Isaiah 37:23

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²¹Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, ²²this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you. ²³Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!²⁴Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: "With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypress trees. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests. ²⁵I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt." ²⁶Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. ²⁷Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are plants of the field, tender green shoots, grass on the roofs, scorched before it is grown. ²⁸But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me. ²⁹Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.' ³⁰And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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Whom hast: Isaiah 37:10-13, Exodus 5:2, 2 Kings 19:4, 2 Kings 19:22, 2 Chronicles 32:17, Psalms 44:16, Psalms 73:9, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 74:23, Revelation 13:1-6

against whom: Isaiah 10:13-15, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:14, Exodus 9:17, Proverbs 30:13, Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:9, Daniel 5:20-23, Daniel 7:25, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

the Holy One: Isaiah 10:20, Isaiah 12:6, Isaiah 17:7, Isaiah 30:11, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 43:3, Isaiah 43:14, Exodus 15:11, Ezekiel 39:7, Habakkuk 1:12, Habakkuk 1:13

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:7 - them that Numbers 15:30 - reproacheth 1 Samuel 2:3 - let not arrogancy 1 Samuel 17:36 - seeing 1 Samuel 17:45 - defied 2 Samuel 3:8 - do show 2 Samuel 22:28 - but thine 2 Kings 18:35 - that the Lord 1 Chronicles 20:7 - defied Psalms 10:3 - boasteth Psalms 22:7 - shake Psalms 80:6 - our enemies Psalms 83:2 - lifted Psalms 94:2 - render Psalms 139:20 - for they speak Isaiah 1:4 - the Holy Isaiah 5:15 - the eyes Isaiah 33:11 - your Isaiah 36:15 - General Isaiah 36:20 - that the Lord Isaiah 37:4 - to reproach Isaiah 57:4 - Against Jeremiah 48:42 - magnified Jeremiah 50:29 - for she hath Lamentations 1:9 - for Ezekiel 35:13 - with Daniel 3:15 - and who Daniel 5:23 - lifted Daniel 8:11 - he magnified Malachi 3:13 - Your Matthew 15:11 - but Acts 12:23 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

Genesis 37:31
Then they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

Genesis 37:33
His father recognized it and said, "It is my son's robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"

Genesis 42:21
Then they said to one another, "Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us."

Psalms 22:18
They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

Matthew 27:28
They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?.... A creature like thyself? no, but a God, and not one like the gods of the nations, the idols of wood and stone, but the living God:

and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice? alluding to Rabshakeh's crying with a loud voice, Isaiah 36:13:

and lifted up thine eyes on high? as proud and haughty persons do, disdaining to look upon those they treat with contempt:

even against the Holy One of Israel; that is, Israel's God, and will protect him; "a Holy One", and of purer eyes than to behold with pleasure such a proud blaspheming creature, and cannot look upon him but with indignation; for against such he sets himself; these he resists, pulls down, and destroys.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When hast thou reproached? - Not an idol. Not one who has no power to take vengeance, or to defend the city under his protection, but the living God.

Exalted thy voice - That is, by thy messenger. Thou hast spoken in a loud, confident tone; in the language of reproach and threatening.

And lifted up thine eyes on high - To lift up the eyes is an indication of haughtiness and pride. He had evinced arrogance in his manner, and he was yet to learn that it was against the living and true God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 37:23. Against the Holy One of Israel. — For אל el, to, the other copy has על al, against, rather more properly.