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Complete Jewish Bible

Isaiah 37:18

It is true that the kings of Ashur have laid waste all the countries and their lands

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   Libnah;   Prayer;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Idolatry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Sennacherib;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Intercession;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hezekiah;   Sennacherib;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ararat;   Assyria;   Hezekiah;   Interesting facts about the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands.
Hebrew Names Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Ashshur have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
King James Version
Of a truth, Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
English Standard Version
Truly, O Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
New American Standard Bible
"Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands,
New Century Version
"It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these countries and their lands.
Amplified Bible
"It is true, O LORD, that the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries and their lands,
World English Bible
Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Trueth it is, O Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed all lands, & their countrey,
Legacy Standard Bible
Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste to all the countries and their lands
Berean Standard Bible
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands.
Contemporary English Version
It is true, our Lord , that Assyrian kings have turned nations into deserts.
Darby Translation
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their countries,
Easy-to-Read Version
It is true, Lord . The kings of Assyria did destroy all those nations.
George Lamsa Translation
Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands;
Good News Translation
We all know, Lord , that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate,
Lexham English Bible
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land,
Literal Translation
Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands, and their land,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is true (o LORDE) that the kinges of Assiria haue coquered all kingdomes & londes,
American Standard Version
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
Bible in Basic English
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
King James Version (1611)
Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue laid waste all the nations and their countreys,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
It is true O Lorde that the kynges of Assyria haue conquered all kyngdomes and landes,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For of a truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,
English Revised Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For verili, Lord, the kyngis of Assiriens maden londis dissert, and the cuntreis of tho, and yauen the goddis of tho to fier;
Update Bible Version
Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries,
Webster's Bible Translation
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,
New English Translation
It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.
New King James Version
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
New Living Translation
"It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.
New Life Bible
It is true, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.
New Revised Standard
Truly, O Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
who hath sent - to reproach a Living God. Of a truth, O Yahweh, - the kings of Assyria have devoted to destruction all the countries, and their land;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries.
Revised Standard Version
Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,
Young's Literal Translation
`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste all the lands and their land,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

Contextual Overview

8 Rav-Shakeh returned and, having heard that the king of Ashur had left Lakhish, found him making war with Livnah. 9 Then he heard it said that Tirhakah king of Ethiopia was on his way to fight him. On hearing this, the king of Ashur sent messengers to Hizkiyahu, after ordering them, 10 "This is what you are to say to Hizkiyahu king of Y'hudah: ‘Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, "Yerushalayim will not be handed over to the power of the king of Ashur." 11 You have heard what the kings of Ashur have done to all lands — they have completely destroyed them. So how will you be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them? No, my ancestors destroyed them — Gozan, Haran, Retzef and the people of ‘Eden who were in Tel'asar. 13 Where is the king of Hamat? the king of Arpad? the king of the city of S'farvayim, of Hena and ‘Ivah?'" 14 Hizkiyahu took the letter from the messengers' hands and read it. Then Hizkiyahu went up to the house of Adonai and spread it out before Adonai . 15 This is the prayer that Hizkiyahu prayed to Adonai : 16 " Adonai -Tzva'ot, God of Isra'el, who dwells above the k'ruvim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms on earth. You made heaven and earth. 17 Turn your ear, Adonai , and hear! Open your eyes, Adonai , and see! Hear all the words that Sancheriv sent to taunt 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
He said to him, "Go now, see whether things are going well with your brothers and with the sheep, and bring word back to me." So he sent him away from the Hevron Valley, and he went to Sh'khem,
Genesis 37:15
where a man found him wandering around in the countryside. The man asked him, "What are you looking for?"
1 Samuel 19:1
Sha'ul told Y'honatan his son and all his servants that they should have David killed. But because Y'honatan was very fond of David,
Psalms 31:13
Like a dead man, I have passed from their minds; I have become like a broken pot.
Psalms 37:12
The wicked plots against the righteous and grinds his teeth at him;
Psalms 37:32
The wicked keeps his eye on the righteous, seeking a chance to kill him.
Psalms 94:21
They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
Psalms 105:25
whose hearts he turned to hate his people, and treat his servants unfairly.
Psalms 109:4
In return for my love they became my accusers, even though I prayed for them.
Matthew 21:38
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let's kill him and take his inheritance!'

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."


 
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