Isaiah 36:19 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 36:19

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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ASV

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

KJV

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad?.... What is become of them? where are they to be found? where's their power to protect and defend the people they presided over? thus they might be justly derided, but not so the God at Israel; these places are mentioned in Isa 10:

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The history related here, and in the three following chapters, is, almost in the same words contained 2 Kings 18, 19, 20. It is inserted here, to explain and confirm some of the foregoing predictions.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Where are the gods of Hamath ... - In regard to these places, see the notes at Isa 10:9-11. Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? - Sepharvaim was probably in Mesopotamia. Ptolemy mentions a city there of the name of Sipphara, as the most southern city of Mesopotamia, which is probably the same. It is evident that it was in the vicinity of Hamath and Arphad, and these are known to have been in Mesopotamia.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַיֵּ֞ה	'ai.Yeh	where?	H346 →
אֱלֹהֵ֤י	'e.lo.Hei	[were] [the] gods of	H430 →
חֲמָת֙	cha.Mat	Hamath	H2574 →
וְאַרְפָּ֔ד	ve.'ar.Pad	and Arpad	H774 →
אַיֵּ֖ה	'ai.Yeh	where?	H346 →
אֱלֹהֵ֣י	'e.lo.Hei	[were] [the] gods of	H430 →
סְפַרְוָ֑יִם	se.far.Va.yim	Sepharvaim	H5617 →
וְכִֽי־	ve.khi-	and if	H3588 →
הִצִּ֥ילוּ	hi.Tzi.lu	they have delivered	H5337 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שֹׁמְר֖וֹן	sho.me.Ron	Samaria	H8111 →
מִיָּדִֽי׃	mi.ya.Di	from hand my	H3027 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
leads to
- 2 Kings 18:34
  Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 10:9
  “Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Isaiah 57:20
  But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
- Genesis 14:15
  During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
- Genesis 15:2
  But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Through
2 Samuel 8:9
When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer,
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 8:4
  He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.
- 1 Kings 8:65
  So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…
Through
2 Kings 17:24
Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in…
leads to
- Matthew 10:5
  These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.

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Where the connections lead

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Isaiah