Rab-shakeh's blasphemy.

II. KINGS.

Hezekiah mourning, is comforted.

Before have counsel and strength for the war. Now, on with their clothes + rent, and told him the words of
CHRIST whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Rab-shakeh.

g Job 3.

21 Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of Frov. 21,50. this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it : so is Pha

h Isa. 36, 6.

Ezek. 29,6, raoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

7.

22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD i verse 4. our God: is not that he whose high places and whose 2 Chr. 81, 1. altars Hezekiah hath taken away; and hath said to 12 Chr 32, Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship * before this

altar in Jerusalem ?

23 Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

24 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

25 And I now come up without the LORD against Kings this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

11
13,18.
ch. 19, 15.

Isa. 36, 10.

26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we † understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' Gen. 11, 7. language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Heb. we are hearing

the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

29 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive n Dan. 3, 15, you; for he shall not be able to deliver you out of 17. 7, 25. his hand: John 19, 10,

11.

Rev. 13, 6.

Ileb.

Make with

30 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, † Make an agreement with me by a The a bless present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every Gen 33,11. man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern ;

5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 16, 12. 6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to i ch. 18,55. your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of k Ps. 50, 21. the words which thou hast heard, with which the ser- 1 ch. 17.3.6. vants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 2 Chr. 26, G. 7 Behold, I will send † a blast upon him, and he mExod. 14, 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.

32 Until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land; a land of corn and wine, a land of
bread and vineyards, a land of oil-olives and of honey, { Hena, and Ivah?
that ye may live and not die: and hearken not unto
Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The
LORD will deliver us.

33 Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered Pat all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Jer.49,23. where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? 24, 30, 31.' have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

chap. 17,

* Mat. 7, 6.

35 Who are they, among all the gods of the coun-and earth.
tries, that have delivered their country out of mine
hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of
mine hand?

36 But the people held their peace, and answered Prov. 28,4. him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

a Jer. 10, 11

16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, b Ps. 31, 2 LORD, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of 2 Chr. & Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the 40. living God.

17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

d Num

† Heb. given. 2 Sam. 5,21

37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood e Jer. 10,2 Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah, { and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Before

CHAPTER XX.

Before

Isaiah prophesieth Sennacherib's destruction. Hezekiah's life lengthened. 19 Now therefore, O LORD'Our God, I beseech 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in CHRIST thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the king-the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech CHRIST doms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword:

28.

Kings &, God, even thou-only.

g Ps. 83, 18.

h Dan. 9, 20.

I verse 19.

709.

and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Pch. 17, 31.

a verse 17.

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Heze- { || Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. kiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Senna-1 Hezekiah, by prayer, hath his life lengthened....20 Manas-mmorchs,

Psal. 65, 2. cherib king of Assyria I have heard.

1 Isa. 8, 9, 10.

21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken IN

concerning him: The virgin the daughter

Hosea 11, 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.

Zech. 2, 5.

m Lam. 2,

15.

n Ps. 71, 22. Isaiah 5, 24.

23 By the messengers thou hast reproached the

N those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, a ch.19, 5.3. and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, set thine b 2 Sam. 17, house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed e Mat. 6, t.

unto the LORD, saying,

d

3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.

01 Kings LORD and hast said, With the multitude of my char-And Hezekiah' wept sore.

23.

Neh. 13,

e 1 Thes. 2,

f 2 Sam. 7,

verse 6.

4 And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out ver into the middle court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

8.

1 Kings 6.

5 Turn again, and tell Hezekiah, the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy h Ps. 61, 2, tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD.

& 56, 8.

k verse 7.

Ps. 39, 12. 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and Isn.38, 21. I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the 1 verse 21. Job 14, 5.

Isa. 10,5, have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be toking of Assyria; and I will defend this city for mine

Heb. short

of hand,

Ps. 127, 1.

lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

26 Therefore the inhabitants were of † small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the "grass of the field, and as the green herb, as u Ps. 123,6. the grass on the house-tops, and as corn blasted before

Jer. 5, 10.

Ps. 139, 2.

y Acts 3, 4.

Job 41, 2.

Ezek. 29, 4.

