2 Kings 16:20
buried <06912> [A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. buried.]
Hezekiah <02396> [Hezekiah.]
[Ezekias.]
2 Kings 18:1--20:21
third <07969> [A.M. 3278. B.C. 726. in the third.]
Hezekiah <02396> [Hezekiah.]
[Ezekias.]
twenty-five years old .......... twenty-nine years <06242 02568 08141 01121> [Twenty and five years old.]
As Ahaz was 20 years old when he began to reign, and died when he had reigned 16 years, his whole age only amounted to 36 years; and as Hezekiah was, at least, entering on his 25th year when he began to reign, then Ahaz must have been under 12 years of age when his son was born! This is not at all impossible: and there are well-attested facts of men having children at as early a period, especially in eastern countries.
Abi <021> [A.M. 3278-3306. B.C. 726-698. Abi.]
[Abijah.]
approved <05869 03477> [right in the sight.]
David <01732> [according.]
eliminated <05493> [removed.]
smashed ............... demolished <07665 03807> [brake.]
sacred pillars <04676> [images. Heb. statues. the brasen serpent.]
time <03117> [unto those days.]
Nehushtan <05180> [Nehushtan.]
That is, a piece of brass.
trusted <0982> [trusted.]
kings ....... after <0310 04428> [after him.]
loyal <01692> [he clave.]
None of the kings of Judah, from the time of the division of the kingdom, equalled Hezekiah in the stedfastness and simplicity of his dependence upon the Lord; in which he aspired to an equality with his progenitor David, who had reigned over the whole land. Even Asa, through weakness of faith, sought the assistance of a heathen prince; and Jehoshaphat formed an alliance with idolatrous Ahab; but Hezekiah clave to the Lord, in entire confidence and unreserved obedience, to the end of his life.
him ... obeyed <0310 08104> [from following him. Heb. from after him. kept.]
Lord <03068> [And the Lord.]
endeavors <07919> [he prospered.]
rebelled <04775> [rebelled.]
Philistines <06430> [the Philistines.]
Gaza <05804> [Gaza. Heb. Azzah. from the tower.]
fourth year .......... year <08141 07243> [A.M. 3281. B.C. 723. the fourth year.]
Shalmaneser <08022> [Shalmaneser.]
[Shalman.]
captured ..... sixth .................. captured <03920 08337> [A.M. 3283. B.C. 721. they took it.]
king <04428> [the king.]
Halah <02477> [Halah.]
It is thought, with much probability, that Halah, or Chalach, is Ptolemy's Calachene, the northern part of Assyria; that Habor, or Chabor, is the mountain or mountainous country, between Media and Assyria, called by Ptolemy, [Chaboras,] Chaboras; and that Gozan is Gauzanitis of Ptolemy, situated between that mountain and the Caspian sea, and between the two channels of the river Cyrus.
obey ............... pay attention <08085 06963> [they obeyed not.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
fourteenth <0702> [A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. the fourteenth.]
Sennacherib <05576> [Sennacherib. Heb. Sanherib. come up.]
have violated <02398> [I have offended.]
doors <01817> [gold.]
King ............................. king <04428> [it. Heb. them.]
king .................. King <04428> [A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. the king.]
general <08661> [Tartan.]
Calmet remarks, that these are not the names of persons, but of offices: {Tartan} signifies "he who presides over gifts or tribute;" {Rabsaris,} "the chief of the eunuchs;" and {Rabshakeh,} "the chief cup-bearer."
large <03515> [great. Heb. heavy. the conduit of the upper pool.]
If the Fuller's field were near En-Rogel, or the Fuller's fountain, east of Jerusalem, as is generally supposed, then the conduit of the upper pool may been an aqueduct that brought the water from the upper or eastern reservoir of that fountain, which had been seized in order to distress the city.
Eliakim <0471> [Eliakim.]
Shebna <07644> [Shebna.]
scribe <05608> [the scribe. or, secretary.]
secretary <02142> [the recorder.]
chief adviser <07262> [Rab-shakeh.]
