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2 Kings Chapter
Nineteen
New King James Version (NKJV)
INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 19
This
chapter relates that King Hezekiah
on a report made to him of Rabshakeh's
speech
sent a message to the prophet Isaiah to pray for him
who returned him
a comfortable and encouraging answer
2 Kings 19:1 and
that upon Rabshakeh's return to the king of Assyria
he sent to Hezekiah a
terrifying letter
2 Kings 19:8
which
Hezekiah spread before the Lord
and prayed unto him to save him and his people
out of the hands of the king of Assyria
2 Kings 19:14
to
which he had a gracious answer sent him by the prophet Isaiah
promising him
deliverance from the Assyrian army
2 Kings 19:20
which accordingly was destroyed by an angel in one night
and Sennacherib
fleeing to Nineveh
was slain by his two sons
2 Kings 19:35.
2 Kings 19:1 And
so it was
when King Hezekiah heard it
that he tore his clothes
covered himself with sackcloth
and went into the house of the Lord.
YLT
1And it cometh to pass
at
king Hezekiah's hearing
that he rendeth his garments
and covereth himself
with sackcloth
and entereth the house of Jehovah
Verses 1-37
And it came to pass
when King Hezekiah heard it
.... The
report of Rabshakeh's speech
recorded in the preceding chapter:
that he rent his clothes
and covered himself with sackcloth; rent his
clothes because of the blasphemy in the speech; and he put on sackcloth
in
token of mourning
for the calamities he feared were coming on him and his
people: and he went into the house of the Lord; the temple
to pray unto him.
The message he sent to Isaiah
with his answer
and the threatening letter of
the king of Assyria
Hezekiah's prayer upon it
and the encouraging answer he
had from the Lord
with the account of the destruction of the Assyrian army
and the death of Sennacherib
are the same "verbatim" as in Isaiah 37:1
throughout; and therefore the reader is referred thither for the exposition of
them; only would add what RauwolffF20Travels
par. 3. ch. 22. p.
317. observes
that still to this day (1575) there are two great holes to be
seen
wherein they flung the dead bodies (of the Assyrian army)
one whereof is
close by the road towards Bethlehem
the other towards the right hand against
old Bethel.
2 Kings 19:2 2 Then he sent Eliakim
who was
over the household
Shebna the scribe
and the elders of the priests
covered
with sackcloth
to Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.
YLT
2and sendeth Eliakim
who
[is] over the house
and Shebna the scribe
and the elders of the priests
covering themselves with sackcloth
unto Isaiah the prophet
son of Amoz
2 Kings 19:3 3 And they said to him
“Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of trouble
and rebuke
and
blasphemy; for the children have come to birth
but there is no strength
to bring them forth.
YLT
3and they say unto him
`Thus said Hezekiah -- A day of distress
and rebuke
and despising [is] this day;
for come have sons unto the birth
and power there is not to bring forth.
2 Kings 19:4 4 It may be that the Lord your God will
hear all the words of the Rabshakeh
whom his master the king of Assyria
has sent to reproach 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.’”
YLT
4`It may be Jehovah thy God
doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of
Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God
and hath decided
concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard
and thou hast lifted up
prayer for the remnant that is found.'
2 Kings 19:5 5 So the servants of King
Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
YLT
5And the servants of king Hezekiah
come in unto Isaiah
2 Kings 19:6 6 And Isaiah said to them
“Thus you shall say to your master
‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be
afraid of the words which you have heard
with which the servants of the king
of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
YLT
6and Isaiah saith to them
`Thus do ye say unto your lord: Thus said Jehovah
Be not afraid because of the
words that thou hast heard
with which the servants of the king of Asshur have
reviled Me.
2 Kings 19:7 7 Surely I will send a
spirit upon him
and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I
will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
YLT
7Lo
I am giving in him a
spirit
and he hath heard a report
and hath turned back to his land
and I
have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
2 Kings 19:8 8 Then the Rabshakeh
returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah
for he heard
that he had departed from Lachish.
YLT
8And the chief of the
butlers turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah
for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.
