2 Kings 18:33
in 2 Kings 18Has 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?
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This verse in 2 Kings 18
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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
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
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 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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַהַצֵּ֥ל | hahatzel | ¿ really <to deliver> | H5337 → | 212 times |
| הִצִּ֛ילוּ | hitzilu | have they delivered | H5337 → | 212 times |
| אֱלֹהֵ֥י | ʾelohei | [the] gods of | H430 → | 2601 times |
| הַגּוֹיִ֖ם | hagoyim | the nations | H1471 → | 561 times |
| אִ֣ישׁ | ʾish | anyone | H376 → | 1663 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אַרְצ֑וֹ | ʾartzo | land its | H776 → | 2504 times |
| מִיַּ֖ד | miyad | from [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| מֶ֥לֶךְ | melekh | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אַשּֽׁוּר׃ | ʾashur | Assyria | H804 → | 151 times |
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 stopsEach 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 32:19They 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?
- Isaiah 2:8
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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.