He was the chief speaker, being a very eloquent man, and, according to the Hebrews, whom Procopius follows, an apostate Jew; which is not improbable, as he spoke Hebrew so fluently; and when he blasphemed the Divine Majesty, the king and nobles rent their clothes, which was usual unless the blasphemer were an Israelite.
said .... Tell <0559> [Thus saith.]
confidence <0986> [What confidence.]
claim <0559> [sayest. or, talkest. vain words. Heb. word of the lips. I have counsel and strength for the war. or, but counsel and strength are for the war.]
rebel <04775> [rebellest.]
trusting .................................. trust <0982> [trustest. Heb. trustest thee. the staff.]
Egypt ........................... Egypt <04714> [upon Egypt.]
Pharaoh <06547> [so is Pharaoh.]
trusting <0982> [We trust.]
high places <01116> [whose high places.]
deal <06148> [pledges. Heb. hostages.]
give <05414> [I will deliver.]
refuse <07725> [How then.]
trust <0982> [thy trust.]
chariots <07393> [chariots.]
marched up ............ March up <05927> [Am I now.]
Speak ............ speak <01696> [Speak.]
Perceiving that the object of this blasphemous caitiff was to stir up the people to sedition, they mildly and reasonably required him to make his proposals in the Syrian language.
Aramaic <0762> [in the Syrian language.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
<04325> [their own piss. Heb. the water of their feet.]
chief adviser <07262> [Rab-shakeh.]
king ... king ... Assyria <04428 0804> [the king of Assyria.]
says <0559> [saith.]
Hezekiah <02396> [Let not.]
trusting <0982> [make you.]
city <05892> [this city.]
Send .... token of your submission <06213 01293> [Make an agreement with me. or, Seek my favour. Heb. Make with me a blessing.]
each ..... eat .... own ........... own <0398 0376> [eat ye.]
cistern <0953> [cistern. or, pit.]
come <0935> [I come.]
land ....... land ........ land ....... land <0776> [like your own.]
misleading <05496> [persuadeth. or, deceiveth.]
actually <0376> [Hath any.]
gods ......... gods <0430> [the gods.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
Hamath, there is little doubt, was the Epiphania of the Greeks, as Josephus, Theodoret, and Jerome, expressly assert. It was a celebrated city of Syria, situated on the Orontes, and the present Hamah doubtless occupies its site; as Abulfeda, who was prince or emir of Hamah about A.D. 1345, expressly states, in his Description of Syria, that Hamah is an ancient city mentioned in the writings of the Israelites. It is still a considerable town, situated on both sides of the Orontes, about three days' journey and a half from Tripoli; and must contain, Burckhardt says, at least 30,000 inhabitants.
Arpad <0774> [Arpad.]
Arpad is probably the town of Arphas, mentioned by Josephus as limiting the province of Gamalitis, Gaulanitis, Batanea, and Trachonitis, to the N. E.; and the Raphan, or Raphanea, which Stephanus places near Epiphania.
gods ......... gods <0430> [the gods.]
[Ava.]
rescue <05337> [have they delivered.]
gods <0430> [Who are.]
Lord <03068> [that the Lord.]
silent <02790> [held their peace.]
clothes torn <0899 07167> [with their clothes rent.]
King <04428> [when king.]
tore <07167> [he rent.]
<03680> [covered.]
went ..... temple <0935 01004> [went into.]
sent Eliakim <0471 07971> [he sent Eliakim.]
Isaiah <03470> [to Isaiah.]
[Esaias. the son of Amoz.]
day ........ when <03117> [This day.]
humiliation <05007> [blasphemy. or, provocation.]
baby <01121> [for the children.]
Lord ................................. Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
king <04428> [whom the king.]
punish <03198> [reprove.]
perhaps <05375> [lift up.]
remnant <07611> [the remnant.]
remains <04672> [left. Heb. found.]
Isaiah <03470> [Isaiah.]
afraid <03372> [Be not afraid.]
servants <05288> [the servants.]
mind <07307> [a blast.]
receive ... report <08052 08085> [hear a rumour.]
cut ... down <05307> [I will cause.]
Libnah <03841> [Libnah.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
heard <08085> [when he heard.]
