He also sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
They said to him, “Thus said Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of chastisement, and of disgrace. The babes have reached the birthstool, but the strength to give birth is lacking.aThe babes have reached the birthstool, but the strength to give birth is lacking I.e., the situation is desperate and we are at a loss.
Perhaps the ETERNAL your God will take note of all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to blaspheme the living God, and will mete out judgment for the words that the ETERNAL your God has heard—if you will offer up prayer for the surviving remnant.”
Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master as follows: Thus said GOD: Do not be frightened by the words of blasphemy against Me that you have heard from the minions of the king of Assyria.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
להם
75
ישעיהו
401
כה
25
תאמרון
697
אלאדניכם
156
כה
25
אמר
241
יהוה
26
אלתירא
642
מפני
180
הדברים
261
אשר
501
שמעת
810
אשר
501
גדפו
93
נערי
330
מלךאשור
597
אתי
411
II Kings 19:7
Gematria: 3357
הננינתןבורוחושמעשמועהושבלארצווהפלתיובחרבבארצו
I will deludebdelude Lit. “put a spirit in.” him; he will hear a rumor and return to his land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his land.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
הנני
115
נתן
500
בו
8
רוח
214
ושמע
416
שמועה
421
ושב
308
לארצו
327
והפלתיו
537
בחרב
212
בארצו
299
II Kings 19:8
Gematria: 3435
וישברבשקהוימצאאתמלךאשורנלחםעללבנהכישמעכינסעמלכיש
The Rabshakeh, meanwhile, heard that [the king] had left Lachish; he turned back and found the king of Assyria attacking Libnah.
“Tell this to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God, on whom you are relying, mislead you into thinking that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of Assyria.
Were the nations that my predecessorscpredecessors Lit. “fathers.” destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the Beth-edenites in Telassar—saved by their gods?
Word-by-Word Analysis
ההצילו
146
אתם
441
אלהי
46
הגוים
64
אשר
501
שחתו
714
אבותי
419
אתגוזן
467
ואתחרן
665
ורצף
376
ובניעדן
192
אשר
501
בתלאשר
933
II Kings 19:13
Gematria: 1950
איומלךחמתומלךארפדומלךלעירספרויםהנעועוה
Where is the king of Hamath? And the king of Arpad? And the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”
And Hezekiah prayed to the ETERNAL and said, “O GOD of Hosts, Enthroned on the Cherubim! You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “Thus said the ETERNAL, the God of Israel: I have heard the prayer you have offered to Me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria.
Through your envoys you have blasphemed my Sovereign.Because you thought,‘Thanks to my vast chariotry,It is I who have climbed the highest mountains,To the remotest parts of the Lebanon,And have cut down its loftiest cedars,Its choicest cypresses,And have reached its remotest lodge,dremotest lodge Cf. Isa. 37.24 “highest peak.” Its densest forest.eIts densest forest Lit. “Its farmland forest”; exact meaning of Heb. uncertain.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ביד
16
מלאכיך
121
חרפתאדני
753
ותאמר
647
ברכב
224
ברב
204
רכבי
232
אני
61
עליתי
520
מרום
286
הרים
255
ירכתי
640
לבנון
138
ואכרת
627
קומת
546
ארזיו
224
מבחור
256
ברשיו
518
ואבואה
21
מלון
126
קצה
195
יער
280
כרמלו
296
II Kings 19:24
Gematria: 3370
אניקרתיושתיתימיםזריםואחרבבכףפעמיכליארימצור
It is I who have drawnfdrawn Or “dug”; meaning of Heb. uncertain. and drunk the waters of strangers;I have dried up with the soles of my feetAll the streams of Egypt.’
Have you not heard? Of oldI planned that very thing,I designed it long ago,And now have fulfilled it.And it has come to pass,Laying waste fortified townsIn desolate heaps.
Their inhabitants are helpless,Dismayed and shamed.They were but grass of the fieldAnd green herbage,Grass of the roofs that is blastedBefore the standing grain.gstanding grain Emendation yields “east wind”; see note at Isa. 37.27.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישביהן
383
קצרייד
414
חתו
414
ויבשו
324
היו
21
עשב
372
שדה
309
וירק
316
דשא
305
חציר
308
גגות
412
ושדפה
395
לפני
170
קמה
145
II Kings 19:27
Gematria: 2851
ושבתךוצאתךובאךידעתיואתהתרגזךאלי
I know your stayingsAnd your goings and comings,And how you have raged against Me.
Because you have raged against Me,And your tumult has reached My ears,I will place My hook in your noseAnd My bit between your jaws;And I will make you go back by the roadBy which you came.
“And this is the sign for you:hyou I.e., Hezekiah. This year you eat what grows of itself, and the next year what springs from that; and in the third year, sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וזהלך
68
האות
412
אכול
57
השנה
360
ספיח
158
ובשנה
363
השנית
765
סחיש
378
ובשנה
363
השלישית
1055
זרעו
283
וקצרו
402
ונטעו
141
כרמים
310
ואכלו
63
פרים
330
II Kings 19:30
Gematria: 3423
ויספהפליטתביתיהודההנשארהשרשלמטהועשהפרילמעלה
And the survivors of the House of Judah that have escaped shall regenerate its stock below and produce boughs above.
Assuredly, thus said GOD concerning the king of Assyria:He shall not enter this city:He shall not shoot an arrow at it,Or advance upon it with a shield,Or pile up a siege mound against it.
Word-by-Word Analysis
לכן
100
כהאמר
266
יהוה
26
אלמלך
121
אשור
507
לא
31
יבא
13
אלהעיר
316
הזאת
413
ולאיורה
258
שם
340
חץ
98
ולאיקדמנה
246
מגן
93
ולאישפך
447
עליה
115
סללה
125
II Kings 19:33
Gematria: 1961
בדרךאשריבאבהישובואלהעירהזאתלאיבאנאםיהוה
He shall go backBy the way he came;He shall not enter this city—declares GOD.
Word-by-Word Analysis
בדרך
226
אשריבא
514
בה
7
ישוב
318
ואלהעיר
322
הזאת
413
לא
31
יבא
13
נאםיהוה
117
II Kings 19:34
Gematria: 2126
וגנותיאלהעירהזאתלהושיעהלמעניולמעןדודעבדי
I will protect and save this city for My sake,And for the sake of My servant David.”
That night an angel of GOD went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp, and the following morning they were all dead corpses.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
בלילה
77
ההוא
17
ויצא
107
מלאך
91
יהוה
26
ויך
36
במחנה
105
אשור
507
מאה
46
שמונים
446
וחמשה
359
אלף
111
וישכימו
392
בבקר
304
והנה
66
כלם
90
פגרים
333
מתים
490
II Kings 19:36
Gematria: 1898
ויסעוילךוישבסנחריבמלךאשורוישבבנינוה
So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and retreated, and stayed in Nineveh.
While he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sarezer struck him down with the sword. They fled to the land of Ararat, and his son Esarhaddon succeeded him as king.