Isaiah 37:36

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

The angel

And when

General references

Job 12:19

Psalm 48:3

Ezekiel 32:22

Bible References

The angel

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”

And the Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard,
And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of man will devour him.
So he will

not escape the sword,

And his young men will become forced laborers.

“Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.

For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand!” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed every mighty warrior, commander and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in shame to his own land. And when he had entered the temple of his god, some of his own children killed him there with the sword.

Let them be like chaff before the wind,
With the angel of the Lord driving them on.

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

And when

Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless momentary?

“They are exalted a little while, then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything gathered up;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He

raised His voice, the earth melted.

The stouthearted were plundered,

They sank into sleep;

And none of the warriors could use his hands.

For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

General references

“He makes priests walk barefoot
And overthrows the secure ones.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

“Assyria is there and all her company; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,