When Sennacherib had levied contributions on Hezekiah, he marched his army into Egypt; where, after several successes, he laid siege to Pelusium, and spent much time in it; but hearing that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, whom Strabo calls Therchon, was marching against him with a great army, to assist his kinsman Sevechus, or Sethon, the king of Egypt, he durst not abide his coming, but raised the siege; and returning to Judea, he encamped against Lachish, and afterwards against Libnah. But finding that Tirhakah pursued him as a fugitive, he marched back to encounter him; and having totally routed his army, he returned to wreak his vengeance on Hezekiah.
sent <07971> [sent.]
gods <0430> [Have the gods.]
Gozan <01470> [Gozan.]
Haran <02771> [Haran.]
[Charran. Rezeph.]
Rezeph was probably either Rezapha, which Ptolemy places in the Palmyrene, west of the Euphrates; or rather, Rezipha, in Mesopotamia, east of the Euphrates.
Eden <05729> [Eden.]
[Telassar.]
king ..... king ...... king <04428> [the king.]
Arpad <0774> [Arpad.]
[Arphad.]
Hezekiah ............ Hezekiah <02396> [Hezekiah.]
spread .... before <06566 06440> [spread it.]
prayed <06419> [prayed.]
Lord Lord God ............. God <03068 0430> [O Lord God.]
who ... enthroned <03427> [dwellest.]
God ............. God <0430> [thou art the God.]
made <06213> [thou hast made.]
Pay <05186> [bow down.]
Open <06491> [open.]
sent <07971> [which hath sent.]
true <0551> [Of a truth.]
kings <04428> [the kings.]
burned <05414> [have cast. Heb. have given.]
gods .......... gods <0430> [for they were.]
Lord ..................... Lord <03068> [O Lord.]
prayer <06419> [which thou hast.]
heard <08085> [I have heard.]
virgin <01330> [The virgin.]
daughter .......... Daughter <01323> [the daughter.]
shakes ... head <07218 05128> [shaken her head.]
taunted .............. arrogantly <02778 07311> [Whom.]
shouted ..... arrogantly <06963 07311> [exalted thy voice.]
Holy One ... Israel <06918 03478> [the Holy One.]
Through <03027> [By. Heb. By the hand of. messengers.]
<07230> [With the multitude.]
tall cedars <0730 06967> [tall cedar trees thereof. Heb. tallness of the cedar-trees thereof. the forest of his Carmel. or, the forest, and his fruitful field.]
dug <06979> [I have digged, etc.]
I have conquered strange countries, and marched through the driest places, in which I have digged wells for my army.
soles <03709> [with the sole.]
My infantry have been so numerous, that they alone have been sufficient to dry up all the rivers of besieged places, either by drinking them, or by diverting their course into other channels.
Egypt <04693> [besieged places. or, fenced places.]
heard <08085> [Hast thou not, etc. or,]
Hast thou not heard how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps? I have done it.
powerless <03027 07116> [of small power. Heb. short of hand.]
terrified ......... plants <02865 06212> [they were.]
plants ............. grass <06212 02682> [the grass.]
know <03045> [I know.]
live <03427> [abode. or, sitting. thy going out.]
rage <07264> [thy rage.]
uproar <07600> [thy tumult.]
I ... put <07760> [I will put.]
This alludes to the method by which the common people manage their beasts in the East, especially the dromedaries, which are governed by a bridle fastened to a ring, which runs through the nostril of the beast.
way <01870> [by the way.]
confirmation <0226> [a sign.]
eat ................................ consume <0398> [Ye shall eat.]
remain <07604 06413> [the remnant that, etc. Heb. the escaping of the house of]
Judah that remaineth.
<03254> [shall yet again.]
Jerusalem <03389> [For.]
come out <06413> [they that escape. Heb. the escaping. the zeal.]
enter <0935> [He shall not come.]
build siege works <05550 08210> [cast a bank.]
way <01870> [By the way.]
shield <01598> [I will defend.]
servant <05650> [for mine.]
servant <05650> [my servant.]
night <03915> [that night.]
messenger <04397> [the angel.]
killed <05221> [and smote.]
got up early <07925> [when they arose.]
