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Isaiah 36:1

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In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

KJV

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

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This verse in Isaiah 36

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

on Isaiah 36:1-2

I read in a certain Commentary that the same person is Sennacherib who also captured Samaria, which is completely false. For the Sacred History recounts that first Phul, the king of the Assyrians, devastated the ten tribes under Manahen, the king of Israel. Secondly, Theglathphalasar came against Samaria under Phacee, the son of Romelia of Israel. Salmanasar, under the reign of King Hoshea of Israel, captured the entire city of Samaria. Sargon is said to be the fourth king who captured Ashdod. Asarhaddon, the fifth king, relocated Israel and sent the Samaritans as guardians to the land of Judah.

This site's exposition

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah

on Isaiah 36:1-3

The narrative bridge begins here and runs to chapter 39, four chapters that share their text nearly word for word with 2 Kings 18 through 20, the notes naming the sharing once rather than reopening the comparison at every verse. Sennacherib king of Assyria has already taken the defenced cities of Judah when he sends Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem with a great army, and the delegation is met at a precise and rememberable place, the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field, the same spot named in 2 Kings 18:17. Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah come out to answer for Hezekiah, three officers named here and named again through the chapter, the king himself staying inside the walls while his household bears the confrontation.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah - Of his reign, 709 b.c. That Sennacherib - Sennacherib was son and successor of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and began to reign A.M. 3290, or 714 b.c., and reigned, according to Calmet, but four years, according to Prideaux eight years, and according to Gesenius eighteen years. The immediate occasion of this war against Judah was the fact that Hezekiah had shaken off the yoke of Assyria, by which his father Ahaz and the nation had suffered so much under Tiglath-pileser, or Shalmaneser 2Ki 18:

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיְהִ֡יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • בְּאַרְבַּע֩in four-

    bearba'H702 →318 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֨הteen

    ʾesrehH6240 →

  • שָׁנָ֜הyear

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • לַמֶּ֣לֶךְof the king

    lamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּHezekiah

    chizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • עָלָ֞הhe went up

    ʾalahH5927 →890 times

  • סַנְחֵרִ֤יבSennacherib

    sancherivH5576 →13 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • אַשּׁוּר֙Assyria

    ʾashurH804 →151 times

  • עַ֣לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עָרֵ֧י[the] cities of

    ʾareiH5892 →1090 times

  • יְהוּדָ֛הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת<the> fortified

    habetzurotH1219 →37 times

  • וַֽיִּתְפְּשֵֽׂם׃and he seized them

    vaiyitpesemH8610 →

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

Related verses

12 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 32:1After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.6 works2 Kings 18:13In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.5 works2 Kings 18:17Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.3 worksIsaiah 10:28–32Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.3 worksIsaiah 1:7–8Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.2 worksIsaiah 8:7–8the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates—the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.2 works
The other 6 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 33:7–8Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.2 worksIsaiah 7:17The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”2 works2 Chronicles 12:4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.2 worksIsaiah 19:17The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.2 worksIsaiah 33:8The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.2 worksIsaiah 42:22But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”2 works

Where this verse connects

1 approved connection.

  • What the spade turned up

    2 Kings 18:13

    Hezekiah's reign externally anchored: Sennacherib's Prisms + Lachish reliefs (701 BC campaign) and the scientifically-excavated Ophel Hezekiah bulla; grounds the reformer-king of the Nehushtan panel as a real, datable figure.

    Source: Luckenbill, Annals of Sennacherib

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 18:17

    Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 20:20

      As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in…

    • Isaiah 20:1

      Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,

    • Isaiah 7:3

      Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,

    • Isaiah 36:2

      And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the…

  • Through

    2 Kings 18:13

    In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 36:1–22

      In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 32:1

    After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 18:13–37

      In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

    • Isaiah 10:5–11

      Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

    • 2 Kings 17:6

      In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…

Where this verse is studied

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Isaiah: the study guide →Read Isaiah 36 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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