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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
2 YooKumkani 19:37
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Nisroch: 2 Kings 19:10, 2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 18:30, Deuteronomy 32:31, 2 Chronicles 32:14, 2 Chronicles 32:19, Isaiah 37:37, Isaiah 37:38
his sons smote: 2 Kings 19:7, 2 Chronicles 32:21
the land: Armenia or Ararat is a province of Asia, comprising the modern Turcomania and part of Persia; having Georgia on the north, Curdistan, or the ancient Assyria on the south, and Asia Minor, now Natolia, on the west.
Armenia: Heb. Ararat, Genesis 8:4, Jeremiah 51:27
Esarhaddon: Ezra 4:2
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:11 - seeketh 2 Kings 17:3 - king of Assyria 2 Kings 19:28 - by the way Psalms 80:13 - The boar Isaiah 7:17 - bring upon Nahum 1:12 - Through Nahum 1:14 - I will make 1 Timothy 1:9 - murderers
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The death of Sennacherib, which took place many years afterward (680 B.C.), is related here, as, from the divine point of view, the sequel to his Syrian expeditions.
Nisroch his god - Nisroch has not been as yet identified with any known Assyrian deity. The word may not be the name of a god at all but the name of the temple, as Josephus understood it. Assyrian temples were almost all distinguished by special names. If this be the true solution, the translation should run - “As he was worshipping his god in the house Nisroch.”
They escaped into the land of Armenia - literally, “the land of Ararat,” or the northeastern portion of Armenia, where it adjoined Media. The Assyrian inscriptions show that Armenia was at this time independent of Assyria, and might thus afford a safe refuge to the rebels.
Esar-haddon (or Esar-chaddon), is beyond a doubt the Asshur-akh-iddin of the inscriptions, who calls himself the son, and appears to be the successor of Sin-akh-irib. He commenced his reign by a struggle with his brother Adrammelech, and occupied the throne for only thirteen years, when he was succeeded by his son, Sardanapalus or Asshur-bani-pal. He warred with Phoenicia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, and Media, and built three palaces, one at Nineveh, and the others at Calah and Babylon.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 19:37. Nisroch his god — We know nothing of this deity; he is nowhere else mentioned.
Smote him with the sword — The rabbins say that his sons had learned that he intended to sacrifice them to this god, and that they could only prevent this by slaying him.
The same writers add, that he consulted his wise men how it was that such miracles should be wrought for the Israelites; who told him that it was because of the merit of Abraham who had offered his only son to God: he then said, I will offer to him my two sons; which when they heard, they rose up and slew him. When a rabbin cannot untie a knot, he feels neither scruple nor difficulty to cut it.
