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2 Kings 18:30

in 2 Kings 18

Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

KJV

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.

This verse in 2 Kings 18

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 18:19 · Written before 373.

As I have already said, Sennacherib is a type of the devil, and this hypothesis is perfectly confirmed by the words that in this passage the Rabshakeh boastfully speaks against God when he makes false promises to the people, trying to take away from [God] …

This site's exposition

called out loudly in Hebrew

on 2 Kings 18:28-32

The Rabshakeh "called out loudly in Hebrew". Verse 32 admits the plan is deportation, "a land like your own", the Assyrian resettlement carried out on Israel in verse 11. "Do not let Hezekiah deceive you" and "Do not listen to Hezekiah" make the appeal a contest for the people's loyalty.

This site's exposition

persuade you to trust

Rabshakeh turns Hezekiah's own assurance against the people. 2 Chronicles 32:8 records Hezekiah telling his commanders that the LORD was with them to fight their battles. Trust is the word verse 5 used of Hezekiah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

His great piety, which was the more wonderful because his father was very wicked and vile, one of the worst of the kings, yet he was one of the best, which may intimate to us that what good there is in any is not of nature, but of grace, free grace, sovereign grace, which, contrary to nature, grafts into the good olive that which was wild by nature ( Rom. xi.

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The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַל־and may not

    veal-H408 →724 times

  • יַבְטַ֨חhe make trust

    yavtachH982 →120 times

  • אֶתְכֶ֤ם<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֙הוּ֙Hezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הַצֵּ֥לcertainly <to deliver>

    hatzelH5337 →212 times

  • יַצִּילֵ֖נוּhe will deliver us

    yatzilenuH5337 →212 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְלֹ֤אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תִנָּתֵן֙it will be given

    tinatenH5414 →2011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעִ֣ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • בְּיַ֖דin [the] hand of

    beyadH3027 →1618 times

  • מֶ֥לֶךְ[the] king of

    melekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אַשּֽׁוּר׃Assyria

    ʾashurH804 →151 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 71:9

    Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.

    it leads to

    • 2 Timothy 1:12

      For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have…

    • Isaiah 46:4

      Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and…

    • Psalms 71:18

      Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

  • Through

    Psalms 4:2

    How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 1:22

      “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

    • Hosea 4:7

      The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

  • Through

    Psalms 11:1

    In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

    it leads to

    • Psalms 56:11

      in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

    • Isaiah 26:3–4

      You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

    • 1 Samuel 23:14

      And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Berean Standard Bible, 2 Chronicles 32:8; Ephrem the Syrian, ON THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS 18:19; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.