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Isaiah
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Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. See also: 2 Chronicles 32:12 Kings 18:13Isaiah 10:28-32The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway. See also: Isaiah 7:32 Chronicles 32:9-232 Kings 18:17-37Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him. See also: Isaiah 22:15-212 Samuel 8:16-172 Samuel 20:24-25Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust? See also: 2 Kings 18:19-37Psalms 71:10-11Proverbs 16:18I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? See also: 2 Kings 18:7Proverbs 24:5-62 Kings 24:1Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. See also: Ezekiel 29:6-72 Kings 18:21Isaiah 31:3But if you tell me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” See also: 2 Kings 18:4-51 Corinthians 2:15Psalms 42:5Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. See also: 1 Samuel 17:40-432 Kings 18:23Psalms 20:7-8How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? See also: Isaiah 10:8Isaiah 30:7Proverbs 21:31Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’” See also: Isaiah 10:5-72 Kings 18:252 Chronicles 35:21Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” See also: Ezra 4:7Daniel 2:42 Kings 18:26-27But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?” See also: 2 Kings 18:27Leviticus 26:29Deuteronomy 28:53-57Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! See also: 2 Chronicles 32:18Psalms 82:6-7Psalms 17:10-13The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. See also: 2 Thessalonians 2:4Revelation 13:5-62 Chronicles 32:11Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’ See also: Matthew 27:43Isaiah 36:7Psalms 22:7-8Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; See also: Zechariah 3:101 Kings 4:25Micah 4:4until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. See also: 2 Kings 18:32Exodus 3:82 Kings 18:9-12Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? See also: Isaiah 37:17-18Isaiah 36:15Isaiah 36:10Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? See also: Jeremiah 49:23Isaiah 10:9-112 Kings 17:5-7Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’” See also: 2 Chronicles 32:19Psalms 50:212 Chronicles 32:15But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.” See also: Proverbs 26:4Amos 5:13Matthew 7:6Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh. See also: Isaiah 36:3Isaiah 33:72 Kings 5:7
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 36:1
Ver. 1. And. These four chapters are taken from 4 K. xviii. &c. as a sort of explanation of what Isaias has been foretelling. C. --- An abridgment also occurs, 2 Par. xxxii.
↑ 1Isaiah 36:7
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 7. Altar. Such is the blindness of infidels, that they confound what is done to destroy idols, with their worship. W.
↑ 7License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses