Isaiah
Verse 1. Sackcloth. Emblems of repentance. Sennacherib’s boasting (verse 13) was chastised. verse 36. Worthington.
EXPLANATIONS
Isaiah 37
Historical chapter commentary
Isaiah
Verse 7. Spirit. Angel, or a different design. 2 Thes. 2:8. Calmet.
Isaiah
Verse 18. Lands. Hebrew “all the lands and their land.” The parallel text is more correct, “the nations and their land.” Kennicott.
Isaiah
Verse 24. Carmel. See 4 Kennicott. 19. Challoner.
Isaiah
Verse 25. Shut, and so forth Hebrew matsor, ( Bible.) “of Egypt,” where Sennacherib had been. Calmet.
Isaiah
Verse 29. Lips, and treat thee like some ungovernable beast. Bible. Ezekiel 29:4 and 38:4. Calmet.
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Verse 30. Thee. He directeth his speech to Ezechias.
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Verse 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. Worthington.
Isaiah
Verse 36. They. The people of Jerusalem, or rather the soldiers of Ezechias, who saw those who had been slain, near Pelusium. Calmet.