Sennacherib <05576> [Sennacherib.]
Nineveh <05210> [Nineveh.]
Nisroch <05268> [Nisroch.]
struck ... down ............. son <01121 05221> [his sons smote.]
land <0776> [the land.]
Armenia or Ararat is a province of Asia, comprising the modern Turcomania and part of Persia; having Georgia on the north, Curdistan, or the ancient Assyria on the south, and Asia Minor, now Natolia, on the west.
Ararat <0780> [Armenia. Heb. Ararat.]
Esarhaddon <0634> [Esar-haddon.]
Hezekiah <02396> [A.M. 3291. B.C. 713. was Hezekiah.]
prophet <05030> [the prophet.]
household instructions <01004 06680> [Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thine house.]
terminal .......... him .................... die <04191> [thou shalt die.]
turned <05437> [he turned.]
Remember <02142> [remember.]
<01980> [I have walked.]
faithfully <0571> [in truth.]
wholehearted <03824 08003> [a perfect heart.]
wept bitterly <01058 01419> [wept sore. Heb. wept with a great weeping.]
<02691> [court. or, city.]
back <07725> [Turn again.]
leader <05057> [the captain.]
God <0430> [the God.]
heard <08085> [I have heard.]
seen <07200> [I have seen.]
heal <07495> [I will heal.]
up <05927> [thou shalt go.]
add <03254> [I will add.]
shield <01598> [I will defend.]
Get .... cake ....... ordered <03947 01690> [Take a lump.]
ulcerated sore <07822> [the boil.]
The word {shechin,} from the Arabic {sachana,} to be hot, signifies an inflammatory tumour, or burning boil; and some think that Hezekiah's malady was a pleurisy; others, that it was the plague; and others, the elephantiasis, a species of leprosy, as one of the Hexapla versions renders in Job 2:7. A poultice of figs might be very proper to maturate a boil, or dismiss any obstinate inflammatory swelling; but we need not discuss its propriety in this case, because it was as much the means which God chose to bless for his recovery, as the clay which Christ moistened to anoint the eyes of the blind man; for in both cases, without Divine interposition the cure could not have been effected.
sign <0226> [What shall be.]
sign <0226> [This sign.]
called out .... Lord <07121 03068> [cried unto.]
made <07725> [he brought.]
steps .... stairs <04609> [dial. Heb. degrees.]
Merodach-Baladan <01255> [A.M. 3292. B.C. 712. Berodach-baladan.]
[Merodach-baladan. king.]
Babylon <0894> [Babylon.]
letters <07971 05612> [sent letters.]
heard <08085> [for he had heard.]
showed ........................... showed <07200> [shewed.]
storehouse <05238> [precious things. or, spicery.]
armory <03627> [armour. or, jewels. Heb. vessels. there was nothing.]
Isaiah .... visited ............... come ...... come <03470 0935> [came Isaiah.]
asked ....... say ........ replied <0559> [What said.]
distant land <0776 07350> [a far country.]
palace .......... palace <01004> [All the things.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
carried <05375> [shall be carried.]
descendants <01121> [thy sons.]
eunuchs <05631> [they shall be.]
"Fulfilled in Da. 1:3-7."
appropriate .......... peace <02896 07965> [Good.]
[It is not good, etc. or, Shall there not be peace and truth, etc. peace and truth.]
built ... pool <01295 06213> [he made a pool.]
scroll <05612> [the book.]
passed away <07901> [A.M. 3306. B.C. 698. slept.]
Manasseh <04519> [Manasseh.]
2 Kings 20:2
turned <05437> [he turned.]
2 Kings 1:1
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
After ... died <0310 04194> [after the.]
2 Kings 1:1-18
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
After ... died <0310 04194> [after the.]
lattice <07639> [a lattice.]
The flat roofs of the eastern houses are generally surrounded by a parapet wall breast high; but instead of this, some terraces are guarded with balustrades only, or latticed work. Of the same kind, probably, was the lattice, or net, as the term {shevacha} seems to import, through which Ahaziah fell into the court. This incident proves the necessity of the law for the formation of battlements for roof, (De 22:8,) which God graciously dictated from Sinai, which furnishes a beautiful example of his paternal care and goodness; for the terrace was a place where many offices of the family were performed, and business frequently transacted.
injured <02470> [was sick.]
