Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah's Help

Isaiah 37

1 d As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet e Isaiah the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a f day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; g children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth. 4 h It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for i the remnant that is left.'"

5 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me. 7 Behold, j I will put a spirit in him, so that k he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and l I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.'"

8 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against m Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left m Lachish. 9 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of n Cush, 1 "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 "Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: o 'Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered? 12 p Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, q Gozan, r Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 p Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:1 - 38
    As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
    2 Kings 19:1
    As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:1
    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 22:5
    For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:8
    They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
    Hosea 13:13
    The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:28 - 29
    'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 1:9
    If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 19:14
    The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
  8. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:9
    Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, "He has set out to fight against you." And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying.
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:38
    And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
  10. Cross References
    Joshua 10:31
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.
  11. Cross References
    Joshua 10:31
    Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 18:1 - 2
    Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush.
    Isaiah 20:5
    Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:14
    Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 36:18 - 19
    Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, "The Lord will deliver us." Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  16. Cross References
    Genesis 11:31 - 32
    Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:12
    Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
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