Isaiah 37:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

Received

2 Kings 19:14

And hezekiah went

General references

2 Kings 19:10

Isaiah 37:2

Bible References

Received

Hezekiah read the letters from the messengers. Then he went to Jehovah's Temple and shared them with Jehovah.

And hezekiah went

King Hezekiah heard it and he tore his clothes. He covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of Jehovah.

Jehovah my God, I am your servant. Listen to my prayer. Grant the requests I make to you today.

Jehovah said: I have heard your prayers and your supplication you made. I have made this house holy. I put my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Day and night may your eyes be on this Temple, the place where you said your name will be. Listen to me as I pray toward this place.

He hides me in his shelter when there is trouble. He keeps me hidden in his tent. He puts me high on a rock.

([Psalm of David]) I wait silently for my God. My salvation comes from him.

How long, God, will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

([Psalm of Asaph]) God is known in Judah. His name is great in Israel.

I stretch out my hands to you for I long for you, like a parched land.

Let the priests and the ministers of Jehovah weep between the Temple porch and the altar! Let them say: Spare your people, O Jehovah, and do not give reproach to your heritage. That the nations should rule over them and say among the peoples, 'where is their God?'

General references

Tell King Hezekiah of Judah: 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be put under the control of the king of Assyria.

Hezekiah sent Eliakim the palace administrator along with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.