Baal Zebub <01176> [Baal-zebub.]
[Beelzebub. god.]
survive <02421> [whether.]
angelic messenger ............ messengers <04397> [angel.]
Elijah <0452> [Elijah.]
Get <06965> [Arise.]
God .................... god <0430> [it.]
way <01980> [ye go.]
<03381> [Thou shalt, etc. Heb. The bed whither thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down from it. but shalt.]
replied .......... told ................... says <0559> [Thus saith.]
lie on <03381> [therefore.]
man <0376 04941> [What manner of man was he? Heb. What was the manner of the man?]
hairy man <01167 08181> [an hairy man.]
That is, he wore a rough garment, either made of camels' hair, as that of John Baptist, or of a skin, dressed with the hair on. Sir J. Chardin informs us, in a MS. note on this place, cited by Mr. Harmer, that the eastern dervishes and fakeers are clothed just as Elijah was, with a hairy garment, girded with a leathern girdle.
sent ... captain <07971 08269> [sent unto.]
sitting <03427> [he sat.]
Prophet <0376> [Thou man.]
prophet <0376> [If I be a man.]
fire .............. Fire <0784> [let fire.]
Or, rather, as the original literally imports, and the LXX. render, [katabesetai pyr,] fire shall come down; Elijah's words being simply declarative, and not imprecatory.
consume ............... consumed <0398> [consumed.]
king <07725> [Again.]
Prophet <0376> [O man.]
king sent <07725 07971> [he sent again.]
fell .... knees <03766 01290> [fell on. Heb. bowed.]
begged for mercy <02603> [besought.]
Prophet <0430 0376> [O man of God.]
came down <03381> [Behold.]
life <05315> [let my life.]
afraid <06440 03372> [be not afraid of him.]
sent <07971> [Forasmuch.]
Baal Zebub <01176> [Baal-zebub.]
Literally, "the lord of flies;" or, as the LXX. render, [Baal mwean theon,] Baal the fly god. See note on Ex 8:24.
[on which thou are gone up.]
In the East there is usually at the end of each chamber a little gallery, raised three or four feet above the floor, with a balustrade in front, to which they go up by a few steps: here they place their beds; an allusion to which situation is involved in this declaration of Elijah's, and frequently referred to in the Sacred Scriptures: see Ge 49:4.
Jehoram ......... Jehoram <03088> [Jehoram.]
As it is said in ch. 3:1, that he began his reign in the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat, it is supposed that Jehoshaphat admitted his son Jehoram to reign with him eight or nine years before his death. "The second year that Jehoram was Prorex, and the eighteenth of Jehoshaphat."
second <08147> [in the second.]
scroll <05612> [in the book.]
2 Kings 1:1
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
After ... died <0310 04194> [after the.]
Isaiah 36:1--39:8
fourteenth <0702> [it came.]
Sennacherib <05576> [that Sennacherib.]
sent <07971> [A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. sent.]
conduit <08585> [the conduit.]
Eliakim <0471> [Eliakim.]
Shebna <07644> [Shebna.]
scribe <05608> [scribe. or, secretary.]
said .... Tell <0559> [Thus saith.]
Assyria <0804> [Assyria.]
Assyria proper, now Kourdistan, was bounded by Armenia on the north, Media and Persia on the east, Babylonia on the south, and the Tigris, which divides it from Mesopotamia, on the west, between 33 degrees and 38 degrees N. lat. and 42 degrees and 46 degrees E. long. But the Assyrian empire, the bounds of which were different at different times, in its most flourishing state, according to the descriptions of the Greek and Roman writers, comprehended all the countries and nations between the Mediterranean on the west, and the Indus on the east, and between the deserts of Scythia on the north, and the Indian ocean on the south.
confidence <0986> [What.]
talk <01697 08193> [vain words. Heb. a word of lips. I have counsel and strength for war. or, but counsel and strength are for the war.]
rebel <04775> [that.]
trusting <0982> [We trust.]
high places <01116> [is it not.]
deal <06148> [pledges. or, hostages.]
give <05414> [and I.]
minor <06996> [the least.]
trust <0982> [and put.]
