Isaiah 36:1-22
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.
