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When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD’s house. See also: 2 Kings 19:1-37Job 1:20-21Isaiah 36:22He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. See also: Isaiah 1:1Isaiah 37:142 Chronicles 20:20They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth. See also: Isaiah 66:9Hosea 13:132 Kings 19:3It may be the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’” See also: Isaiah 36:20Isaiah 1:9Isaiah 10:22So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘The LORD says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. See also: Isaiah 7:4Isaiah 35:4Mark 5:36Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’” See also: Isaiah 31:8-92 Chronicles 32:212 Kings 7:6So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish. See also: Joshua 10:29Joshua 15:392 Chronicles 21:10He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, See also: Isaiah 18:1Isaiah 20:51 Samuel 23:27-28“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” See also: Isaiah 36:152 Kings 18:52 Chronicles 32:7-8Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered? See also: Isaiah 36:18-202 Kings 18:33-352 Kings 17:4-6Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? See also: Genesis 11:312 Kings 19:122 Kings 17:6Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’” See also: Isaiah 36:19Isaiah 10:9Jeremiah 49:23Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the LORD’s house, and spread it before the LORD. See also: Psalms 123:1-42 Kings 19:14Psalms 62:1-3Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying, See also: 1 Samuel 7:8-9James 5:132 Samuel 7:18-29“LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. See also: Exodus 25:22Psalms 99:1Psalms 86:10Turn your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God. See also: 2 Chronicles 6:40Psalms 17:61 Peter 3:12Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land, See also: 2 Kings 15:29Nahum 2:11-122 Kings 17:6and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. See also: Isaiah 26:142 Samuel 5:21Jeremiah 10:3-6Now therefore, LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the LORD, even you only.” See also: Psalms 46:101 Kings 18:36-37Psalms 83:17-18Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, See also: 2 Samuel 15:31Acts 4:312 Kings 19:20-21this is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. See also: Job 16:4Zechariah 2:10Isaiah 1:8Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. See also: Ezekiel 39:7Daniel 5:20-23Isaiah 17:7By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field. See also: Isaiah 14:8Isaiah 10:18Daniel 4:8-14I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.” See also: 1 Kings 20:102 Kings 19:23-24Isaiah 36:12“‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps. See also: Acts 4:27-28Acts 2:23Isaiah 10:15Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown. See also: Psalms 129:6Psalms 92:7Jeremiah 5:10But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. See also: Psalms 139:1-11Revelation 2:13Proverbs 5:21Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. See also: Isaiah 10:12Isaiah 37:34Isaiah 30:28“‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. See also: 2 Kings 19:29Exodus 3:121 Kings 13:3-5The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. See also: Isaiah 27:62 Kings 19:30-31Psalms 80:9For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Armies will perform this.’ See also: Isaiah 9:72 Kings 19:31Zechariah 1:14“Therefore the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. See also: Isaiah 8:7-10Isaiah 17:12Luke 19:43-44He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says the LORD. See also: Isaiah 37:29Proverbs 21:30‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’” See also: Isaiah 38:6Isaiah 31:52 Kings 20:6Then the LORD’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. See also: 2 Kings 19:35Isaiah 10:122 Samuel 24:16So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. See also: Jonah 3:3Jonah 1:2Isaiah 37:29As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place. See also: Genesis 8:4Jeremiah 51:27Ezra 4:2
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes
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 37:1
Ver. 1. Sackcloth. Emblems of repentance. Sennacherib's boasting (v. 13.) was chastised. v. 36.
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↑ 1Isaiah 37:7
Ver. 7. Spirit. Angel, or a different design. 2 Thes. ii. 8. C.
↑ 7Isaiah 37:18
Ver. 18. Lands. Heb. "all the lands and their land." The parallel text is more correct, "the nations and their land." Kennicott.
↑ 18Isaiah 37:24
Ver. 24. Carmel. See 4 K. xix. Ch.
↑ 24Isaiah 37:25
Ver. 25. Shut, &c. Heb. matsor, (H.) "of Egypt," where Sennacherib had been. C.
↑ 25Isaiah 37:29
Ver. 29. Lips, and treat thee like some ungovernable beast. H. Ezec. xxix. 4. and xxxviii. 4. C.
↑ 29Isaiah 37:30
Ver. 30. Thee. He directeth his speech to Ezechias.
↑ 30Isaiah 37:35
Ver. 35. Servant. Hence it plainly appears that God protects the living for the sake of the saints departed. To evade this proof, Prot. (Bible 1603) explain, "for God's promise sake made to David." But God never made any such promise to him; otherwise the city would never have been destroyed. W.
↑ 35Isaiah 37:36
Ver. 36. They. The people of Jerusalem, or rather the soldiers of Ezechias, who saw those who had been slain, near Pelusium. C.
↑ 36License: 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