Aramaic <0762> [in the Syrian.]
eat <0398> [that they may.]
called out <07121> [cried.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
Send .... token of your submission <06213 01293> [Make an agreement with me by a present. or, Seek my favour by a present. Heb. Make with me a blessing.]
surrender <03318> [come out.]
each ..... eat .... own ........... own <0398 0376> [eat ye.]
come <0935> [I come.]
land ....... land ... grain ...... land <0776 01715> [a land of corn.]
The other copy in 2 Ki 18:32, adds here, "a land of oil olive, and of honey; that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah when he seduceth you."
Hezekiah <02396> [lest.]
<0376> [Hath.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
Arpad <0774> [Arphad.]
The variation of Arphad and Arpad exists only in the translation; the original being uniformly ['ArpÆ’d <\\See definition 0774\\>.]
[Arpad.]
Sepharvaim <05617> [Sepharvaim.]
Calmet is of opinion that Sepharvaim was the capital of the Saspires, who, according to Herodotus, were the only people that inhabited between the Colchians and Medes; and probably the Sarapases, whom Strabo places in Armenia. Hiller considers the name as denoting Sephar of the Parvaim, i.e., Mount Sephar adjacent to the regions of Arabia called Parvaim. But it is more probable, as Wells and others suppose, that Sepharvaim is the [Sipphara,] Sipphara, of Ptolemy, the [Sipparenon polis,] the city of the Sippareni, mentioned by Abydenus, and probably the Hipparenum of Pliny, a city of Mesopotamia, situated upon the Euphrates, near where it is divided into two arms, by one of which, it is probable, it was divided into two parts.
rescue <05337> [and have.]
Lord <03068> [that the Lord.]
Eliakim <0471> [Eliakim.]
clothes <0899> [with their.]
The history of the invasion of Sennacherib, observes Bp. Lowth, and the miraculous destruction of his army, which makes the subject of so many of Isaiah's prophecies, is very properly inserted here, as affording the best light to many parts of these prophecies; and as almost necessary to introduce the prophecy in the 37th chapter, being the answer of God to Hezekiah's prayer, which could not be properly understood without it. Sennacherib succeeded his father Shalmaneser on the throne of Assyria, A.M. 3290, B.C. 714, and reigned only about eight years.
King <04428> [it came.]
tore <07167> [he rent.]
went <0935> [and went.]
[his day.]
humiliation <05007> [blasphemy. or, provocation.]
baby <01121> [for the.]
<03068> [It may.]
taunt <02778> [to reproach.]
punish <03198> [and will.]
<05375> [lift up.]
remnant <07611> [for the.]
remains <04672> [left. Heb. found.]
said ............. says <0559> [Thus shall.]
afraid <03372> [Be not.]
cut ... down <05414 05307> [I will.]
mind <07307 05414> [send a blast upon him. or, put a spirit into him. I will cause.]
chief adviser <07262> [Rabshakeh.]
Libnah <03841> [Libnah.]
Lachish <03923> [Lachish.]
heard ................... ordering <08085> [he heard.]
Ethiopia <03568> [Ethiopia.]
Cush, which is generally rendered Ethiopia, is applied in Scripture to at least three distinct and different countries. 1. The country watered by the Gihon or Araxes, (Ge 2:13,) also called Cuth, 2 Ki 17:30. 2. A country of Arabia Petr‘a, bordering upon Egypt, which extended from the northern extremity of the Red sea along its eastern shore. (Comp. Ex 3:1, with Nu 12:1. Hab 3:7.) 3. Ethiopia Proper, an extensive country of Africa, comprehending Nubia and Abyssinia; being bounded on the north by Egypt, on the east by the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and on the south and west by various nations of Africa, and extending from about 6 degrees to 24 degrees N. lat. and 25 degrees to 45 degrees E. long. It is probable that it was this latter Cush, or Ethiopia, of which Tirhakah was king; he being in league with his kinsman Sevechus, son of So, or Sabacon, king of Egypt, against Sennacherib, the king of Assyria.
