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2 Kings 20:16

in 2 Kings 20

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah.

KJV

And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.

This verse in 2 Kings 20

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But, after the destruction of Sennacherib, presents were brought him from various quarters, out of respect to a king who, by his faith and prayer, saved his country; and besides, it is by no means improbable that from the corpses in the Assyrian camp, all the gold and silver he had paid might be recovered.

This site's exposition

Hear the word of the Lord

on 2 Kings 20:16-18

Hear the word of the Lord opens the sentence, and it falls in the plainest terms: all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up, shall be carried into Babylon, nothing left, and Hezekiah's own sons taken to serve as eunuchs in a Babylonian palace. The judgment answers the display of this chapter rather than causing the exile outright; the bench reads Manasseh's later idolatry as the deeper cause, this word standing as a first, plain naming of where the road already led. Babylon has appeared in this book before as a source of colonists for Samaria at 17:24; here for the first time in Kings it is named as the destroyer Judah's own treasures will travel to.

The words behind it

7 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.

  • וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּIsaiah

    yesha'yahuH347039 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּHezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396127 times

  • שְׁמַ֖עhear

    shema'H80851159 times

  • דְּבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H16971440 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 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

    2 Kings 7:1

    Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel,…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 3:5

      Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

    • Exodus 16:12

      “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the…

    • Ezekiel 37:4

      And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!

    • 1 Samuel 11:9

      So they said to the messengers who had come, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” And when the messengers relayed this to the…

    • Exodus 9:5–6

      The LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”

  • Through

    1 Kings 22:19

    Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.

    it leads to

    • Job 2:1

      On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

    • Job 1:6

      One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

    • Daniel 7:9–10

      As I continued to watch, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head was like pure wool.…

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Kings

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.