以赛亚书 37:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶和華啊！亞述列王果然使列國和他們的土地變成荒涼，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 啊 ， 亚 述 诸 王 果 然 使 列 国 和 列 国 之 地 变 为 荒 凉 ，

Contextual Overview

⁸ The field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish. When he went back, he found the king fighting against the city of Libnah. ⁹ The king received a report that Tirhakah, the Cushite king of Egypt, was coming to attack him. When the king of Assyria heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰ "Tell Hezekiah king of Judah: Don't be fooled by the god you trust. Don't believe him when he says Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria. ¹¹ You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done. They have completely defeated every country, so do not think you will be saved. ¹² Did the gods of those people save them? My ancestors destroyed them, defeating the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and the people of Eden living in Tel Assar. ¹³ Where are the kings of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the kings of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?" ¹⁴ When Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it, he went up to the Temple of the Lord . He spread the letter out before the Lord ¹⁵ and prayed to the Lord : ¹⁶ " Lord All-Powerful, you are the God of Israel, whose throne is between the gold creatures with wings, only you are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁷ Hear, Lord , and listen. Open your eyes, Lord , and see. Listen to all the words Sennacherib has said to insult the living God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the kings: 2 Kings 15:29, 2 Kings 16:9, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:24, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Nahum 2:11, Nahum 2:12

nations: Heb. lands

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:34 - the gods 2 Kings 19:18 - for they were 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Psalms 97:7 - Confounded Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:11 - General Isaiah 40:19 - General Isaiah 44:9 - and their Nahum 3:19 - upon

Cross-References

Genesis 37:14
His father said, "Go and see if your brothers and the flocks are all right. Then come back and tell me." So Joseph's father sent him from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph came to Shechem,

Genesis 37:15
a man found him wandering in the field and asked him, "What are you looking for?"

1 Samuel 19:1
Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David, but Jonathan liked David very much.

Psalms 31:13
I have heard many insults. Terror is all around me. They make plans against me and want to kill me.

Psalms 37:12
The wicked make evil plans against good people. They grind their teeth at them in anger.

Psalms 37:32
The wicked watch for good people so that they may kill them.

Psalms 94:21
They join forces against people who do right and sentence to death the innocent.

Psalms 105:25
He caused the Egyptians to hate his people and to make plans against his servants.

Psalms 109:4
They attacked me, even though I loved them and prayed for them.

Matthew 21:38
But when the farmers saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This son will inherit the vineyard. If we kill him, it will be ours!'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of a truth Lord,.... This is a truth and will be readily owned what the king of Assyria has said that his ancestors have destroyed all lands, or at least have endeavoured to do it, and have had it in their hearts to do it:

the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries: or "all the lands and their land" m; the Targum is,

"all provinces and their lands;''

the countries and town and villages in them, or the chief cities and villages round about them.

m כל הארצות ואת ארצם "omnes terras, et terram eorum", Pagninus, Montanus; "vel terram inquam eorum", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of a truth - It is as he has said, that all the nations had been subjected to the arms of the Assyrian. He now intends to add Jerusalem to the number of vanquished cities and kingdoms, and to boast; that he has subdued the nation under the protection of Yahweh, as he had done the nations under the protection of idol-gods.

Have laid waste all, the nations - Hebrew, as Margin, ‘All the lands.’ But this is evidently an elliptical form of expression, meaning all the inhabitants or people of the lands. In 2 Kings 19:17, it is thus expressed. ‘The kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.’

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 37:18. The nations — הארצות haratsoth, "the lands;" instead of this word, which destroys the sense, ten of Kennicott's and five of De Rossi's MSS. (one ancient) have here גוים goyim, "nations;" which is undoubtedly the true reading, being preserved also in the other copy; 2 Kings 19:17. Another MS. suggests another method of rectifying the sense in this place, by reading מלכם malcam, "their king, "instead of ארצם artsam, "their land;" but it ought to be מלכיהם malcheyhem, "all the countries and their kings."