God <0430> [Let not.]
gods <0430> [the gods.]
Gozan <01470> [Gozan.]
Haran <02771> [Haran.]
Haran, the Carrh‘ of the Greeks and Romans, is situated in the north-west part of Mesopotamia, between the Euphrates and the river Chebar; about 110 miles west of Nisibis, 90 east of Bir, 100 south of Diarbekir, and 170 north of Palmyra.
Eden <05729> [Eden.]
It is probable that this Eden is the country near Diarbekir, on the Tigris, called MÆ’don, according to Asseman.
Telassar <08515> [Telassar.]
Telassar is probably the same as Ellasar, Ge 14:1, as the Jerusalem Targum reads; for both of which the Syriac has Dolassar; and perhaps, as Doederlein supposes, the same as Sharra, a city of Mesopotamia, half a mile from the Euphrates.
[Thelasar.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
Hena <02012> [Hena.]
Hena is probably the same as Anah, a city of Mesopotamia, situated on an island in the Euphrates.
Ivvah <05755> [Ivah.]
[Ava, Avites.]
took <03947> [received.]
Hezekiah ............ Hezekiah ... up <02396 05927> [and Hezekiah went.]
Lord <03068> [Lord.]
who ... enthroned <03427> [dwellest.]
God ............. God <0430> [thou art.]
made <06213> [thou hast.]
Pay <05186> [Incline.]
hear ........ Listen <08085> [hear.]
kings <04428> [the kings.]
nations .... lands <0776> [nations. Heb. lands.]
burned <05414> [And have.]
burned <05414> [cast. Heb. given. no gods.]
kingdoms <04467> [that all.]
[even.]
prayed <06419> [Whereas.]
virgin <01330> [The virgin.]
daughter .......... Daughter <01323> [the daughter.]
despises <0959> [hath despised.]
shakes <05128> [shaken.]
taunted .............. arrogantly <02778 07311> [Whom hast.]
arrogantly <07311> [against whom.]
Holy One <06918> [the Holy One.]
messengers <05650> [thy servants. Heb. the hand of they servants.]
many <07230> [By the.]
tall cedars ..... evergreens <0730 01265 06967> [tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof. Heb. tallness of the cedars thereof and the choice of the fir trees thereof.]
<03760> [of his Carmel. or, and his fruitful field.]
soles <03709> [with the sole.]
Egypt <04693> [besieged. or, fenced and closed.]
ago <07350> [long ago, etc. or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times?]
Should I now bring it to be laid waste, and defenced cities to be ruinous heaps?.
[how I.]
residents <03427> [their inhabitants.]
powerless <03027 07116> [of small power. Heb. short of hand. as the grass of.]
know <03045> [I know.]
live <03427> [abode. or sitting.]
rage <07264> [rage.]
uproar <07600> [tumult.]
I ... put <07760> [will I.]
reminder <0226> [this shall.]
eat .............................. consume <0398> [Ye shall.]
remain ... Judah <06413 01004 03063 07604> [remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah. Heb. escaping of the house of Judah that remaineth.]
root <08328> [take.]
come out <06413> [they that escape. Heb. the escaping. the zeal.]
enter <0935> [He.]
shielded warriors <04043> [shields. Heb. shield. cast.]
shield <01598> [I will.]
servant <05650> [for mine.]
servant <05650> [and for.]
messenger <04397> [the angel.]
got up early <07925> [and when.]
Sennacherib <05576> [Sennacherib.]
Nineveh <05210> [Nineveh.]
god <0430> [his god.]
Ararat <0780> [Armenia. Heb. Ararat.]
Esarhaddon <0634> [Esar-haddon.]
Esar-haddon, called Asar-addinus in the Canon of Ptolemy, was the third son of Sennacherib; and having reigned twenty-nine years over the Assyrians, he took advantage of the anarchy and confusion which followed the death of Mesessimordacus, and seized upon Babylon; which he added to his former empire, and reigned over both for thirteen years; when he was succeeded by his son Saosduchinus, A.M. 3336, B.C. 668.