2 Kings 19:9 9 And the king heard
concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia
“Look
he has come out to make war with
you.” So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah
saying
YLT
9And he heareth concerning
Tirhakah king of Cush
saying
`Lo
he hath come out to fight with thee;' and
he turneth and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah
saying
2 Kings 19:10 10 “Thus you shall speak to
Hezekiah king of Judah
saying: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive
you
saying
“Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.”
YLT
10`Thus do ye speak unto
Hezekiah king of Judah
saying
Let not thy God lift thee up in whom thou art
trusting
saying
Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.
2 Kings 19:11 11 Look! You have heard what
the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and
shall you be delivered?
YLT
11Lo
thou hast heard that
which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them; and
thou art delivered!
2 Kings 19:12 12 Have the gods of the
nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed
Gozan and Haran and
Rezeph
and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
YLT
12did the gods of the nations
deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan
and Haran
and Rezeph
and the
sons of Eden
who [are] in Thelassar?
2 Kings 19:13 13 Where is the king
of Hamath
the king of Arpad
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim
Hena
and
Ivah?’”
YLT
13Where [is] the king of
Hamath
and the king of Arpad
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim
Hena
and Ivvah?'
2 Kings 19:14 14 And Hezekiah received the
letter from the hand of the messengers
and read it; and Hezekiah went up to
the house of the Lord
and spread it before the Lord.
YLT
14And Hezekiah taketh the
letters out of the hand of the messengers
and readeth them
and goeth up to
the house of Jehovah
and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.
2 Kings 19:15 15 Then Hezekiah prayed
before the Lord
and said: “O Lord
God of Israel
the One who dwells between the cherubim
You are
God
You alone
of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and
earth.
YLT
15And Hezekiah prayeth before
Jehovah
and saith
`O Jehovah
God of Israel
inhabiting the cherubs
Thou
[art] God Himself -- Thyself alone -- to all the kingdoms of the earth: Thou
hast made the heavens and the earth.
2 Kings 19:16 16 Incline Your ear
O Lord
and hear;
open Your eyes
O Lord
and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib
which he has sent to reproach the
living God.
YLT
16Incline
O Jehovah
Thine
ear
and hear; open
O Jehovah
Thine eyes
and see; and hear Thou the words of
Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.
2 Kings 19:17 17 Truly
Lord
the kings of
Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands
YLT
17`Truly
O Jehovah
kings of
Asshur have laid waste the nations
and their land
2 Kings 19:18 18 and have cast their gods
into the fire; for they were not gods
but the work of men’s hands—wood
and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.
YLT
18and have put their gods
into fire
for they [are] no gods
but work of the hands of man
wood and
stone
and destroy them.
2 Kings 19:19 19 Now therefore
O Lord our God
I
pray
save us from his hand
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that
You are the Lord
God
You alone.”
YLT
19And now
O Jehovah our God
save us
we pray Thee
out of his hand
and know do all kingdoms of the earth
that Thou [art] Jehovah God -- Thyself alone.'
2 Kings 19:20 20 Then Isaiah the son of
Amoz sent to Hezekiah
saying
“Thus says the Lord God of Israel:
‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria
I have
heard.’
YLT
20And Isaiah son of Amoz
sendeth unto Hezekiah
saying
`Thus said Jehovah
God of Israel
That which
thou hast prayed unto Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard:
2 Kings 19:21 21 This is the word
which the Lord
has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin
the daughter of Zion
Has despised you
laughed you to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Has shaken her head
behind your back!
YLT
21this [is] the word that
Jehovah spake concerning him: `Trampled on thee -- laughed at thee
Hath the
virgin daughter of Zion Behind thee shaken the head -- Hath the daughter of
Jerusalem?
2 Kings 19:22 22 ‘Whom have you reproached
and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice
And lifted up
your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
YLT
22Whom hast thou reproached
and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Yea
thou dost lift up on high
thine eyes -- Against the Holy One of Israel!
2 Kings 19:23 23 By your messengers you
have reproached the Lord
And said: “By the multitude of my chariots I have
come up to the height of the mountains
To the limits of Lebanon; I will cut
down its tall cedars And its choice cypress trees; I will enter the
extremity of its borders
To its fruitful forest.
