents ...
Constable: 2Ki 18:1--25:30 - --III. THE SURVIVING KINGDOM chs. 18--25
In this third major section of 1 and 2 Kings the writer showed that the c...

Constable: 2Ki 18:1--20:21 - --A. Hezekiah's Good Reign chs. 18-20
The writer of Kings devoted more attention to Hezekiah than to any H...