Ps. 32, 9.

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

James 3,3. turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

b Lev. 25, 4.

1 Kings 3,

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 Eph. 3, 20. in the third year sow ye and reap, and plant vineyards,

13.

verse 19.

4 Ps. 80, 9.

e Isa. 2, S.

and eat the fruits thereof.

30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take d root downward, and bear fruit upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, (Isa. 9, 7. 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 a 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.

Manasseh's wicked reign.

II. KINGS.

Josiah's good reign

Before house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store } mies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to

CHRIST cir. 710.

b chap. 24, 13. Ter.27 22. & 52, 17.

ch. 24, 12.

2 Chr. 33, 11.

unto this day, shall be carried unto Babylon: nothing all their enemies;
shall be left, saith the LORD.

18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which
thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall
be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good dis the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he d1 Sam. 3, said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my

Dan. 1, S.

18. Job 1, 21. Psal. 39. 9.

days?

20 And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all{ e Zech. 8, his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, kom. 15, 5. and brought water into the city, are they not written Heb. 12, 14. in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. CHAPTER XXI.

(ch. 18, 16. Neb. 3, 16.

g 2 Chr. 32, 3, 4.

h1 Kings 2, 10.

cir. 698.

15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

Before CHRIST cir. 698.

c1 Kings 8.

d Dan. 3,4

16 Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very s. much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah c 1 Kings to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the 11,6. LORD.

f2 Chr. 35,

17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all $, 12 that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

643.

g 2 Chr. 33,

18 And Manasseh & slept with his fathers, and was 20. buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden Mat. 1, 10 of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

33.

1 Manasseh's reign....3 His great idolatry. ANASSEH was * twelve years old when he five yearsin Ach. 20, 6. Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. 2 Chr. 33, 1. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of b Isa. 62, 4. the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, c ver. 6, 16. whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. { the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusa- i Num. 33, lem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the Deut. 10, 7. daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

4. And he built altars in the house of the LORD,
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against
of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my { him, and slew the king in his own house.

7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes, of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any p ch. 18, 11. more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only 2 Chr. 33, 8. if they will observe to do according to all that I have y Lev. 26, commanded them, and according to all the law that

Jer. 2, 13. n 1 Kings

K

641.

och. 14, 5. p Judg. 1,2

2 Chr. 24, 21.

24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of wrse 23. the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

Mat. 7, 2. 9 ch. 16, 20

23

25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he is, did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles Acts 1, 25, of the kings of Judah?

26.

26 And he was buried in his sepulchre, in the gar-K Kings den of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. Mat. 1, 10

2 And he did that which was right in the sight of e 1 Kings the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his 35.& 14 father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to a Deut. 5, the left.

32.

624.

That is, of

3 And it came to pass, in || the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of his reign Azaliah, the son of Meshullan the scribe of the house of the LORD, saying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the 'keepers of the † door have gathered of the people:

2 Chr. 34, 5,

e Jer. 1, 1.

f2 Chr. 8, 14. & 34, 9.

↑ Heb. threshold,

5 And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers Ps. 84, 10. of the work, that have the oversight of the house of g 2chr.3 the LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the iz work which is in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,

6 Untoh carpenters, and builders, and masons, and h ch. 12, 19 to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. 1 ch. 2, 12

7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt + faithfully.

14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inher-
itance, and deliver them into the hand of their ene- 8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan

† Heb
in truth,
2

k Deut. $1,

24, 26.
2 Chr. 34,
น

I ver. 3, 11.

m Jer. 36,

21.

Shaphan, and he read it.

Before

Josiah destroyeth idolatry. covenant & before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies CHRIST and his statutes, with all their heart and all their soul,

to perform the words of this covenant that were writ- & Lev. 1,2

covenant.

1 Kings 11,

9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servantsten in this book: and all the people stood to the in have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the LORD.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, i Eccl. 9, a

and the priests of the second order, and the keepers
of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the

7,21.

10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, say-LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and ch. 24,4 ing, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me 'a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard Deut. 17, the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

o Gen. 37, 29.

12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, p2 Chr. 34, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king's, saying,

9.