Hezekiah <02396> [A.M. 3291. B.C. 718. was Hezekiah.]
Isaiah <03470> [And Isaiah.]
instructions .... household <01004 06680> [Set thine house in order. Heb. Give charge concerning thy house.]
illness ............................. die <04191> [for thou.]
turned <05437> [turned.]
Hezekiah's couch was probably placed in a corner, which is the place of honour in the East; in which, turning on either side, he must turn his face to the wall; by which he would withdraw himself from those attending him in his apartment.
Remember <02142> [Remember.]
<01980> [I have.]
wholehearted <08003> [a perfect.]
wept bitterly <01058> [wept.]
<01419> [sore. Heb. with great weeping.]
tell <0559> [and say.]
God <0430> [God.]
heard <08085> [I have heard.]
seen <07200> [I have seen.]
add <03254> [I will.]
make .............. then <07725> [I will bring.]
steps .... stairs ........... steps <04609 08121> [the sun dial. Heb. the degrees by, or, with the sun.]
Or, as the Hebrew might be rendered, "the steps of Ahaz." The researches of curious travellers in Hindostan, observes Bp. Stock, have lately discovered in that country, three observatories of similar form, the most remarkable of which is to be seen within four miles of Delhi, the ancient capital of the Mogul empire. A rectangled triangle, whose hypotenuse is a staircase, (apparently parallel to the axis of the earth,) bisects a zone, or coping of a wall, which wall connects the two terminating towers at right and left. The coping itself is of a circular form, and accurately graduated, to mark, by the gnomon above, the sun's progress before and after noon.
prayer <04385> [writing.]
sick <02470> [he had.]
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving song, which he penned by Divine direction, after his recovery. He might have used some of the Psalms of David his father, as he had appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, 2 Ch 29:30, but the occasion here was extraordinary. His heart being full of devout affections, he would not confine himself to the compositions he had, though of Divine inspiration, but offered up his praises in his own words. The Lord put a new song into his mouth. He put his thanksgiving into writing, that he might review it himself afterwards, for the reviving of the good impressions made upon him by the providential interference, and that it might be recommended to others also for their use upon the like occasion. # 2Ch 29:30
taken away <01540> [is removed.]
shepherd's <07473> [as a.]
rolled up <07088> [have cut.]
cuts me off <01214> [he will cut.]
loom <01803> [with pining sickness. or, from the thrum.]
lion <0738> [as a lion.]
thrush <05483> [a crane.]
coo <01897> [I did mourn.]
eyes <05869> [mine eyes.]
oppressed <06234> [I am.]
help <06148> [undertake for me. or, ease me.]
say <01696> [What.]
walk slowly <01718> [I shall.]
grief <04751> [in the.]
grief ... experienced ..... benefit <04751 07965> [for peace I had great bitterness. or, on my peace came great bitterness.]
delivered me .... pit <05315 07845 02836> [in love to my soul delivered it from the pit. Heb. loved my soul from the pit.]
removed <07993> [thou hast cast.]
Sheol <07585> [the grave.]
descend <03381> [they that.]
living .... living <02416> [the living.]
father <01> [the father.]
celebrate <05058> [therefore.]
music .... rest ... our <05059> [to the stringed.]
Isaiah <03470> [For Isaiah.]
sign <0226> [What.]
Merodach-Baladan <04757> [A.M. cir. 3292. B.C. cir. 712. Merodach-baladan.]
[Berodach-baladan.]
king <04428> [king.]
letters <07971 05612> [sent letters.]
welcomed <08055> [was glad.]
showed .......................... showed <07200> [shewed.]
storehouse <05238> [precious things. or, spicery.]
armory <03627> [armour. or, jewels. Heb. vessels, or instruments. there was.]
Isaiah .... visited ............... come ...... come <03470 0935> [came Isaiah.]
visited ............... come ...... come <0935> [They are.]
palace .......... palace <01004> [All that.]
Listen <08085> [Hear.]
palace <01004> [that all.]
descendants <01121> [of thy sons.]
eunuchs <05631> [they shall be. Fulfilled.]
appropriate <02896> [Good.]
peace <07965> [For.]
