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Themes in Isaiah 37

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Themes in Isaiah 37

Isaiah 37:1 (show verse)

It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's house.

Attendance » Reasons for » A refuge in times of trouble
Sabbath » Worship celebrated on » Refuge » Times of trouble

Isaiah 37:2 (show verse)

He 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.

Eliakim » Son of hilkiah, deputy of hezekiah
Prophets » Counselors to kings
Shebna (shebnah) » A scribe of hezekiah

Isaiah 37:3 (show verse)

They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day 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 bring forth.

Prophets » Counselors to kings

It 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.'"

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Isaiah 37:5 (show verse)

So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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Isaiah 37:6 (show verse)

Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master, 'Thus says the LORD, "Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

Isaiah » Comforts and encourages hezekiah and the people during the siege of jerusalem by rab-shakeh

Isaiah 37:7 (show verse)

Behold, 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."'"

Blasting » Sent as a judgment
Isaiah » Comforts and encourages hezekiah and the people during the siege of jerusalem by rab-shakeh

Isaiah 37:8 (show verse)

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:9 (show verse)

He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, "He has come out to fight against you." When he heard it, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

Letters » Rabshakeh to hezekiah
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Tirhakah » King of ethiopia

Isaiah 37:10 (show verse)

"Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem won't be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Letters » Rabshakeh to hezekiah
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:11 (show verse)

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?

Isaiah 37:12 (show verse)

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Eden » A marketplace of costly merchandise
Haran » Also called charran » Idolatry in
Letters » Rabshakeh to hezekiah
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Rezeph » A city destroyed » By assyrians
Telassar » A city » A city or district conquered by the assyrians
Thelasar » A city » Conquered » By the assyrians

Isaiah 37:13 (show verse)

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?'"

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Divination » Effected through » Observing heavenly bodies
Hena » A city » A city on the euphrates river
Ivah » A district » A district in babylon conquered by the assyrians
Letters » Rabshakeh to hezekiah
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Sepharvaim » An assyrian city, from which the king of assyria colonized samaria

Isaiah 37:14 (show verse)

Hezekiah 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.

Attendance » Reasons for » A refuge in times of trouble
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Letters » Rabshakeh to hezekiah
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Sabbath » Worship celebrated on » Refuge » Times of trouble

Isaiah 37:15 (show verse)

Hezekiah prayed to the LORD, saying,

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:16 (show verse)

"LORD of hosts, 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.

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
special divine Manifestations » Shekinah glory » Mercy-seat
Mercy-seat » The shekinah upon
Shekinah » The visible sign of God's presence on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies

Isaiah 37:17 (show verse)

Turn 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.

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:18 (show verse)

Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,

Armies » Devastation occasioned by
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:19 (show verse)

and 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.

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Idol » Made of » Wood and stone
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Stones » Idols made of

Isaiah 37:20 (show verse)

Now 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."

Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:21 (show verse)

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Assyria » Sennacherib king of » Reproved for pride and blasphemy
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:22 (show verse)

this 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.

Isaiah 37:23 (show verse)

Whom 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.

Isaiah 37:24 (show verse)

By your servants, have you 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 fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Assyria » Sennacherib king of » Reproved for pride and blasphemy
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Cedars » Described as » High
Forests » Often destroyed by enemies
Forests » Mentioned in scripture » Carmel
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:25 (show verse)

I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

Isaiah 37:26 (show verse)

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.

Isaiah 37:27 (show verse)

Therefore 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.

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Assyria » Sennacherib king of » Reproved for pride and blasphemy
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Grass » Illustrative » (on tops of houses,) of the wicked
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Man » A social being » As grass
Mortality » Of man » Man compared to withering grass
The wicked » Confounded

Isaiah 37:28 (show verse)

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

Isaiah 37:29 (show verse)

Because 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.

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Assyria » Sennacherib king of » Reproved for pride and blasphemy
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Government » Of God » Manifested in the control of men
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:30 (show verse)

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 the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Blasphemy » Instances of » Rabshakeh, in the siege of jerusalem
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Symbols and similitudes » Food

Isaiah 37:31 (show verse)

The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

Isaiah 37:32 (show verse)

For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go forth, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.'

Isaiah 37:33 (show verse)

Therefore thus says the LORD 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.

Isaiah 37:34 (show verse)

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,' says the LORD.

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near

Isaiah 37:35 (show verse)

'For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.'"

Assyria » Prophecies concerning
Battle of Life » God » Represented as » A defence
God » Christ as » Defence of believers by
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
divine Protector » A defence

Isaiah 37:36 (show verse)

The angel of the LORD 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.

Angels » Of wrath, execute the judgments of God
Assyria » Army of, destroyed by the angel of the lord
Libnah » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, captured by joshua » Sennacherib besieged; his army defeated near
Miracles » Catalogue of » The destruction of sennacherib's army
Sennacherib » Death of

Isaiah 37:37 (show verse)

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

Nineveh » The ancient capital of assyria
Nineveh » Sennacherib in
Nisroch » An idol
Regicide » Of sennacherib
Sennacherib » Death of

Isaiah 37:38 (show verse)

It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that 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.

Adrammelech » Son of sennacherib
Ararat » Assassins of sennacherib take refuge in
Armenia » Assassins of sennacherib take refuge in
Assassination » Instances of » Sennacherib, by his sons
Esar-haddon (esarhaddon) » Succeeds sennacherib
Homicide » Instances of felonious » Of sennacherib
Nineveh » Sennacherib in
Nisroch » An idol
Parricide » Murdering one's own parent s
Patricide » Of sennacherib
Regicide » Of sennacherib
Sennacherib » Death of
Sharezer » Son of sennacherib