Isaiah 36:1 BSB — MannaFest

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16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֡י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
בְּאַרְבַּע֩	be.'ar.Ba'	in four-	H702 →
עֶשְׂרֵ֨ה	'es.Reh	teen	H6240 →
שָׁנָ֜ה	sha.Nah	year	H8141 →
לַמֶּ֣לֶךְ	la.Me.lekh	of the king	H4428 →
חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ	chiz.ki.Ya.hu	Hezekiah	H2396 →
עָלָ֞ה	'a.Lah	he went up	H5927 →
סַנְחֵרִ֤יב	san.che.Riv	Sennacherib	H5576 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
אַשּׁוּר֙	'a.Shur	Assyria	H804 →
עַ֣ל	'al	on	H5921 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
עָרֵ֧י	'a.Rei	[the] cities of	H5892 →
יְהוּדָ֛ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
הַבְּצֻר֖וֹת	ha.be.tzu.Rot	<the> fortified	H1219 →
וַֽיִּתְפְּשֵֽׂם׃	Vai.yit.pe.Sem	and he seized them	H8610 →

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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…
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…
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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.
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.
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…

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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.2 Kings 18:13In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.2 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.Isaiah 10:28–32Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.Isaiah 1:7–8Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.Isaiah 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.Isaiah 33:7–8Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.Isaiah 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 Chronicles 12:4He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.Isaiah 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.Isaiah 33:8The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.Isaiah 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!”

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.
Luckenbill, Annals of Sennacherib (OIP 2, 1924); E. Mazar, Ophel Excavations (2015)

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