Isaiah 36:18

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall." ¹²But the Rab-shakeh replied, "Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?" ¹³Then the Rab-shakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! ¹⁴This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you. ¹⁵Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, 'The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.' ¹⁶Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern, ¹⁷until I come and take you away to a land like your own-a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. ¹⁸Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.' Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?¹⁹Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? ²⁰Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"

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lest: Isaiah 36:7, Isaiah 36:10, Isaiah 36:15, Isaiah 37:10, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 92:5-7

Hath: Isaiah 37:12, Isaiah 37:13, Isaiah 37:17, Isaiah 37:18, 2 Kings 18:33-35, 2 Kings 19:12, 2 Kings 19:13, 2 Kings 19:17, 2 Kings 19:18, 2 Chronicles 32:13-17, Psalms 115:2-8, Psalms 135:5, Psalms 135:6, Psalms 135:15-18, Jeremiah 10:3-5, Jeremiah 10:10-12, Daniel 3:15, Habakkuk 2:19, Habakkuk 2:20

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 17:36 - seeing 2 Kings 18:34 - the gods 2 Chronicles 32:8 - rested 2 Chronicles 32:11 - to give over 2 Chronicles 32:15 - persuade Isaiah 10:7 - in his heart Isaiah 37:11 - General Isaiah 37:19 - And have Isaiah 37:38 - his god Isaiah 46:2 - they could Ezekiel 25:8 - the house Ezekiel 31:5 - his height Amos 6:2 - better Matthew 27:43 - trusted

Cross-References

Genesis 36:5
and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36:14
These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah (daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon) whom she bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

1 Chronicles 1:35
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you,.... To trust in the Lord, stand up in your own defence and not listen to these proposals; or, lest he "deceive you" m; with vain words; whom he would represent not only as not being their lawful king, and therefore never gives him that title, but also as a deceiver and impostor, of whom they should be cautious, and guard against:

saying, the Lord will deliver us; and therefore need not fear the boasts and threats, the force and fury, of the enemy:

hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land; over whom he presided, and to whom the people of it were devotees:

out of the hand of the king of Assyria? this reasoning would have had some weight in it had the Lord God of Israel been like the gods of the nations, but he is not; he is the Former and Maker of all things, and sits in the heavens, and does whatsoever he pleases in heaven and in earth; and therefore, though they could not deliver their nations that worshipped them, it did not follow that the God of Israel could not deliver Hezekiah and his people.

m פן יסית אתכם "ne forte decipiat vos", Calvin, Vatablus; "ne seducat vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hath any of the gods of the nations ... - This is said to show them the impossibility, as he supposed, of being delivered from the arm of the king of Assyria. He had conquered all before him, and not even the gods of the nations had been able to rescue the lands where they were worshipped from the hands of the victorious invader. He inferred, therefore, that Yahweh, the God of Palestine, could not save their land.