2 Koningen 20:14

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Toen kwam de profeet Jezaja tot koning Hizkia en zeide tot hem: Wat hebben deze mannen gezegd en van waar komen zij tot u? Waarop Hizkia zeide: Uit een ver land zijn zij tot mij gekomen, uit Babel.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen kwam Jesaja, de profeet, tot den koning Hizka, en sprak tot hem: Wat hebben deze lieden gezegd, en van waar zijn zij tot u gekomen? Hizka sprak: Zij zijn uit verre landen tot mij gekomen, van Babel.

Staten Vertaling
Toen kwam de profeet Jesaja tot den koning Hizkia, en zeide tot hem: Wat hebben die mannen gezegd, en van waar zijn zij tot u gekomen? En Hizkia zeide: Zij zijn uit verren lande gekomen, uit Babel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came Isaiah: Isaiah 39:3-8

What said: 2 Kings 5:25, 2 Kings 5:26, 2 Samuel 12:7-15, 2 Chronicles 16:7-10, 2 Chronicles 25:7-9, 2 Chronicles 25:15, 2 Chronicles 25:16, Psalms 141:5, Proverbs 25:12, Jeremiah 26:18, Jeremiah 26:19, Amos 7:12, Amos 7:13, Mark 6:18, Mark 6:19

a far country: Deuteronomy 28:49, Joshua 9:6, Joshua 9:9, Isaiah 13:5

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:9 - What men 2 Chronicles 28:9 - he went out Ezekiel 23:23 - Babylonians

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hezekiah did not answer Isaiah’s first question, “What said these men?” but only his second. Probably he knew that Isaiah would oppose reliance on an “arm of flesh.”

Babylon now for the first time became revealed to the Jews as an actual power in the world, which might effect them politically. As yet even the prophets had spoken but little of the great southern city; up to this time she had been little more to them than Tyre, or Tarshish, or any other rich and powerful idolatrous city. Henceforth, all this was wholly changed. The prophetic utterance of Isaiah on this occasion 2 Kings 20:16-18 never was, never could be, forgotten. He followed it up with a burst of prophecy Isa. 40–66, in which Babylon usurps altogether the place of Assyria as Israel’s enemy, and the captivity being assumed as a matter of certainty, the hopes of the people are directed onward beyond it to the Return. Other prophets took up the strain and repeated it Habakkuk 1:6-11; Habakkuk 2:5-8; Micah 4:10. Babylon thus became henceforth, in lieu of Assyria, the great object of the nation’s fear and hatred.