YLT
23By the hand of thy
messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord
and sayest: In the multitude of my
chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains -- The sides of Lebanon
And I cut down the height of its cedars
The choice of its firs
And I enter
the lodging of its extremity
The forest of its Carmel.
2 Kings 19:24 24 I have dug and drunk
strange water
And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of
defense.”
YLT
24I have digged
and drunk
strange waters
And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
2 Kings 19:25 25 ‘Did you not hear long ago
How I made it
From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought
it to pass
That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps
of ruins.
YLT
25Hast thou not heard from
afar
it I made
From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in
And it becometh a desolation
Ruinous heaps [are] fenced cities
2 Kings 19:26 26 Therefore their
inhabitants had little power; They were dismayed and confounded; They were as
the grass of the field And the green herb
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.
YLT
26And their inhabitants [are]
feeble-handed
They were broken down
and are dried up
They have been the herb
of the field
And the greenness of the tender grass
Grass of the roofs
And
blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!
2 Kings 19:27 27 ‘But I know your dwelling
place
Your going out and your coming in
And your rage against Me.
YLT
27And thy sitting down
and
thy going out
And thy coming in
I have known
And thine anger towards Me;
2 Kings 19:28 28 Because your rage against
Me and your tumult Have come up to 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 which
you came.
YLT
28Because of thine anger
towards Me
And thy noise -- it came up into Mine ears
I have put My hook in
thy nose
And My bridle in thy lips
And have caused thee to turn back
In the
way in which thou camest.
2 Kings 19:29 29 ‘This shall be a
sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself
And in the second
year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap
Plant
vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
YLT
29And this to thee [is] the
sign
Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth
And in the second year the
self-produced
And in the third year sow ye
and reap
And plant vineyards
and
eat their fruits.
2 Kings 19:30 30 And the remnant who have
escaped of the house of Judah Shall again take root downward
And bear fruit
upward.
YLT
30And it hath continued --
The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left -- to take root beneath
And hath made fruit upward.
2 Kings 19:31 31 For out of Jerusalem shall
go a remnant
And those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts[a] will do
this.’
YLT
31For from Jerusalem goeth
out a remnant
And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah [of Hosts]
doth this.
2 Kings 19:32 32 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the
king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city
Nor shoot an arrow there
Nor
come before it with shield
Nor build a siege mound against it.
YLT
32Therefore
thus said
Jehovah
Concerning the king of Asshur: He doth not come in unto this city
Nor
doth he shoot there an arrow
Nor doth he come before it with shield. Nor doth
he pour out against it a mount.
2 Kings 19:33 33 By the way that he came
By
the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city
’ Says the Lord.
YLT
33In the way that he cometh
in -- In it he turneth back
And unto this city he doth not come in
The
affirmation of Jehovah –
2 Kings 19:34 34 ‘For I will defend this
city
to save it For My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’”
YLT
34And I have covered over
this city
To save it
for Mine own sake
And for the sake of David My
servant.'
2 Kings 19:35 35 And it came to pass on a
certain night that the angel[b] of the Lord went out
and
killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and
when people arose early in the morning
there were the corpses—all dead.
YLT
35And it cometh to pass
in
that night
that a messenger of Jehovah goeth out
and smiteth in the camp of
Asshur a hundred eighty and five thousand
and they rise early in the morning
and lo
all of them [are] dead corpses.
2 Kings 19:36 36 So Sennacherib king of
Assyria departed and went away
returned home
and remained at Nineveh.
YLT
36And Sennacherib king of
Asshur journeyeth
and goeth
and turneth back
and dwelleth in Nineveh;
2 Kings 19:37 37 Now it came to pass
as he
was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god
that his sons Adrammelech and
Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of
Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
YLT
37and it cometh to pass
he
is bowing himself in the house of Nisroch his god
and Adramelech and Sharezar
[his sons] have smitten him with the sword
and they have escaped to the land
of Ararat
and Esar-Haddon his son reigneth in his stead.
──《John Gill’s
Exposition of the Bible》
New King James
Version (NKJV)