13 Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of 9 Ex. 20,5. this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

1 Cor. 10,6,

11.

Judg. 4, 4

22

11 Kings 1,

for the grove, and for all the host of heaven; and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, 35. and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

m 1 Kings

n Jer. 3, 6.

5 And he put down the " idolatrous priests, whom Ho the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the Hos. 10, & places round about Jerusalem; them also that burnt Zeph. 1,4 incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

o ch. 17, 18.

6 And he brought out the groves from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, ch. 21,7. and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon 9 2 Chr. 34 the graves of the children of the people.

2

4.

7 And he brake down the houses of the Sodom-r Deut. 23 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Ach-ites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the Kings 14

15,20 bor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of TikChr. vah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the † wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the || college ;) and they communed with her.

16 Thus saith the LORD, behold, I will bring evil verse 18. upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even "all the words of the book which the king of Judah { not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they 13 hath read :

19 Because thine heart was † tender, and thou hast * humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heard-per chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had Jer. 19, 13.

made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in Zeph. 1, &

Lev. 26, est what I spake against this place and against the
Prov. 23,13. inhabitants thereof, that they should become a deso-the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king c ch. 21, &

Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the proph-the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who Zech. 1, 1. ets, and all the people, both small and great: andmade Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the

4 ch. 22, 3. he read in their ears all the words of the 'book of the ⚫ch. 11,14 covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. 3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a

33.

Josiah slain at Megidilo.

Before

II. KINGS.

Jerusalem taken and spoiled. sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and 5 Riblah, in the land of Hamath, that he might not

CHRIST took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD, which the man of God proclaimed, who || proclaimed these words.

1 More than 300 years before,

1 Kings 13,

2.

Isa. 54, 1.

b 1 Kings

13, 30, 31.

i 2 Sam. 3,

18.

Rom. 1, 18.

17 Then he said, What title is that that I see?"
And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre
of the man of God which came from Judah, and pro-
claimed these things that thou hast done against the
altar of Beth-el.

18 And he said, Let him alone; let no man move
his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones

Ist. 57,2 of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

11 Kings 13, 31.

19 And all the houses also of the high places that m1 Kings were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of 18, 11. & 16, Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all 2 Chr. 34, the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

24.

5.

34 And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz n ch.24. 17 away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

o Dan. 1, 1

35 And Jehoiakim "gave the silver and the gold to pJer. 22,11. Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money q verse 33 according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.

36 1 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old. Chr. when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years Ezek. 19, a {in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

s Jer. 22,13. 36, 21, 22,

& 26, 20. &

37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 23 & 52, 13 CHAPTER XXIV.

8 Jehoiachin's evil reign....10 Jerusalem is taken.

IN "his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

b

607.

606.

603.

600.

came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant a Jer. 25, 1. three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. Dan. 1, 1.

2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the b Jer. 46, 1. Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the 1 Kings Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and 12,15. sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the Ezek. 23,

the prophets.

17.
ch. 22, 16.

23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, where-word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants e Lev. 26, in this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. 24 Moreover, the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the intages, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the "law which were Deut. 18,12. written in the book that * Hilkiah the priest found in x ch. 22, 8. the house of the LORD.

John 2, 17.

u Lev. 20,

25 And like unto him was there no king before him, 155.6, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all ch. 18, 5. his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law Kings 2, of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him. 26a Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was Ser 3,5, 10. kindled against Judah, because of all the † provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.

g ch. 23, 26.

3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came Jer. 25, 9. this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight for fch. 17, 18. the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,) which 24 the LORD would not pardon.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

6 So Jehoiakim * slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more 1 Isa. 31, 3. out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken, from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, " all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

81 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

m Josh. 13,

1 Kings 8,

buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of
the land took || Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anoint-of

sed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

and Shal

31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when Mat. 1, 11. he began to reign; and he reigned three months in a verse 33. Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal,

r ch. 25, 27

12 And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king That is, Babylon took him in the eighth year of || his reign. Nebuchad 13 And he carried out thence * all the treasures of verse 7. house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's chap 25, house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Jer. 27, 18, Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the 20, 21. & 38. LORD, as the LORD had said.

the