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The Downfall of Sennacherib (First Half of 17th Century)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Flemish Baroque Style
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
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Explanation: 2 Kings 19 describes the destruction of Sennacherib's army, the removal of Sennacherib from the land of Judah, and his death in his own land. [Kings of Judah and Israel #1. Kings of Judah and Israel #2].
When Hezekiah heard Sennacherib's threats delivered by his emissary Rabshakeh, he sent Eliakim and Shebna to consult Isaiah. The LORD told them, through Isaiah, that he had heard Sennacherib's blasphemy; and He would cause Sennacherib to hear a rumor and would send Sennacherib back to his own land where he would die (1-7).
At that time, Rabshakeh told Sennacherib that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had come to fight him. However, Sennacherib sent another message to Hezekiah telling him not to trust God to save Jerusalem because he and the prior the kings of Assyria had conquered all the lands against whom they warred; and none of their gods delivered them (8-13).
Hezekiah took this letter and spread it before the LORD, confessing the the LORD alone was God, and asking him to hear Sennacherib's reproach and deliver them so that all the earth might know that he alone was the the LORD God (14-19).
Through Isaiah, the LORD said that he had heard Sennacherib's words and that Sennacherib was worthy only of Zion's scorn. His accomplishments were as nothing compared to the things the LORD did. Therefore the LORD would put a hook in his nose, and a bridle in his lips, and turn him back by the way he came (20-28).
As a sign that these things would come to pass, the LORD said that Judah would harvest natural growth things, followed by planting and harvest. And a remnant of Judah would go forth and escape (29-31).
And the LORD said that Sennacherib would not come into Jerusalem, would not fire an arrow at it, and would not build a siege bank against it. Rather, he would return to his own city (32-34).
That night, the Angel of the LORD killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers; and Sennacherib returned home where two of his sons killed him. A third son, Esarhaddon, reigned in his stead (35-37).
[ Sermons: James Faris. Various. ]
[ Illustration: Today's painting depicts the destruction of Sennacherib's army by the Angel of the LORD.]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: 2 Kings 19:
[Chapter 19: Related Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 32:17; 2 Chronicles 32:20-23; 2 Chronicles 32:32-33; 2 Chronicles 32:1; 2 Chronicles 32:21-22; Isaiah 37:1-35; Isaiah 37:38
[1] 2 Chronicles 32:20.
[2] 2 Kings 3:12; 2 Kings 13:14; 2 Kings 22:14; Jeremiah 37:3.
[3] Hosea 5:9; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 5:24; Nehemiah 9:18; Nehemiah 9:26; Hosea 13:13.
[4] 2 Chronicles 32:2; Genesis 27:38; Numbers 23:7; Isaiah 1:8; 2 Chronicles 32:1.
[6] 2 Kings 4:12; 2 Kings 5:20; 2 Kings 8:4; Exodus 33:11; Judges 7:10; 2 Samuel 9:9; 1 Kings 20:15; Psalm 44:16; Isaiah 51:7; Numbers 15:30.
[7] 1 Samuel 18:10; 1 Kings 22:21; Isaiah 19:14; Isaiah 29:10; Numbers 5:14; Hosea 4:12; Zechariah 13:2; Isaiah 37:7; Isaiah 28:26; Isaiah 28:29; Isaiah 11:2.
[8] 2 Kings 18:37; 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Kings 8:22; 2 Chronicles 32:9.
[9] Psalm 2:7; Psalm 3:2; 2 Kings 17:4.
[10] 2 Kings 18:29-35.
[12] 2 Kings 17:6; Genesis 11:31; Amos 5:26
[13] 2 Kings 18:34; ; Psalm 5:2.
[15] Exodus 25:22; 1 Samuel 4:4; Psalm 18:10; Ezekiel 1:26; Isaiah 40:18.
[18] 1 Chronicles 14:12; Isaiah 2:18-21; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 10:10; Amos 4:13;Amos 5:8; Amos 9:6-7.
[20] Isaiah 37:21.
[21] 2 Samuel 20:19; Psalm 22:8.
[22] Isaiah 40:26; Isaiah 14:13-14; Psalm 71:22; Psalm 78:41; Psalm 89:19; Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 51:5.
[23] Zechariah 11:1; Isaiah 14:13; Isaiah 2:13; Isaiah 10:33-34; Isaiah 10:18; 1 Kings 7:2.
[24] 2 Chronicles 32:3.
[25] Isaiah 22:11; Isaiah 46:10-11; Isaiah 10:5-15.
[26] Psalm 37:2; Psalm 90:5-6; Psalm 129:6; Isaiah 40:5-7; Isaiah 37:27.
[27] Psalm 139:2.
[28] Isaiah 32:9; Isaiah 32:11; Isaiah 32:18; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Ezekiel 19:4; Ezekiel 29:4; Isaiah 30:28; Psalm 32:9; 2 Kings 18:24.
[29] Leviticus 25:5; Leviticus 25:11.
[30] Isaiah 11:11-16; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 27:6.
[31] Isaiah 4:2-3; Isaiah 10:20-21; Isaiah 10:7.
[32] 2 Samuel 20:15; Habakkuk 1:10.
[34] Isaiah 31:5; Isaiah 38:6; 2 Kings 20:6; 1 Kings 11:12-13; 2 Samuel 7.
[35] Isaiah 37:36; 2 Chronicles 32:20-23; Exodus 12:12-13; Exodus 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:15-17; Psalm 91:6; Exodus 12:33.
[36] 2 Kings 20:12.
[37] 2 Kings 17:31; Jeremiah 39:3; Jeremiah 39:13.
-- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
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[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
2 Kings Detailed Outline
2 Kings 19
Notes: In the Hebrew Bible 1 Kings and 2 Kings were one Book. Overlapping dates for various kings indicate overlapping reigns (co-regencies).
1. The Reign of Solomon (1 Kings 1:1 - 1 Kings 11:43) - 971 - 931 B.C. Israel
2. The Divided Kingdom (1 Kings 12:1 - 2 Kings 25:30) - 931 - 560 B.C. Israel
FF. Hezekiah of Judah (2 Kings 18:1 - 20:21) - [715-686 B.C.]
1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone : therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I bought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third yearsow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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