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2 Kings 18:33

in 2 Kings 18

Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

KJV

Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

This verse in 2 Kings 18

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
The boast is natural. The Assyrians had had an uninterrupted career of success, and might well believe that their gods were more powerful than those of the nations with whom they had warred. It is not surprising that they did not understand that their successes hitherto had been allowed by the very God, Yahweh, against whom they were now boasting themselves.

This site's exposition

Has the god of any nation ever delivered

on 2 Kings 18:33-35

"Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land" is the speech's argument from history. Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah are each offered as proof that no god has stopped Assyria. The argument assumes the LORD is one more national god, the point chapters 18 and 19 answer.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

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] …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

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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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The tradition of the Jews is that Rabshakeh was an apostate Jew, which made him so ready in the Jews' language; if so, his ignorance of the God of Israel was the less excusable and his enmity the less strange, for apostates are commonly the most bitter and spiteful enemies, witness Julian.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • הַהַצֵּ֥ל¿ really <to deliver>

    hahatzelH5337 →212 times

  • הִצִּ֛ילוּhave they delivered

    hitziluH5337 →212 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֥י[the] gods of

    ʾeloheiH430 →2601 times

  • הַגּוֹיִ֖םthe nations

    hagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • אִ֣ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אַרְצ֑וֹland its

    ʾartzoH776 →2504 times

  • מִיַּ֖דfrom [the] hand of

    miyadH3027 →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

5 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

    2 Chronicles 32:19

    They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 2:8

      Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.

    • 2 Kings 19:18

      They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.

    • Job 15:25–26

      For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

    • Deuteronomy 4:28

      And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

    • Hosea 8:5–6

      He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.
Jews Mourning in Exile, Eduard Bendemann, 1832, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.